The Thurber Carnival (The Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers)

xxi, 430 pp. Full dark green leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. "The Thurber Carnival is an omnibus of the best by 'one of the world's great comic artists and one of the great American humorists' (The New Yorker). Fables; drawings; The Secret Life of Walter Mitty; The Secret Life of James Thurber; some stories never before published in book form, including The Lady on 142; a full-length book (My Life and Hard Times); There's an Owl in My Room - all these and much more may be found in this remarkable collection."