McSorley's Wonderful Saloon
$3,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books
First edition · Signed
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943. First edition, first printing. A splendid association copy between two noteworthy contributors to The New Yorker; significant as the stories that make up this book famously made their debut in that magazine. Signed by Joseph Mitchell and inscribed in a shaky hand just seven weeks before he would pass away to artist Richard Merkin, For my colleague Richard Merkin whose
- Printing: first
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