THURBER COUNTRY A New Collection of Pieces About Males and Females, Mainly of Our Own Species
by THURBER, JAMES
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
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About This Item
U.S.A: Simon and Schuster, 1953. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. James Thurber. Type: Hardback Second Printing. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. No jacket. Delightful Thurber line sketches throughout. Light tan buckram over spine w/brown titles, with light brown paper-wrapped boards with "Thurber" imprinted on front board. Upper corner lightly bumped, faded area near upper edge, otherwise clean and unmarked. Tight and solid. Pages clean, no marks, toned. Most of the pieces in this book originally appeared in "The New Yorker". The rest of them were printed in other magazines--"The Bermudian", "Holiday" and "Cosmopolitan". The ones originally printed in "The Bremudian" (7) appear in this volume as their first publication in the US. Publisher: New York. Simon and Schuster, 1953.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002678
- Title
- THURBER COUNTRY A New Collection of Pieces About Males and Females, Mainly of Our Own Species
- Author
- THURBER, JAMES
- Illustrator
- James Thurber
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- U.S.A
- Date Published
- 1953
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- HUMOR; LITERATURE;
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