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The years with Ross / by James Thurber. With drawings by the author.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thurber, James, 1894-1961.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ross, Harold Wallace, 1892-1951.
- Ross, Harold Wallace.
- New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Ragan, David (autograph) (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- viii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 310 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston ; Toronto : Little, Brown and Company, [1959]
- Contents:
- A dime a dozen
- The first years
- Every Tuesday afternoon
- Mencken and Nathan and Ross
- The talk of the town
- Miracle men
- More Miracle men
- Onward and upward and outward
- "Sex is an incedent"
- Who was Harold, what was he?
- Up popped the devil
- The dough and the system
- The secret life of Harold Winney
- Writers, artists, poets, and such
- Dishonest Abe and the grand marshal
- The last years.
- Notes:
- "An Atlantic Monthly Press book."
- "Atlantic-Little, Brown Books are published by Little, Brown and Company in association with The Atlantic Monthly Press."
- "Six chapter appear here for the first time: chapters numbered 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14. A few of those that had appeared earlier in the Atlantic are slightly expanded. The Foreword is also new. None of the drawings are new, although several are earlier captioned or titled drawings here reproduced as untitled drawings; some reproduce only part of the original drawings."--Cf. Bowden.
- Black cloth spine lettered in gilt and decorated with gilt six-pointed stars. Dusty-pink boards with gilt decoration of New York harbor, tug and skyline in gilt surrounded by three gilt frame lines on front cover.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has ms. note "David Ragan" on front flyleaf.
- Culture Class Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Culture Class Collection copy is "Third Printing".
- Cited in:
- Bowden, E. T. : James Thurber bibliography, A27a
- OCLC:
- 334711
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