NY, Harper & Row, (1977). White's essays, inscribed by Helen Thurber, wife of James Thurber, to Mary [Mian] and her husband Aristide for Christmas, 1976, "with love." Mary Mian was a friend of the Thurbers from their days in Greenwich Village, and she became a New Yorker writer, mentored by James Thurber. Thurber provided the introduction to her 1946 book My Country in Law, about her time in France with her French husband, the sculptor Aristide Mian. Thurber himself had become a New Yorker cartoonist when White submitted doodles by Thurber he had found in the trash. A near fine copy in a very good, moderately edgeworn dust jacket with one small tape repair. A common book, but a copy with extraordinary provenance and interesting links between the author, presenter and recipients of the book. [#031473] SOLD