Latest Addition To The Spill Library: The Last Flower A big thank you to Sara Thurber Sauers for this University of Iowa Press edition of James Thurber’s The Last Flower. Originally published in November of 1939 by Harper’s, The Last Flower has shown itself to “have legs.” Legend, according to Thurber himself, has it that the entire book was completed
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Die Letzte Blume Yet another foreign edition of a Thurber title is now in the Spill library. Die Letzte Blume, published in June of 1953, is a German version of Thurber’s classic, The Last Flower. This slim paperback also includes Fables For Our Time. The German edition (shown below) is one of the very few times the cover in no
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Thurber’s Favorite Thurber Book (And E.B. White’s Favorite Thurber Book) — This account derived from Burton Bernstein’s Thurber: A Biography, and Harrison Kinney’s James Thurber: His Life and Hard Times, and Edwin Bowden’s James Thurber: A Bibliography It was September of 1939; Germany had invaded Poland the first day of the month. Thurber and his wife, Helen, were
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Many many years ago, before I began holding onto every New Yorker-centric thing that came my way, I gave my first edition copy of Thurber’s 1939 classic, The Last Flower to a friend (the friend who showed me the very first Thurber drawing I’d ever seen). Over the years I stayed away from re-acquiring a first edition (I did acquire
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