Inscribed to "21" Club owner Sheldon Tannen

Sermons and Soda-Water. The Girl on the Baggage Truck, Imagine Kissing Pete and We're Friends Again.

New York: Random House, [1960].

Price: $200.00


About the item

First edition. xii, 106; pp. x, 112; x, 110pp. 3 vols. 8vo. Inscribed to "21" Club owner Sheldon Tannen. Original printed cloth boards, slipcase (broken at top). Bruccoli A18. 1.a.

Item #313565

Inscribed in the first volume: "To Sheldon Tannen/with best wishes/John O'Hara/23 Nov. 60". Tannen was the nephew of "21" Club co-founder Jack Kriendler who eventually took over the club. O'Hara was a frequenter of "21" and contributed a piece to "The Iron Gate," the festschrift for Kriendler published on the 25th anniversary of the club's founding.