The Thurber Carnival

Harper & Bros, 1945 War Edition. NF/Good- Scarce, hard to find copy. Hard boards are in excellent, like new condition! Tight clean copy, no marks. Light brown boards illustrated with orange and black. Thurber and his wife on bunny rabbit carousel ride. Even spine is in excellent condition. Bright colors. DJ is present, but not in tack. It's in 4… Read more about this item

The Thurber Carnival, text and pictures by James Thurber, The Modern Library, 1957. Stated First Modern Library Edition. Grey cloth binding is tight with some bumping at corners and a worn place on bottom right edge of front board. Dust jacket is clipped and has come chips. Text clean and unmarked. Please see photos… Read more about this item

NY:: Harper & Brothers,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1945. Hardcover. With illustrations by the author. An early printing. INSCRIBED by James Thurber to Mary and Lester Walker (friends of the Thurbers in Cornwall, CT). Very good in a very good (moderate edge wear with a few shallow chips, age toning) dust… Read more about this item

Thurber, James. The Thurber Carnival. 1945, Harper & Brothers. First Edition, $4.50 dust jacket thus. Book and jacket Illustrated by the author.HUMOR. AMERICANA. Used VG/Good+ original unclipped dust jacket. Hard to find in a nice jacket like this. Grey boards with yellow spine. Pink/white/green DJ. Jacket states No. 9078A. 369 pages. 5 7/8 X 8 3/4.

[JAMES THURBER]. THE THURBER CARNIVAL. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1945. First Edition. Book Condition: Very Good. With mild shelf wear, a few one centimeter micro-stain(s) to outer first few page edges, minor rubbing on corner edges and head/tail of spine typical of vintage books of this age, otherwise barely read, pages are clean, bright, unmarked, and binding tight. First… Read more about this item

Harper & Brothers, 1945. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 1st edition, 1st state [Bowden A15a]. Dust jacket worn, with small closed tears and slight loss at edges, damp mark on back panel; in protective mylar cover. Decorated boards, slightly bumped. Book plate on FFEP. Binding tight, text clean, slightly tanned, no creases or tears.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945. Hardcover. Very Good. Early reprint. Illustrated by the author. Illustrated boards. Toning on the boards, a near very good copy lacking the dust jacket. Inscribed by Thurber in ink on the front fly: "With all best wishes. James Thurber" along with a drawing of a dog (initialed "Th") and another small sketch… Read more about this item

Harper & Brothers, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition, Early Printing (Has date code of "A-Y" on copy right which indicates a January 1949 Printing). Published by Harper & Brothers, 1945. Octavo. Orange and gray pictorial cloth boards stamped in black. Book is very good; clean with no writing or names. Spine straight and corners sharp.… Read more about this item

Harper & Brothers, 1945. Early Edition, non-specified . Hardcover. Good. This classic compilation was first published in 1945 and is an early edition. The HB is in Very Good condition with retention of color along with bumps and fraying of upper spine cloth. Published with materials designated during WWII with accompanying Eagle seal and statement about "conformity with… Read more about this item

Michael Joseph, London 1975. Hard Cover, 8vo, First Edition. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket: Very Good..

New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Good in Good dust jacket. [c.1967-68]. Hardcover. 0394600851 . An illustrated anthology of the popular humorist and illustrator's unique writings and drawings on a wide variety of subjects. With numerous pages of the author's cartoons and illustrations toward back half of volume. (Inaccurately listed as a 1957 Modern Library… Read more about this item

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: Franklin Library. 1978. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Leather Bound, Accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines. ; First Franklin Library… Read more about this item

New York, NY.: Harper & Brothers. Very Good. 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. This book is hard-bound in tan cloth with red and black stamping on the upper cover and spine. The covers show light scuffing and soiling, edge-wear, and light rubbing to the corners and spine-ends. The hinges are cracked, and the text-block is beginning to loosen… Read more about this item

The Thurber Carnival: 60th Anniversary Edition, which was exclusive to BMOC (1985). Fine, full cloth hardcover with decorative boards and new introduction chapbook by Clifton Fadiman laid in. Fine, bright jacket in new, removable (highly reflective) mylar sleeve. Although there are no book club indications on book or jacket themselves, the original laid in publisher's chapbook explains that BMOC originally… Read more about this item

New York: Modern Library. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1979. 1st Modern Library Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0394600851 . Price clipped. Edgewear to dustjacket. Now protected in a clear mylar cover. ; Binding style 13 with brown cloth boards. Likely printed between 1967-69.; Modern Library; 369 pages .

New York: Modern Library. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1979. First Printing. Hardcover. 0394604741 . Some edge spotting. ; Brown boards. This edition printed sometime between 1979-1986. Price of $12.95 intact on front flap. ; Modern Library; 369 pages .

Modern Library, 1957. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Stated First Modern Library Edition, 1957.

New York: Modern Library. 1957. 1st Modern Library Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0394600851 . Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Rubbing along panel edges. Printed stamp on FEP. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

New York: Harper & Brothers. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; Light top edge soil; jacket spine a . bit faded.. 1985. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. A collection of James Thurber's best writings and drawings from his many published books. ; 8.4 X 5.5 X 1.2 inches; 369 pages .

Harper & Brothers, 1945. Very Good Hardcover with Very Good dustjacket Pictorial cloth cover, 369 pages with first edition points. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.