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The 13 Clocks
by Thurber, James
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine copy (issued without dust jacket)
- ISBN 10
- 1590172752
- ISBN 13
- 9781590172759
- Seller
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Pittsford, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: New York Review. Fine copy (issued without dust jacket). 2008. Later prt.. hardcover. 8vo, 124 pp., Introduction by Neil Gaiman. .
Synopsis
James Thurber (1894—1961), one of the outstanding American humorists and cartoonists of the twentieth century, was born in Columbus, Ohio, and launched his professional writing career as a reporter for the Columbus Dispatch in 1920. He began writing for The New Yorker in 1927 after his friend E. B. White got him a job at the magazine. Though hampered by failing eyesight, Thurber wrote nearly forty books, including collections of essays, short stories, fables, and children’s stories. He won a Tony Award for his popular Broadway play, A Thurber Carnival. Marc Simont (1915-2013) illustrated nearly a hundred books. He won a Caldecott Honor in 1950 for illustrating Ruth Krauss’s The Happy Day , and in 1957 he was awarded the Caldecott Medal for his pictures in A Tree Is Nice by Janice May Udry. He is the illustrator for The New York Review Children’s Collection books The Backward Day and The Wonderful O . Neil Gaiman is an award-winning author of novels, short stories, children's books, and graphic novels. Among his works are the children's books Coraline, The Wolves in the Walls, and The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish; the Sandman graphic novels series; and the fantasy novels Stardust and Smoke and Mirrors. Originally from England, Gaiman now lives in the United States.
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- Bookseller
- Abacus Bookshop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS067072I
- Title
- The 13 Clocks
- Author
- Thurber, James
- Illustrator
- Illus. by Marc Simont
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine copy (issued without dust jacket)
- Edition
- Later prt.
- ISBN 10
- 1590172752
- ISBN 13
- 9781590172759
- Publisher
- New York Review
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2008
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books;
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