Last week I showed three James Thurber spot drawings that appeared in several early 1950s New Yorkers I came across in bound volumes. You might wonder why I’m talking about Thurber spot drawings when his spots appeared many many times in previous decades. The reason is that by the 1950s Thurber was no longer drawing work for publication. His TIME
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Three Spots This post was not going to be called “three spots” because I assumed I’d be finding more Thurber spots as I made my way through some recently purchased bound New Yorker volumes from the early 1950s. I got as far as these three yesterday when covid came-a-knockin and so had to put the volumes aside til another day.
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More Thurber From Stage Magazine What you’re seeing are James Thurber’s illustrations for his December 1936 Stage Magazine review of Noel Coward’s “Tonight At 8:30.” (cover below by Abe Birnbaum)* Harrison Kinney, in his massive and terrific Thurber biography, James Thurber: His Life And Times (Henry Holt, 1995), tells us this brief story about Thurber driving to Boston to see
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Latest Addition To The Spill Library…A UK Edition Of “The Seal In The Bedroom” Was pleased a few weeks ago to finally find an affordable copy of the UK 1951 edition of James Thurber’s first collection of drawings, originally published here by Harper & Brothers in 1932 (Hamish Hamilton published this 1951 edition). As far as I can tell —
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