NY: Harper & Brothers, 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Thurber's anti-war parable, told in pictures, siigned by him on front pastedown and then also inscribed by him "many happy returns" to close family friends in Cornwall CT (where the Thurbers had a home) and signed "James, Helen and Rosie" on the..... More
NY: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1942. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, second printing of one of Thurber's more popular titles, decades later the basis for the 1969-1970, NBC television comedy series of the same title that won a 1970 Emmy Award as the year's best comedy series. Inscribed by Thurber..... More
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Thurber on the half-title: "Happy Birthday to xx from the Thurbers" and also plainly signed " James Thurber" on the pastedown. . Cloth over soien with some loss and tends and revealed at hinges, still firmly bound in supplied unclipped..... More
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1955. 1st Edition. Hardcover. In the preface, Thurber describes his garland as A "weedy bouquet" - 28 cartoons, published in London with no American edition. The nicest copy we have seen, almost as new, issued without dustjacket and housed, as issued, in a brown cardboard mailing box..... More
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1955. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very nice first edition inscribed by Thurber on the ffe with black wax pencil (the kind he preferred to draw with) to married couple friends of him and his wife Helen in Cornwall, Connecticut, where the Thurbers had a country house and..... More
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1953. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, inscribed Merry Christmas in 1953, year of publication, by Thurber for himself and wife Helen in blue ink in Thurber's exuberant hand on the ffe to married couple friends of him and his wife Helen in Cornwall CT, where the..... More
Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1981. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First trade edition. Inscribed by Thurber's widow, Helen, to close friends "love and Merry Christmas" on the ffe and dated December 1981. Cloth spine faded in unclipped very good dustjacket. More