first edition
1939 · New York
by THURBER, James
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1939. First Edition. Oblong quarto (20.25x27.75cm.); original boards in orange pictorial dust jacket; unpaged; illus. and text printed within pale blue border throughout. Jacket darkened, extremities rather rubbed with a 1.5-inch tear to bottom edge of upper panel with minor creasing, boards very slightly shelf-worn, else Very Good in Good or better jacket. Bittersweet parable of the world after World War XII in which a man and woman nurture the earth's last flower. (Inventory #: 22951)