This is an auction for FOLIO SOCIETY: THE GENIUS OF JAMES THURBER.

This is a Folio Society book, with its original slip case..

For the contents, see the photographs.

From Wikipedia:

"James Grover Thurber (1894–1961) was an American author, cartoonist and celebrated wit. Thurber was best known for his cartoons and short stories, published mainly in The New Yorker magazine then collected in his numerous books. One of the most popular humourists of his time, Thurber celebrated the comic frustrations and eccentricities of ordinary people... While Thurber was able to sketch out his cartoons in the usual fashion in the 1920s and 1930s, his failing eyesight later required him to draw them on very large sheets of paper using a thick black crayon (also, on black paper using white chalk, from which they were photographed and the colours reversed for publication). Regardless of method, his cartoons became as noted as his writings... Many of his short stories are humorous fictional memoirs from his life, but he also wrote darker material. His best-known short stories are "The Dog That Bit People" and "The Night the Bed Fell"; they can be found in My Life and Hard Times, which was his "break-out" book. Among his other classics are The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Catbird Seat, A Couple of Hamburgers, The Greatest Man in the World, If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox. The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze has several short stories with a tense undercurrent of marital discord. The book was published the year of his divorce and remarriage..."

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Folio Society hardback 1997.

256 pages.

Illustrations by the author throughout.

New condition.

The cost of shipping is $8.95.

There is of course no charge for shipping if you collect this book from my shop in Palmerston North following the auction.

Payment within seven days, please.