A Promotional Booklet For “The Years With Ross” I’ve seen this promotional booklet — and only this one copy — for James Thurber’s wonderful The Years With Ross listed online for a number of years. I love the look of it; the Harold Ross photos by Cornell Capa are great. The seller tells us that the booklet is 16 pages (booklet
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E.B White and James Thurber — the names go together like soup and sandwich, or, um…horse and carriage. New Yorker history buffs will recall that Thurber’s first book, Is Sex Necessary, was co-authored with E.B. White, and that the two shared an office at The New Yorker in their earliest years at the magazine. It was White who fished a
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Latest Addition To The Spill Library: Ernst’s In A Word Illustrated By James Thurber Back in June, I posted a piece about coming across the only online image of a dust-jacketed copy of the (UK) Hamish Hamilton edition of Margaret Ernst’s 1939 In A Word (the book is generously illustrated with Thurber drawings). The online image showed only the front
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Thurber Thursday: Latest Addition To The Spill Archives…A Thurber Scarf Over the past few years I’ve followed the Richard Farrar New Yorker cartoon scarf pieces posted on Attempted Bloggery. Stephen Nadler, the person behind the AB‘s curtain has shown us scarves decorated with Thurber drawings, Anatol Kovarsky drawings, Mischa Richter drawings, William Steig drawings, and Charles Addams drawings (a recent
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