The Petty Pace a book of drawings by Mary Petty, with a preface by James Thurber by Petty, Mary, 1899 - 1976

New York : A.A. Knopf, 1946. Hard Cover. [102] p. illus. (part col.) 28 x 22 cm. First pub. Nov, 1945. This is the third printing, May, 1946. Married to fellow The New Yorker cartoonist Alan Dunn. She "published in The New Yorker, and over the next four decades created a singular style of illustration characterized by a gentle satirization of New York City's Victorian era society. In a series of 35 covers produced over 26 years, Mary Petty created and chronicled the lives of the Peabody family, including Mrs. Peabody, dowager of the family, and Fay, the whimsical, fragile maid who cared for the aging mistress and her family." Caption: "Everything considered, he preaches a remarkably good sermon. It's so hard to avoid offending people like us." Stock# 43,923. Vg / no dj.