Let your mind alone! : and other more or less inspirational pieces / by James Thurber ; with drawings by the author
2018, 1st edition. London : Hamish Hamilton. Library copy with remaining marks, bookplates and embossments. Poor copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands worn; panel edges somewhat dust-toned and rubbed as with age (with some tear to the cloth). Text remains clear and without blemish. Item #421939
Physical description; 255, [1] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. Contents; Part one (1. Pythagoras and the ladder ; 2. Desteructive forces in life ; 3. The case for the daydreamer ; 4. A dozen disciplines ; 5. How to adjust yourself to your work ; 6. Anodynes for anxieties ; 7. The conscious vs. the unconscious ; 8. Sex ex machina ; 9. Sample intelligence test ; 10. Miscellaneous meditations). Part two (1. The breaking up of the winships ; 2. My memories of D.H. Lawrence ; 3. The case against women ; 4. No standing room only ; 5. Nine needles ; 6. A couple of hamburgers ; 7. The case of the laughing butler ; 8. Bateman comes home ; 9. Footnote on a course of study ; 10. Remembrance of things past ; 11. Something about Polk ; 12. Aisle seats in the mind ; 13. Suli suli ; 14. An outline of scientists ; 15. Highball flags ; 16. Mrs. Phelps ; 17. Guns and game calls ; 18. The hiding generation ; 19. Wild Bird Hickok and his friends ; 20. Doc Marlowe ; 21. Food fun for the menfolk ; 22. Good-bye, Mr. O. Charles Meyer! ; 23. What are the leftists saying? ; 24. How to write an autobiography ; 25. After the steppe cat, what? ; 26. Women go on for ever ; 27. The wood duck ; 28. The admiral on the wheel). Subjects; American wit and humour. Humorists, American.
Price: €12.95