Cast of characters : Wolcott Gibbs, E. B. White, James Thurber, and the golden age of the New Yorker / Thomas Vinciguerra
2016, 1st edition. New York : W. W. Norton & Company. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #444716
Physical description; x, 452 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. Contents; A Christmas greeting to The New Yorkers" -- "Either competent or horrible" -- "A ludicrous pastime" -- "Infatuation with pinheads" -- "Boy, do I like to handle authors!" -- "Most insanely miscast" -- "An offense to the ear" -- "Pretty gummy at best" -- "A silly occupation for a grown man" -- "I am a child of the sun" -- "Always poison" -- "Flying high and fast" -- "The moral climate is against it" -- "A lot of suicidal enterprises" -- "Whose days, in any case, were numbered." Subjects; Gibbs, Wolcott 1902-1958. White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks) 1899-1985. Thurber, James 1894-1961. New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925) History. Periodicals Publishing New York (State) New York History 20th century.
Price: €18.00