Item #E22454 McSorley's Wonderful Saloon (in dust jacket). Joseph Mitchell.

McSorley's Wonderful Saloon (in dust jacket)

New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1943. Later printing. Hardcover. Hardcover in red cloth. 253 pp. Fine. In the original dust jacket, very good, price intact, chipping to the head and foot of the spine and along the bottom edge of the front panel. An eighth printing of Mitchell's second, and most famous, book, a collection of twenty tales of low-life New York that presents an admiring decription of the eccentricities of the owners of the real-life McSorley's Saloon. Some of the other stories feature people ike Mazie, the blonde, slangy proprietor of a dime movie house, Professor Sea Gull, Cockeye Johnny, a King of the Gypsies who drinks "old pop skull" (Pepsi and gin), Commodore Dutch, who earns his living by throwing an annual benfir for himself, Lady Olga the Bearded Lady, and Papa Houdini, a Harlem calypso singer. Fine / very good. Item #E22454

Price: $110.00

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