Let Your Mind Alone and Other More or Less Inspirational Pieces. by Thurber, James, 1894-1961

THE UNIVERSAL LIBRARY GROSSET & DUNLAP. Used - Good. Good condition. Slightly dampstained.

New York: Harper Perennial, 1976 Some wear to the covers. Pages toned. Otherwise a clean, tight copy. . Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket as Issued.

NY: Harper & Brothers, 1937. first edition, first printing; 245 pp., hardcover, very good in a tattered dust jacket; the jacket lacks the front flap. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1950. Reprint. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: James Thurber. 266 pages, text illustrated with black-and-white line drawings by the author. Sketch illustrated dust jacket. . "Your mind may not be much good, says the learned Dr James Thurber, but it's all you've got to misunderstand with, and if you set to tinkering, it may turn on you and inflict a poisonous bite. The inspirationalists are fast confusing life to that point where it will be impossible to think about something without thinking about thinking about something, and when that happens all is lost. -- "Let Your Mind Alone", he counsels us. The old-fashioned technique of thinking was good enough for our fathers and should be good enough for us. -- from the front fold over blurb (sounds like Dilbert!) slight rubbing of the top edge of the dust jacket and a small tear top left and bottom left of the spine section, gift annotation on the front end page,… Read More

New York: Harper, 1937. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good hardcover. 4th edition. Text clean. Illustrated. Spine brown on cloth cover. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1948. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Reprint. Illustrated. Very good with a slightly cocked spine, owner name on the front pastedown, and some toning in a very good dust jacket with toning, tiny tears, and some creasing.

New York: Harper & Row, 1937. Covers foxed.. Original Cloth. Good/No Jacket.

Hamish Hamilton, 1947 Hamish Hamilton 1947 hardback white titles to turquoise cloth 255 pages with drawings by the author, wear to jacket small tears to top of 4 pages and tanning to extremeties Otherwise covers and inside in GOOD CLEAN TIGHT READING ORDER. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour despatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; G; orange/beige spine with blue text; first edition; missing jacket; cloth has some foxing to exterior, mostly to spine; modest edge wear; strong boards; text block edges have age toned; pictorial endpapers; previous owner's bookplate to fep; frontispiece; illustrated; pp 245. 1342614. FP New Rockville Stock.

New York: Editions for the Armed Services, 1944. paperback. very good. Illustrated. 94pp., oblong 32mo, printed stapled wrappers; Wartime paper slightly browned around the edges; wrappers lightly used. New York: Editions for the Armed Services, N-7, (1944) First edition thus.<br/> <br/> Published by a non-profit organization intended for exclusive distribution to the Armed Services.<br/> <br/>