A Promotional Booklet For “The Years With Ross”
I’ve seen this promotional booklet — and only this one copy — for James Thurber’s wonderful The Years With Ross listed online for a number of years. I love the look of it; the Harold Ross photos by Cornell Capa are great. The seller tells us that the booklet is 16 pages (booklet size: 8 1/4″ x 10 14/16″…so precise!).
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A fuller photo of several of Capa’s Ross photos, along with an article, appear here in the December 1949 LIFE magazine.
You might ask: did Cornell Capa ever photograph Thurber? Not that I can find. however, he did photograph an ABC production of Thurber’s 13 Clocks for LIFE.
The original (1959)Years With Ross cover below left, and the 2000 edition using a Capa Ross photo.
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Thurber’s A-Z Spill Entry:
James Thurber Born, Columbus, Ohio, December 8, 1894. Died 1961, New York City. New Yorker work: 1927 -1961, with several pieces run posthumously. According to the New Yorker’s legendary editor, William Shawn, “In the early days, a small company of writers, artists, and editors — E.B. White, James Thurber, Peter Arno, and Katharine White among them — did more to make the magazine what it is than can be measured.”
Key cartoon collection: The Seal in the Bedroom and Other Predicaments (Harper & Bros., 1932). Key anthology (writings & drawings): The Thurber Carnival (Harper & Row, 1945). There have been a number of Thurber biographies. Burton Bernstein’s Thurber (Dodd, Mead, 1975) and Harrison Kinney’s James Thurber: His Life and Times (Henry Holt & Co., 1995) are essential. Website