Some Other Thurbers Books by Thurber, including such familiar titles as My Life and Hard Times, and The Thurber Carnival, are the foundation of any Thurber collection. But Thurber also illustrated a number of books for others. Major beneficiaries of Thurber art are shown above (and below). I’m showing various In A Word covers simply because I love them all.
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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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As with so much new-to-me New Yorker material, new-to-me James Thurber material keeps popping up. A for instance: His introduction to New Yorker writer Mary Mian’s 1947 novel, My Country-In-Law (the title ever-so-vaguely reminiscent of Gary Shteyngart’s Our Country Friends, published in 2021). I bought a copy of Ms. Mian’s book not knowing how long the Thurber intro would be
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Latest Addition To The Spill Library: Cream Of Thurber I put off acquiring the 1939 UK collection, The Cream Of Thurber for many years, but finally caved last week when thinking about the paperback edition, published in 1948; the simplicity of the cover design was (suddenly!) appealing.
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