There are but seven illustrations in Frank Case’s 1938 Tales Of A Wayward Inn — the “Wayward Inn” being The Algonquin Hotel (Mr. Case owned the place back in the Round Table days). Below is one of the seven: James Thurber’s take on the Algonquin’s lounge.
According to Harrison Kinney’s Thurber bio, Thurber only attended one Round Table gathering (along with his pal, E.B.White), but the hotel was an anchor — not quite a semi-residence — for him for many many years (he wrote The Last Flower there…in one sitting).
The Tales Of A Wayward Inn’s publisher obviously loved Thurber’s drawing enough to lift out one of the Algonquin lobby loungers and place her in an ad for the book:
On a personal note, whenever I think of Mr. Cases’s book, I think of this copy in the Spill library, donated many years ago by the great Jack Ziegler, “the godfather of contemporary New Yorker cartoonists.”
Did Thurber ever remark on why he attended only one Round Table ?
Kinney’s Thurber bio suggests that by the time Thurber & White attended that one time, the Round Table scene seemed a bit (my word) formulaic — i.e.,not what it once was.