signed first edition
1947 · Garden City, NY
by Liebling, A.J.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1947. First Edition. First edition. Signed by A. J. Liebling, inscribed to former owner on front free endpaper. 284 pp. with tipped-in erratum slip. Publisher's gray cloth lettered in dark green. About Very Good with surface-level insecting to front board, a little toning to contents, dust jacket price-clipped with dulling to spine panel, splits along both flap folds' versos repaired with archival mending tissue. A rare signature from the American journalist, known for his columns in The New Yorker as well as his sportswriting. This collection is of his best New Yorker columns as "The Wayward Pressman" that critically and humorously examined the American press.
(Inventory #: 140940966)