Thanks to the enormous generosity of a very good friend of the Spill, our Thurber original collection doubled in size recently, from one drawing to two — or has it tripled to three? The piece is unusual in that both sides contain original Thurber drawings. As you can see there’s an issue date on the piece: Aug 26,1939. Here’s how
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Just when I thought I’d seen every Thurber cover story, along came the issue of The Saturday Review shown here: Within the issue is a great review (shown below) of The Thurber Carnival by William Rose Benet, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and the fellow who founded The Saturday Review (the Thurber portrait on the cover is a wood engraving by
Read moreI love being surprised on my daily jaunts through Ebay. The below, Love Is A Funny Business, is an example of one such surprise. Hitherto unseen (by me), it features interesting cover art and is credited to “The Kings Of Hilarity.” The Kings are big names: Frank Sullivan, E.B. White, Arthur Kober, and of course, the fellow celebrated here every
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Many Moons It may seem odd that someone, such as myself, who holds Thurber’s work in the highest of the highest regard would not have a complete collection of his books. Although the Spill library does have all of Thurber’s books (published in the United States) it has always troubled me that I never got around to acquiring a hard
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