CREDOS AND CURIOS, with a Foreword by Helen Thurber
$250 · Offered by Biblio
First edition · Signed · In dust jacket
New York: Harper & Row, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author's widow, Helen Thurber, to his mistress, Ann Honeycutt, on the front flyleaf. This posthumously published collection includes Thurber's astute and affectionate profiles of fellow writers E.B. White, Elliott Nugent, Mary Petty, Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman, John McNulty, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Octavo. Original red paper-covered boards over a red cloth spine, with gilt stamping. Light bumping to the bottom corners. The dust jacket is price-clipped, with some mild edgewear; else very good or better.
- Publisher: Harper & Row
- Year: 1962
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: hardcover
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