NY: Simon & Schuster, 1970. 1st Edition. Hardcover. DEDICATION COPY from author and Village Voice film critic to his editor and publisher Village Voice founding editor Dan Wolfe. Sarris (1928 - 2012) was the film critic at the Voice beginning in 1960, and the leading proponent of the auteur theory..... More
NY: The New York Historical Society, 1938. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An apparently unused or little used copy, near fine in original blue cloth, gte, gilt spine titles, 8vo, xxvi, 246, illustrated with B&w photos throughout. More
NY: Harper & Row, 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Published posthumously the year following Thurber's death with an introduction by Thurber's wife Helen. Inscribed by her to close friends "with love appreciation and more than a little nostalgia Helen December 1962" Slight fading to bottom of spine in very nice unclipped..... More
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1950. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Thurber on the half-title: "Merry Christmas to xxx from the Thurbers 1950 James Thurber" . Cloth spine lightly stained soiled, covers moderately soiled in price clipped better dustjacket. More
NY: Harcourt Brace, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Thurber on the half-title: "Merry Christmas and Love to xxxx and xxx Jim and Helen" Cloth lightly stained at foot of spine not affecting in a price-clipped dustjacket with some wear about edges and corners. 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
NY: Harcourt Brace, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Thurber on the half-title: "Merry Christmas to xx from the Thurbers James Thurber". Cloth a bit at spine in unclipped dustjacket with some wear about edges and corners. More
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1950. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Thurber on the half-title: "Merry Christmas to xx from the Thurbers 1950 James Thurber". Book about good, lightly stained/soiled on spine and some edges moderately worn in price-clipped dustjacket chipped about edges. More
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1955. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the half title by Thurber to close friends "To xxxx WITH LOVE Helen and Jim th" in black wax pencil with a drawing by him of the dog that is also on the dustjacket cover. Cloth spine lightly stained at..... 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
Oxford: Clarendon Presss, 1955. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Complete set, near fine books (apparently unread) , in price-clipped dustjacket, with some chipped edges here and there. With these 6 volumes is John Evelyn and His Familt by W. G. Hiscock, published in a very similar format as the diaries by..... More
Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co, 1908. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first state. blue cloth, pictorial pastedown, 16 color plates and numerous in-text illustrations by Neill. Spine reads "The Reilly & Britton Co.". Three titles on verso of half title, 256 pp. Owner bookplate verso ffe, and same name..... More
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1924. Hardcover. A complete, 12 volume set of the Thornton Edition, in original green cloth with gilt decorations and titles to spine, gte, sides untrimmed. Internals gently toned, as is usually seen. Re-issue of the Thornton Edition first published beginning in 1898. Gilt to spines a tad..... More
Atlanta: Albert Love Enterprises, 1943. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Magazine format, heavily illustrated with loads of photographs and chronology in rear from the Command's formation in 1940 with the fall of France to the Germans through July 15, 1943. Scarce. WorldCat lists 3 copies. More
NY: Brentano's, 1941. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy in like dustjacket. Inscribed by author Parr on the fee and dated Hartford May 1942. More
NY: Sun Dial Press, 1935. Reprint Edition and First Thus. Hardcover. Well, it almost did or still could. Reprint copy from Doubleday's imprint Sun Dial Press that replicates graphically stunning dustjacket of first edition. Near fine copy all around. More
NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1935. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Well, it almost did or still could. Reading copy. Worn corners, black cloth, ring-stain front cover. More
London/ NY: Ernest Nister/ E. P. Dutton. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Presumed first or early edition. Large 4t0, chromolithographed pictorial covers, pages disbound. No author identified, nor year of publication. c. 1880-90. Distinctive movable with 8 movable plates, plus text illustrated with line drawings, so that when a tab is pulled..... More
NY: The Macmillan Company, 1916. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Pictorial blue cloth, stamped in white, orange and black. Covers and edges worn. Paste on ff is newspaper cliipping of a lengthy interviews of Jack London's widow from the farm in Sonoma Valley CA on which this title was based, where the..... More
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Rebinding copy of one of the best American novels of all time, Boards worn, spine shaken and cocked, binding loosening. Internals very nice. More
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
Paris: Editionss du Seuil. Soft cover. Undated ,but likely a mid1950s edition, in French, uniquely inscribed in French by James Thurber with his acerbic wit on the free front endpaper "Allons donc, Dr. Kinsey! James Thurber". The French phrase is a colloquial dismissive comment, roughly meaning sarcastically something like "Oh........ More
Louisville: John P. Morton & Company, 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First hand account of a massive flood that ravaged parts of Kentucky's Ohio Valley in winter 1937. Green cloth, gilt titles, 54 pages. More
Edinburgh; London: Caledonian Mercury Press for Oliphant, Waugh and Innes, and Longman, Huirts, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1817. 1st Edition. Scarce first edition, metaphysical meanderings of Baron Mackenzie, leading to biological questions about the size of the brain and intelleigence, among other things. Rebound in full mottled leather, gilt rules..... More
Barcelona: Edicions de L'Eixample S.A, 1984. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Full title Comediants Pesenta Sol Solet : Version libre, sensorial, cosmica y literaria del espectaculo SOL SOLET. La idea Y la ralizadicion son obra de COMEDIANTS. Second edition 1984 after the first of 1983, square 4to, metal covers with stamped pictorial..... More