Guide to the James Thurber Family Collection


Series IV: Books, 1904-2002
Subseries I: Ohio State University Makios, 1904-1923
Location: Museum Room
Makio, 1904
Makio, 1910
Makio, 1911
Makio, 1912
Makio, 1915
Makio (additional copy in Jamie's Room), 1916
Makio (additional copy in Jamie's Room), 1918
Makio (on display in Jamie's Room), 1920
Makio, 1923
Subseries II: James Thurber's Published Books, 1943-1966
Location: Museum Room
The 13 Clocks. New York: Simon and Schuster. First printing. , 1950
Alarms and Diversions. New York: Harper & Brothers., 1957
First edition. Four copies.
The Beast in Me and Other Animals. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company., 1948
First edition. Two copies; one inscribed "For Herman and Dorothy".
Credos and Curios. New York and Evanston: Harper & Row., 1962
First edition. Two copies; one inscribed "To Vella from Helen."
Fables For Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated. Garden City, New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1943
Further Fables for Our Time. New York: Simon and Schuster., 1956
First printing. Three copies; one includes tipped-in signed letter on New Yorker letterhead from Thurber to Miss Margaret Farrar, London, Ohio, dated June 11, 1957, thanking her for a photo of Spook. Another copy is inscribed Merry Christmas to Dorothy, [from] Jim and Helen.
Further Fables for Our Time. New York: Simon and Schuster., 1956
Special printing.
Further Fables for Our Time. London: Hamish Hamilton., 1956
Is Sex Necessary? Or Why You Feel the Way You Do. (with E.B. White). New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers., 1929
22nd printing.
Lanterns and Lances. New York: Harper & Brothers., 1961
First edition.
The Last Flower: A Parable in Pictures. New York and London: Harper & Brothers., 1939
First edition. Inscribed "Jolly Times, James Thurber."
The Last Flower: A Parable in Pictures. Larchmont, New York: Queens House., undated
Three copies.
Men, Women and Dogs. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company., 1943
First edition. Two copies; one inscribed "For Herman and Dorothy, with all my love, Jim."
The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze. New York and London: Harper & Brothers., 1935
First edition. Inscribed February 27, 1937 by Ann, Irene and Bill O'Bryan.
The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze. New York: Harper & Brothers., ca. 1940s
Armed Services edition.
My Life and Hard Times. New York and London: Harper & Brothers., 1933
19th edition.
My Life and Hard Times. New York and London: Harper & Brothers., 1933
First edition. Two copies; one inscribed "You once said the first 2 million negatives are the worst! A Merry Christmas! Jim"; the other inscribed "For Herman and Dorothy. This is my letter to these two who never write to me/Take, dears, my little sheaf of wrongs for old and new/Now of my three score years and ten/It seems that only about 56 will not come again/Fair as stars when only two are shining in the sky/And even the Weariest Thurber/Minds somehow safe to thee! Jim"
My Life and Hard Times. New York: Bantam Books, 1947
My World - And Welcome To It. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company., 1942
First edition. Two copies; one inscribed Mimi Converse.
The Owl in the Attic and Other Perplexities. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers., 1931
Inscribed by Thurber for Herman Miller.
The Owl in the Attic and Other Perplexities. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers., 1965
The Seal in the Bedroom and Other Predicaments. New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers., 1932
First edition. Three copies.
The Seal in the Bedroom and Other Predicaments. New York: Grosset & Dunlap (Universal Library)., 1950
The Thurber Album: A Collection of Pieces about People. New York: Simon and Schuster., 1952
First printing.
The Thurber Carnival. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers., 1942
Inscribed "For Herman and Dorothy with all my love, Jim".
The Thurber Carnival. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers (hardback and paperback)., 1945
Two copies.
Thurber & Company. New York, Evanston and London: Harper & Row., 1966
First edition.
Thurber Country. New York: Simon and Schuster., 1953
First printing. Six copies; one inscribed "For Dorothy with love as forever, Jim."
Thurber's Dogs. New York: Simon and Schuster., 1955
First printing. Three copies.
Thurber's Dogs. Penguin Books Ltd., 1959
The White Deer. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company., 1945
Second edition.
The Wonderful O. New York: Simon and Schuster., 1957
First printing. Two copies.
The Years with Ross. Boston: Little, Brown and Company., 1959
First edition. Two copies.
