Accession number
PML 198904
Creator
Thurber, James, 1894-1961.
Published
Boston ; Toronto : Little, Brown and Company, [1959]
Credit line
Purchased on the Edwin V. Erbe Acquisitions Fund, 2022.
Description
[v], vi-viii, [3], 4-310 pages, 1 leaf of plate : illustrations, portrait (photograph) ; 22 x 15 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Ownership inscription on front free endpaper: D. J. Lobrano, June 1959.
Provenance
Dorothy Lobrano Guth (1928-2016); Dorothy Jean Guth.
Binding
Quarter black cloth stamped in gold with six-pointed stars and lettering on the spine, with rose paper-covered sides stamped on upper board with a vignette of a tugboat in New York harbor, set against the skyline; in pictorial lime green, red, and black dust jacket; author's photograph on back by Cecil Beaton; on front flap, “YWR $5.00” at upper right corner; on back flap, “A BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB SELECTION” at foot; photograph of Harold Ross on front dust jacket flap by Fabian Bachrach.
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