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Jabberwock : improbabilities lived and imagined by James Thurber in the fictional city of Columbus, Ohio / made into a play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee.

Text

New York : S. French, c1974.

1974

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberJFC 75-3712Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315
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Fantasia and chorale on The fable of the daws on the dial : for male chorus, unaccompanied (almost) / [words] by James Thurber ; music by Avery Claflin.

Notated music

New York, N.Y. : American Composers Alliance, c1957.

1957

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatNotated musicCall numberJPB 85-188 Box 6Item locationOffsite
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Fables for our time. Story: James Thurber; choreography: Charles Weidman; music: Freda Miller.

Notated music

[c1948]

1948

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatNotated musicCall numberJOG 74-13Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Music.

Fables for our time: excerpts (Motion picture)

Moving image

1972.

1972

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMoving imageCall number*MGZHB 6-1085Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance.

Thurber tales (Motion picture)

Moving image

1964.

1964

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMoving imageCall number*MGZHB 6-1846Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance.

Letters to Doris Humphrey, 1944 and 1947. (5 items)

Moving image

1944-1947

1 resource

Available online

Finding Aid

Musical comedies. Thurber carnival [Programs]

Text

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall number*MGZBItem locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance.

Why you feel the way you do; or, Is sex necessary? : a ballet-play in nine scenes / adapted from the work of the same name by James Thurber and E.B. White.

Text

[New York : s.n., 193-]

1930-1939

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall number(S) *MGTZ-Res. (Why you feel the way you do)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance.

Alec Wilder papers, 1939-2000.

Mixed material

1939-1995

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMixed materialCall number*ZL-497 r.1: Box 1Item locationSchwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328

Available by appointment at Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328. See the finding aid for details.

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMixed materialCall numberMssCol 3324 Box 1Item locationSchwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328

Available by appointment at Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328. See the finding aid for details.

Eight humorists. With drawings by David Langdon.

Text

London, A. Wingate [1954]

1954

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberNAP (Mikes, G. Eight humorists)Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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The pocket reader, edited, and with an introd. by Philip Van Doren Stern.

Text

New York, Pocket Books [1944, c.1941]

1944-1941

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberNCE (Stern, P. Van D. Pocket reader)Item locationOffsite
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Men can take it. Illustrated by James Thurber.

Text

New York, Random house [1939]

1939

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall number3-MME (Hawes, E. Men can take it)Item locationSchwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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This Petty pace : a book of drawings / by Mary Petty ; with a preface by James Thurber.

Text

New York : A.A. Knopf ; 1945.

1945

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberMEM (Petty) (Petty, M. This Petty pace)Item locationSchwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

Available by appointment at Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308.

James Thurber's Many moons, dramatized by Charlotte B. Chorpenning.

Text

Chicago, The Dramatic publishing company [1946]

1946

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberNAFH p.v. 351 no. 1-5Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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New Yorker records, ca.1924-1984.

Mixed material

1924-1984

1 resource

"Rise and shine;" screenplay, by Herman J. Mankiewicz. From "My life and hard times," by James Thurber. Shooting final.

Text

[Hollywood] 1941.

1941

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberMFLM+ (Rise) (Mankiewicz, H. J. "Rise and shine")Item locationOffsite

Available by appointment.

The secret life of Walter Mitty; a new musical based on the classic story by James Thurber. Book by Joe Manchester, Lyrics by Earl Shuman.

Text

[New York, Studio Duplicating Service] c1964.

1964

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberNCOF+ (Carr, L. Secret life of Walter Mitty)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre.

The Scarlet Mask Club of the Ohio State University season 1921-22 presents : Many moons, a musical comedy in two acts / by James G. Thurber '19 ; staged by Ray Lee Jackson '16 ; music under direction of Howard E. Hawk '22 and Richard E. Fidler '21 ; words and music by W. W. Havens '23 ... [et al.]

Notated music

Columbus] : Scarlet Mask Club of Ohio State University, [1922]

1922

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatNotated musicCall numberBerg Coll+ Thurber ZC6 O55 1922Item locationSchwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

Available by appointment at Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320.

The 13 clocks: typescript.

Text

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberRM 504Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre.

The beast in me: typescript, 1962-1963.

Text

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberRM 532Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre.

The beast in me: typescript.

Text

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberRM 533Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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Out on a limb: typescript.

Text

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberRM 481 Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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Repertory in action : photographs, [196-].

Still image

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatStill imageCall number*T Pho B (Repertory in action)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre.

An editor's burial : journals and journalism from the New Yorker and other magazines / edited by David Brendel.

Text

London : Pushkin Press, 2021.

2021

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberJFD 21-3116Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315
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A Thurber carnival: photographs, 1960.

Still image

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatStill imageCall number*T-Pho B (Thurber carnival)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre.

The secret life of Walter Mitty : original Broadway cast recording / [music, Leon Carr ; lyrics, Earl Shuman ; book, Joe Manchester].

Audio

New York, NY : Masterworks Broadway, [2011]

2011-1964

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatAudioCall number*LDC 40314Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatAudioCall number*LDC 40314Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound.

Writers at work : the Paris Review interviews / edited, and with an introduction, by Malcolm Cowley.

Text

New York : The Viking Press, 1959.

1959

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberPN453 .P3 1959Item locationOff-site

This Petty pace : a book of drawings / by Mary Petty ; with a preface by James Thurber.

Text

New York : A.A. Knopf, 1945.

1945

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberND239 P45 P45Item locationOff-site

Voices from the gallery / Stephen Paulus. Thurber\u0027s dogs / Peter Schickele.

Audio

[Corte Madera, Calif.?] : D\u0027Note Classics, [1996], ℗1996.

1996-1996

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatAudioCall numberCD3742Item locationOff-site

The world of John McNulty / with an appreciation by James Thurber.

Text

Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1957.

1957

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberPS3525.A2847 A6 1957Item locationOff-site

Secret lives of Walter Mitty and of James Thurber / James Thurber ; illustrated by Marc Simont.

Text

New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, 2006.

2006

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberPS3539.H94 S43 2006Item locationOff-site

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