The Middle-Aged Man On the Flying Trapeze

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1935. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 226 pages. In Very Good condition, with Very Good dust jacket. Spine yellow with red titling. dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Price uncut '$2.00'. Very mild wear and rubbing overall. Larry McMurtry's copy, with his neat (and therefor very early) ownership signature in pencil on… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers. Very Good with no dust jacket; Blue decorated paper boards over tan cloth . spine. Code on copyright page (F-E) designates this printing to be June . 1955. Straight and tight with age browning to spine and along edges with . tiny tear to spine head.. 1935. Tenth Edition. Hardcover. Contains 36 short stories and,… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1935. First Edition. Near Fine/About Very Good. First edition. (xii), 227 pp. Original tan cloth with navy lettering. Near Fine with offsetting to gutters, in About Very Good dust jacket with darkened spine panel, faint staining to front panel, chip in back panel, price-clipped. Nice condition overall.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. A collection of Thurber's "genteelly vitriolic" satires and parodies, including the "The Greatest Man in the World". From the library of Academy Award-winning screenwriter David Lloyd, with his name on the front flyleaf. Octavo: x, 226 p. Original cloth binding, with pictorial blue stamping.… Read more about this item

Garden City: Blue Ribbon Books, 1946. Hardcover. Good +. x, [2], 226, [2] p.: illustrations; 21 cm. Brown cover with red spine and cover titles, and front cover illustration. No dust jacket. Contains 36 amusing short stories, perfectly illustrated by the author. In Good+ Condition: cover is lightly soiled; ends of spine and corners… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Universal Library/Grosset & Dunlap, 1955. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. James Thurber (Author-Illustrator). SOFT COVER. Text/BRAND NEW, w/faint margin discoloration, and, humidity staining to lower spines of first 17 pgs & last pages. Anthology of 36 short stories & illustrations from Ohio-born James Grover Thurber (1894 - 1961),… Read more about this item

Hamish Hamilton, 1947. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1947. Reprinted. 226 pages. No dust jacket. Dark blue cloth with a black and white illustrated frontis and black and white illustrations throughout. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Slight dog-eared pages throughout and visible tanning to text block edges. Boards have visible sunning and notable… Read more about this item

Blue Ribbon Books, 1935. Hardcover. Good. 1935. 226 pages. No dust jacket. Beige pictorial cloth. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly… Read more about this item

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1935. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Thurber, James. First edition first printing hardback with pictorial cover. xii + 228 pp Illustrated Near Very Good condition (spine slightly foxed) No inscriptions.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1935. Hardcover. Fine/Good. First English edition. Tiny bookstore label else fine in a good price-clipped dust jacket that is spine-toned and a bit stained. Scarce in jacket.

New York: Harper, 1935. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Spotting to the cloth, very good without dustwrapper.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1935. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition. Modest foxing on boards, dampstain on bottom of pages, very good in a lightly spine-tanned, near fine dustwrapper.

THE MIDDLE-AGED MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE, Harpers, 1935, first edition, slight foxing near the spine hinges, else a bright vg+ copy in near vg dust-wrapper with some light chipping to the extremities of the somewhat sunned dust-wrapper spine. Still a most collectable copy of this early title. 

New York : Harper and brothers, 1935. 1st Edition in this form. Paperback. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 280 pages; Description: 280 p. ; 10 cm. Subjects: Middle-aged men --Humor. Series: Armed Services edition… Read more about this item

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1935. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; G+; dark beige spine with blue text; fifth edition; no jacket; cloth shows some discoloration, due to sun aging; mild overall wear; strong boards; text block edges have age toned; slight shadow toning to endpapers; previous owner's name to ffep; deckled fore edge; frontispiece; illustrated; pp 226.… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1935. Hardcover. Good/Good. First edition. Dampstaining on the boards and wear on the board edges thus good only in a good only dust jacket with chips, dampstaining, and rubbing.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1947. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/good +. pp. 226. In the unclipped jacket, with a few very small nicks to extrems, soiled, spine darkened, otherwise sound. Offset to front and rear endpapers, else a very clean, sound copy.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1947. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Reprint. Illustrated. Very good with spotting on the boards, toning, and owner name on the front free endpaper in a very good dust ajcket with toning on the spine and edgewear.

NY: Harper and Brothers, 1935. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover shows wear but otherwise tight and internally clean. Black & white illustrations by the author. previous owner's bookplate front paste-down. No dust jacket. Record # 109190

Garden City: Blue Ribbon Books 1946. (Hardcover) 226pp. Very good plus in very good dust jacket. Top edge stained red, illustrations. The dust jacket is lightly worn and has a small chip to the bottom corner of the front panel. "Thurber is Thurber and there is none other. There is a sort of unearthly… Read more about this item