Ernst, Margaret S. (illustrated by James Thurber). In a Word. New York: Alfred A. Knopf., 1939
Ernst, Margaret S. (illustrated by James Thurber). The Executive's In A Word Book. New York: Belmont Books., 1960
Kinney, James R. (illustrated by James Thurber). How To Raise a Dog: In the City...In the Suburbs. New York: Simon and Schuster., 1938
Subseries III: Foreign Translations of James Thurber's Books, 1944-2001
Location: Museum Room
The 13 Clocks. (Arabic or Hebrew). Tel Aviv: Schocken Publishing House., 1976
A 13 Falióra. Bembo. (Hungarian, The 13 Clocks)., 1990
A Feher Szarvas. ( The White Deer and Other Stories, Hungarian). Budapest: Europa Konyvkiado., 1982
Two copies.
The Day the Dam Broke. (Japanese/English). Tokyo: Seibido's English Texts Series., 1959
Den Evige Trekant (Maend, Kvinder og Hunde). ( My World and Welcome To It, Danish). Denmark: Nyt Nordisk Forlag Arnold Busck., 1987
Die 13 Uhren. ( The 13 Clocks, German). Dusseldorf: Patmos Verlag GmbH & Co., 2001
Die Maan is Joune. ( Many Moons). Kaapstad: Anansi Uitgewers, 1992
Ein Mond für Leonore. ( Many Moons, German). Oldenburg: Lappan Verlag GmbH., 1993
Four copies.
Fabler för vår tid. ( Fables for Our Time, Swedish). Forum., 1977
Fables for Our Time. (Chinese)., undated
Four Short Stories. Hong Kong: World Today Press(English/Chinese bilingual edition)., 1981
Fremdsprachentexte: James Thurber's Stories and Fables for Our Time. (German). Stuttgart: Philipp Reclam., 1988
Het Verborgen Leven van Walter Mitty en Andere Verhalen. Vitgeverij Villa, Bussum., 1993
Het Whitte Hert. ( The White Deer, Dutch). Leopold: Den Haag., 1980
Himmelen har mange måner. ( Many Moons, Norwegian). Oslo: Forlag Carlsen., 1992
Karneval. ( The Thurber Carnival, Russian). Odeon., 1970
La 13 Horlogoj. Berkeley, CA: Aldonejo Bero., 1993
La Vie Secréte de Walter Mitty. ( The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, French). René Julliard., 1963
Lachen mit Thurber: 75 Ausgewählte Erzählungen und Fablen von James Thurber mit Einem Vorwort von Reinhard Lettau. ( 75 Thurber stories, German). Rowolt Verlag GmbH Reinbeck bei Hamburg., 1964
Många Månar. ( Many Moons, Swedish). Bokforlag Carlsen., 1992
My Life and Hard Times. (Bengali). Calcutta: Hasantika Prakasika., 1955
The Thurber Carnival (Japanese)., undated
Thurber's Dogs. (Japanese). Hayakawa Publishing, Inc., undated
Trináctery Hodiny. A Dve Dalsi Pohádsky., 1944
The Unicorn in the Garden (Asian)., 1994
Subseries IV: Books Pertaining to James Thurber, 1908-2002
Location: Museum Room
Benchley, Robert. The Treasurer's Report and Other Aspects of Community Singing, 1930
Located in right trunk under window in Museum Room.
Better To Have Loafed and Lost: The Best of James Thurber. Ebury Press., 2002
Gill, Brendan. Here at the New Yorker. London: Michael Joseph., 1975
Holmes, Charles S., ed. Thurber: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1974
New Yorker Anniversary Album, 1925-1950; 1989
Parker, Dorothy. Death and Taxes. New York: The Viking Press. 6th printing., 1932
Rosen, Michael J., ed. Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers., 1989
First edition. Inscribed by the author.
Rosen, Michael J., ed. Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself. New York: Harper Perennial. Paperback., 1989
Van Dyke, Henry. Music and Other Poems, 1908
Located in right trunk under window in Museum Room.
Subseries V: Books with References to Thurber, 1980
Location: Museum Room
Caswell, Lucy Shelton and Loomis, George A., Jr. Billy Ireland. Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio State University Libraries Publications Committee. , 1980
Inscribed "For Mrs. James Thurber with sincere appreciation, Lucy Shelton Caswell," with letter transmitting a copy of the book from Lucy Caswell to Helen Thurber, dated November 6, 1980. Helen W. Thurber and Rosemary T. Sauers are listed under Acknowledgments for "Boy from Chillicothe" by James Thurber in The Thurber Album (Simon and Schuster, 1952)

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