Self portrait caricature, signed “W.S.P.” and “O. Henry” , on a picture postcard of the Flatiron Building, postmarked New York, June 17? 1905

by O. Henry, William Sydney Porter

$2,250 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

Published: Charles Hamilton, The Illustrated Letter 1987 , p. 20. 5-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches. Very good. Item #375334 American master of the short story O. Henry William Sydney Porter, 1862-1910 has inked a caricature of himself as a pot-bellied, cigar-smoking man extending the hand of friendship over the Flatiron Building to a similarly pot-bellied cigar smoker in a checked suit, identifying himself with the

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