Further Fables for Our Time

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1956. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition, stated "Special Printing". About fine in mildly sunned else near fine illustrated slipcase (issued without dust jacket). A follow-up to Thurber's excellent 1940 collection *Fables for Our Time*, with 47 new fables including ten printed here for the first time (the others appeared in *The New Yorker*). Inscribed in pencil by Thurber to Peter De Vries and his wife Katinka, Thurber's close friend and colleague at *The New Yorker*. Thurber was nearly blind and his infirmity is reflected in the difficulty of transcribing the inscription, here's our best guess: "Merry Christmas to Pete & Katinka from Jim & Helen." Thurber had convinced De Vries to leave his job at *Poetry Magazine* (where De Vries had met his poet-wife, Katinka) to go to *The New Yorker.*.