Writings & Drawings (The Library of America 90)

New York: The Library of America, 1996. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 5x1x8. First thus. Includes publisher's slipcase. Quarter-sized stain on top slipcase edge, previous owner's ink label on bottom slipcase edge. 1996 Hard Cover. xiii, 1004 pp. 8vo. Original cloth, gilt titles and rules, ribbon marker bound in. A collection of short works and cartoons by the humorist long associated with The New Yorker, selected by Garrison Keillor, with chronology and notes following text. Includes: Is Sex Necessary? (excerpts); The Owl in the Attic (excerpts); The Seal in the Bedroom; My Life and Hard Times; The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze (excerpts); Let Your Mind Alone! (excerpts); The Last Flower; Fables for Our Time & Famous Poems Illustrated (excerpts); My World - And Welcome to It (excerpts); Men, Women and Dogs (excerpts); The Thurber Carnival (excerpts); The Beast in Me and Other Animals (excerpts); The 13 Clocks; The Thurber Album (excerpts); Thurber Country (excerpts); Thurber's Dogs (excerpts); Further Fables for Our Time (excerpts); Alarms and Diversions (excerpts); The Years with Ross (excerpts); Uncollected Pieces. This edition is part of the Library of America series, published by a non-profit organization whose goal is to keep classic works of American literature and history in print as a way of preserving cultural heritage.