Inscribed to "21" Club owner Sheldon Tannen

The Hat on the Bed.

New York: Random House, [1963].

Price: $150.00


About the item

First edition. 405 pp. 8vo. Inscribed to "21" Club owner Sheldon Tannen. Green blue cloth. Very Good in VG dj.

Item #313544

Inscribed on ffep "To Sheldon Tannen Best wishes John O'Hara 18 May '64." Tannen was the nephew of "21" Club co-founder Jack Kriendler, and took over the club on Jack's death. O'Hara was a frequenter of "21", and he contributed a piece to The Iron Gate, the festschrift for Kriendler published on the 25th anniversary of the club's founding.