Beast In Me and Other Animals
by Thurber, James
These twenty-three humorous stories and essays and more than one hundred illustrations find James Thurber in absolutely top form. The book concludes with a sampling of articles Thurber wrote for the New Yorker’s “The Talk of the Town,” demonstrating his often overlooked skill as a reporter.
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The Beast in Me and Other Animals
by James Thurber
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New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1948. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. James Thurber. A FULL-PAGE INSCRIPTION FROM JAMES THURBER on the front free endpaper. A solid copy to boot of the 1948 stated 1st edition. Tight and VG (with mild sunning at the spine ends) in a bright, price-clipped, slightly-cropped dustjacket, with very light soiling to the panels.… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE BEAST IN ME AND OTHER ANIMALS
by Thurber, James
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New York: Harcourt Brace & Co. Very Good in Good dust jacket; First state. 55: burn, 63: President. Book . has a gift inscription to the front endpaper and some fading along top . edge. Jacket is chipped (3 largish) and soiled and is protected in a mylar . cover.. 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Item Price
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The Beast In Me And Other Animals: A New Collection Of Pieces And Drawings About Human Beings And Less Alarming Creatures
by James Thurber
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Hamish Hamilton, 1955. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. Hardback reprint, 19819558, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good used condition with minor signs of age, handling and storage - dust jacket rubbed and tanned to spine and edges (now protected); boards clean and crisp. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions - ownership signature… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Light offsetting on rear endpapers from a clipped, else fine in just about fine dust jacket with a little foxing on the spine. A much nicer than usual copy. Item Price
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948. First edition, 8vo, pp. x, [2], 340; first few leaves have indent remnants from old paper clip, slight lean, jacket has some edgewear, else very good in original green cloth, pictorial yellow dust jacket. Item Price
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The Beast in Me and Other Animals.
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THURBER, JAMES. The Beast in Me and Other Animals. Illustrated. 8vo. Original pictorial green cloth, spine faded, in pictorial dust wrapper. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company (1948). First Edition.
Presentation copy, inscribed on the front endpaper, "For Pooz and Ruth Happy days Don't tease the animals Jim Jano / Thurber."
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. 340 pages. Another humorous collection of short works and drawings, many of which first appeared in the New Yorker. A clean near fine copy with a gift inscription on the front free endpaper in a bright near fine price clipped dust jacket with some very minor wear. Item Price
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The Beast In Me And Other Animals
by James Thurber
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Hamish Hamilton, 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: James Thurber. Book Green cloth, b/w line drawings. Spine slightly browned. A few marks to covers. Name in ink to front endpaper. Item Type: Book. No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: James Thurber.. Category: Literature & Literary; Humour. Please contact H4o Books if you require images… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Beast in Me and Other Animals: A New Collection of Pieces and Drawings About Human Beings and Less Alarming Creatures
by THURBER, James
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Spine and edges sunned and tanned, very good lacking the dustwrapper. Item Price
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by Thurber, James
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Harmondsworth: Penguin Books 1646 1961 First Penguin Paperback Printing , 1961 VG. Item Price
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The Beast in Me And Other Animals: A New Collection of Pieces and Drawings about Human Beings and Less Alarming Creatures
by Thurber, James
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- 1949
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melbourne, Victoria, AUS
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£7.97
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Hamish Hamilton, London, 1949. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: James Thurber. foreword by author. The text is illustrated with cartoons drawn by the author throughout. Green coloured cloth covered boards with black coloured illustration to the lower right-hand corner of the front panel and black coloured titles and illustration to the backstrip. … Read more about this item Item Price
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The Beast in me, and Other Animals: A New Collection of Pieces and Drawings About Human Beings and Less Alarming Creatures
by James Thurber
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, GBR
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Penguin Books, 1961. Paperback. Good. 1961. No Edition Noted. 317 pages. Illustrated paper cover with black and white illustrations throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing… Read more about this item Item Price
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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1949. Hardcover in good condition, with clipped dust jacket in acceptable condition. Jacket is marked and worn, and edges are creased and nicked, including a few chips and tears. Board corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed, and spine is cocked. Page block is tanned and foxed, as are the pastedowns and endpapers. A few pages… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Beast in Me and Other Animals: A New Collection of Pieces and Drawings About Human Beings and Less Alarming Creatures
by THURBER, James
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition, first state binding. Illustrated. Tiny bookseller ticket (Newbegin's, San Francisco) on rear pastedown, slight sunning on the spine, near fine in a very good dust jacket with short tears and tiny chips, and modest rubbing. Item Price
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The Beast in Me and Other Animals: A New Collection of Pieces and Drawings About Human Beings and Less Alarming Creatures
by THURBER, James
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- 1948
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 340pp. Illustrated. Topedge slightly soiled, spine and board edges sunned, corners and spine ends rubbed and fraying, about very good, lacking the dust jacket. Item Price
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The Beast in Me and Other Animals: A New Collection of Pieces and Drawings About Human Beings and Less Alarming Creatures
by THURBER, James
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- 1948
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition, first state binding. Near fine in a near very good dustwrapper with several modest chips and tears. Item Price
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The Beast in Me and Other Animals: A New Collection of Pieces and Drawings About Human Beings and Less Alarming Creatures
by THURBER, James
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- 1948
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition Illustrated. Slight sunning at the extremities, near fine in very good price-clipped and lightly foxed dust jacket.t. Item Price
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The Beast in Me and Other Animals: A New Collection of Pieces and Drawings About Human Beings and Less Alarming Creatures
by THURBER, James
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- 1949
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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1949. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. First English edition. Light but fairly large stain on front board, some foxing on the endpapers, very good in near fine dust jacket. Item Price
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The Beast In Me And Other Animals
by James Thurber
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- 1955
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, GBR
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Hamish Hamilton, 1955. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1955. Reprint. 340 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and… Read more about this item Item Price
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