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JAMES THURBER.
“He Doesn’t Believe a Single Word
He’s Read in the Past TenYears.”
Ink cartoon. 107x190 mm; 4
1
/
4
x7
1
/
2
inches, image, on tan paper. Signed by
Thurber, lower right, typed caption in
window below image. Framed in plain
black plastic and matted.Not examined
out of frame. Provenance: Ralph
Esmerian.Nd.
[5,000/7,000]
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JAMES THURBER.
“Rites
of Spring”
Pen and ink with watercolor on
illustration board. 360x230 mm; 14x9
inches on larger board. Drawing for a
NewYorker cover. Signed lower right.
[8,000/12,000]
Published as The New Yorker cover on
April 27, 1940.
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