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JAMES THURBER (1894-1961) "Laissez faire and let laissez faire is what I believe in." Cartoon for The New Yorker, published September 26, 1942. Reproduced in Thurber's Men, Women, and Dogs (New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1943). Pen and ink over graphite with correction fluid on paper. 190x278 mm; 7 1/2x11 inches, on 8 1/2x11-inch sheet. Signed "James Thurber" in lower right image, captioned in graphite in lower margin. Hinged to matte and archivally framed with museum glass. See condition report. A printed copy of the magazine accompanies the lot.
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