Cloth spined boards, dj, VG/G. x+310pp, b/w illustrations by the author, large bookplate on the front pastedown, spine of dustjacket faded & stained, dustjacket rubbed & a little creased along the edges. Thurbers account of Harold Wallace Ross, the man who founded the New Yorker magazine & was editior of the same from 1925 - 1951. Thurber worked as a writer for the magazine throughout this period.

biography, journalism, humour, literature, cartoons