Lanterns & lances / James Thurber
1961, 1st edition. London: Hamish Hamilton. Poor paperback copy in the original. Front wrapper detached. Text remains clear and without blemish. Item #318394
Physical description: 191 pages; illustrations; 22 cm.
Contents:Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- How to get through the day -- Midnight at Tim's place -- The darlings at the top of the stairs -- The porcupines in the artichokes -- The spreading "you know" -- Magical lady -- Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ear muffs -- The last clock -- Such a phrase as drifts through dreams -- A moment with Mandy -- The tyranny of trivia -- The wings of Henry James -- Hark the Herald Tribune, Times and all the other angels sing -- The new vocabularianism -- The saving grace -- Come across with the facts -- The case for comedy -- Here come the dolphins -- Conversation piece: Connecticut -- How the kooks crumble -- The watchers of the night -- My senegalese birds and siamese cats -- The trouble with man is man -- The duchess and the bugs.
Subject: American fiction. American wit and humor. Genre: Illustrated.
Price: €14.95