A Thurber Introduction To The Wizard Of Oz Just the other day a never-before-seen by-me 1960 paperback copy of The Wizard Of Oz turned up in a search. As you see, Introduction By James Thurber is featured on the paperback’s cover. On the copyright page there’s this: The piece, “The Wizard
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I often browse the internet looking at original Thurber drawings (the ones online were usually sold at auction). I noticed, some time back this pair of Thurbers that sold back in 2011: I’ve always wondered where they fit in the Thurber timeline. It wasn’t until this evening, while going through the Michael Rosen Thurber files, that I came across a
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Wandering around Ebay, I came across an unknown (to me) Thurber piece, “I Can’t Make Anything Work” in a magazine, For Men (June 1939). According to Edwin Bowden’s Thurber Bibliography, this was its only appearance (i.e., not collected). Oddly(?), a piece titled, “I Break Everything I Touch” was published in 1941 in another magazine, The Man. That piece is included
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An oddity! Thurber’s drawing on the cover of Sports Illustrated (November 7, 1960) seems to have eluded Edwin Bowden’s essential James Thurber: A Bibliography. It also does not merit a mention in any of my other go-to Thurber books (the biographies and letters books). The one place it is mentioned, and appears, is the fab A Mile and A Half Of Lines:
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