Typed Letter, signed Jim , to Liz Riley of the Thomas Crowell Company, thanking her for the new Dictionary of Slang

by James Thurber

$2,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

1 p. 1 vols. 8-1/2 x 11. A few minor smudges from the original typewriter, original folds, a few pinholes upper left, but very nice overall. Item #42863 A marvelous note from the Master: “I am glad indeed to have the new Dictionary of Slang and thanks for sending it along. Maybe it contains — it's up in Cornwall waiting for us — the origin of the only slang phrase I ever invented: I have to see a man about a

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