Signed first edition of this collection of short stories and sketches, all set in "the imaginary swank Hotel Superba."
Very good plus.
Price: $75.00
"The initials RMC in front of the Bar, stood for 'Ride-em-Cowboy[.]'"
Hotel Superba, located in "Big Town-on-the-Hudson," is host to myriad cranks, crooks, cosmopolites, house dicks and hicks, jackrollers, chiselers, cheaters, skippers, phonies, fakers, and more. Also included here is a Glossary of Big Town Hotel Slang, useful in telling a Mr. Highpockets from an appleknocker, a squirrel, or a pure Dick Tracy.
First printing. Greenfield, Indiana: Wm. Mitchell Printing Company / The Old Swimmin' Hole Press, (1945). 8.5'' x 6.5''. Original oxblood cloth gilt-stamped boards. "Author's First Edition," signed by Pancoast to limitation page; this copy no. 871 of an unspecified number. 372 pages. Slight lean, minor rubbing to spine, light scattered foxing to edges of text block and endpapers. Sharp.
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