Latest Addition To The Spill Library… Let’s see, how many variations are there of Thurber’s 1937 collection, Let Your Mind Alone! Too many for me to count at the moment. I will show a few of them though — the earlier editions, including one that’s making its way, via the mail, to Spill headquarters. One edition shown here that is
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The completist part of me was pleased to finally get hold of James Thurber’s The Great Quillow the other day. It was the only remaining dust-jacketed Thurber title (US title, that is*) missing from the Spill library; I’ve had a jacket-less copy of The Great Quillow for many years. Admittedly, I was in no great hurry to get hold of
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I recently came across the below ad for Webster’s Dictionary (it appeared in Time, February 3, 1958) — until the other day I’d never seen it before. It’s different than so many Thurber ads as it does not contain any Thurber drawings (I’ve shown a few of those for comparison). Perhaps, this being an ad for a dictionary, it seemed
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Hardly a week goes by that something turns up, Thurber-wise, on Ebay, that I’ve never seen before. Case in point: this article by Doug Ermini for the April/May 1992 issue of Timeline Magazine (a Ohio Historical Society publication). Not just a page or two on Thurber, but ten, with numerous Thurber drawings, and photographs. If you’re new to Thurber and
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