Item 377807The Sweet Science.
Price: $175
New York: Viking, 1956. First edition. Liebling’s acclaimed paean to Boxing and Peirce Egan’s Boxiana. Read More Item Details for The Sweet Science Add to Wish List
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A.J. Liebling
Inscribed to His Future Wife, Jean Stafford
Item 374028The Telephone Booth Indian.
Price: $2,000
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1942. First edition. Ten pieces by A.J. Liebling on the what the jacket copy calls the flora and fauna of Broadway, including “The Jollity Building” This copy with an interesting provenance: the bookplate of Jane Tiffany Wagner, with her gift inscription to Jean Stafford..... Read More Item Details for The Telephone Booth Indian Add to Wish List
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Item 374023Between Meals. An Appetite for Paris.
Price: $200
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962. First edition. Liebling’s love letter to Paris, a delightful visit an unattainable Paris of the past (his was the 1920s and the 1950s). Liebling writes of eating as an extreme sport, with the plain speech and scattered diamonds found in his writing about other..... Read More Item Details for Between Meals. An Appetite for Paris Add to Wish List
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Liebling writes as ‘William Faulkner’ and ‘Russell Hastings’
Item 373966Typed Letters, signed (“Liebling”), conveying comic squibs under pseudonyms Russell Hastings and William Faulkner.
Price: $8,500
New York: Tuesday January 4, [1938]. On New Yorker letterhead, A.J. Liebling writes a squib from the editorial offices, dated Tuesday January 4, 1938: Dear Feldkamp, Hastings is very sore about the delay on the check. I have tried my best to mollify him but you know what an irascible..... Read More Item Details for Typed Letters, signed (“Liebling”), conveying comic squibs under pseudonyms Russell Hastings and William Faulkner Add to Wish List
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Item 373962Normandy Revisited.
Price: $2,000
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1958. First edition. Inscribed by the author to his Dartmouth classmate and longtime correspondent, Leo Stone, “For Dena and Leo, Abbott (A.J. Liebling) Sept 30, ’58”. Read More Item Details for Normandy Revisited Add to Wish List
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Inscribed to Jack Kahn
Item 373961Chicago: The Second City.
Price: $3,000
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. First edition. Liebling’s witty impressions of Chicago just after the second world war, inscribed to prolific fellow New Yorker writer E.J. Kahn, Jr., “For Jack Kahn, signed ‘provincially small-minded, outrageously absurd” — Joe Liebling 23/6/52” AN OUTSTANDING ASSOCIATION. Read More Item Details for Chicago: The Second City Add to Wish List
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Inscribed by Liebling
Item 373960The Honest Rainmaker. The Life and Times of Colonel John R. Stingo.
Price: $2,000
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1953. First edition. New Yorker writer A.J. Liebling’s delightful biography of James S. A. Macdonald, longtime racetrack and boxing commentator and man about town, known by the name of Col. John R. Stingo. Inscribed by the author to his Dartmouth friend and longtime..... Read More Item Details for The Honest Rainmaker. The Life and Times of Colonel John R. Stingo Add to Wish List
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Inscribed by Col. Stingo
Item 373959The Honest Rainmaker. The Life and Times of Colonel John R. Stingo.
Price: $2,000
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1953. First edition. New Yorker writer A.J. Liebling’s delightful biography of James S. A. Macdonald, longtime racetrack and boxing commentator and man about town, known by the name of Col. John R. Stingo. Inscribed by the subject: “New York, N.Y. March 13th ’53..... Read More Item Details for The Honest Rainmaker. The Life and Times of Colonel John R. Stingo Add to Wish List
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Inscribed by Marks, Ghostwritten by Liebling
Item 373943They All Sang. From Tony Pastor to Rudy Vallée. As Told to Abbott J. Liebling by Edward B. Marks.
Price: $750
New York: Viking, 1935. Third printing (first published in 1934). Memoir by Edward B. Marks (1865-1945), founder of the Marks Music company, from Tin Pan Alley through the Roaring Twenties, ghostwritten by A.J. Liebling. Inscribed on the front flyleaf, “To my friend Alfred Kreymborg in appreciation of a distinguished poet..... Read More Item Details for They All Sang. From Tony Pastor to Rudy Vallée. As Told to Abbott J. Liebling by Edward B. Marks Add to Wish List
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