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Let Your Mind Alone And Other More Or Less Inspirational Pieces
by Thurber, James
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good Condition/Good
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
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, dust jacket price clipped. The edges of the book are clean, internally clean and bright. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: James Thurber. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: humour; Inventory No: 0275425. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0275425
- Title
- Let Your Mind Alone And Other More Or Less Inspirational Pieces
- Author
- Thurber, James
- Illustrator
- James Thurber
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1950
- Keywords
- BZDB2 New Yorker, articles, Humour humour; James Thurber Unbranded Thurber, James Let Your Mind Alone And Other More Or Less Inspirational Pieces
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humour;
Terms of Sale
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
transaction in Australian $'s for checks and money orders.If the book is not as described, return within 14 days, for a refund of the cost of the book.
We are registered for GST and goods sold to an Australian delivery address will include GST. Our ABN 15 100 960 047
About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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