Holograph manuscript leaf from “The Unprofitable Servant,” first published in 1911

by William Sydney Porter

$2,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

Single leaf, written in pencil, numbered at head 2 and 17. Approximately 90 words. 1 vols. Browned. Old fold, partial loss of page number at head separated at top 3/8-inch . With the copy of The Four Million. Item #375088 An unfinished story by William Sydney Porter 1862-1910 , famously known as O. Henry, first published in Everybody’s Magazine for December 1911, and then in his posthumous collection Rolling Stones. Porter notoriously

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