{"product_id":"to-2026-126","title":"The 13 Clocks (INSCRIBED)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHURBER, James.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe 13 Clocks.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING.\u003c\/strong\u003e New York: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster, 1950.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInscribed by the author on the half-title, \"Best Wishes,\" and signed \"James Thurber.\" A first edition, first printing, with no later printing or printing line stated on the copyright page. Small octavo. 124 pp. Color and black-and-white illustrations by Marc Simont. Red cloth spine over blue paper-covered boards pictorially stamped in black, in the original publisher's color illustrated dust jacket. Fading to the spine, else fine, in an about-near-fine dust jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe fairy tale Thurber wrote in Bermuda, where he had gone to finish another book entirely — \"an example of escapism and self-indulgence,\" as he put it in his foreword. The story — Prince Zorn of Zorna disguised as a wandering minstrel; the wicked Duke who has frozen time by stopping all thirteen clocks; the enigmatic Golux, who speaks in half-truths; the Todal, a \"blob of glup\" that \"makes a sound like rabbits screaming\" — is among the most quoted children's books of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-126\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thurber, James","offers":[{"title":"Near Fine","offer_id":46459955314849,"sku":"TO-2026-126","price":750.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-126_02.jpg?v=1783396168","url":"https:\/\/twoorangesbooks.com\/products\/to-2026-126","provider":"Two Oranges Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}