The Thurber Letters
first edition Hardcover
2002
by Thurber, James
Simon and Schuster, 2002. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, first printing, fine in fine dust jacket. Large 8vo. 798 pp., including an index. Edited by Harrison Kinney, with Rosemary A. Thurber. Quarter bound in textured green paper boards over a tan cloth spine, with gilt-stamping to the spine. The fore-edge of the text block is attractively rough-cut. Illustrated with 8 glossy pages of black-and-white photographs, as well as black-and-white drawings by Thurber. The corners are sharp, the hinges are strong, and the text is clean and sharp throughout. The Fine pictorial dustwrapper retains the publisher's original price of $40.00 to the top-right corner of the front flap and bears no chips, creases, nor tears. A pristine copy of Thurber's collected letters. (Inventory #: ABE-1193153993)