Evidentiary Copy

My Ears Are Bent.

New York: Sheridan House, [1938].

Price: $2,250.00


About the item

First edition of the author’s first book. Illustrated with photographs. 284 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Evidentiary Copy. Green cloth. Front inner hinge cracked but holding. Very good in very good dust jacket (spine panel faded, short split at top of front spine fold). Provenance: from the files of Lee Furman, publisher.

Item #307462

Joseph Mitchell’s elusive first book, decidedly uncommon in dust jacket.

This copy, from the files of Sheridan House publisher Lee Furman, is an evidentiary copy of a previously unknown second state dust jacket, with publisher’s reviews on the front inner flap and a publisher’s ad on back inner flap.