The Bottom Of The Harbor
first edition
(1959) · Boston
by MITCHELL, Joseph
Boston: Little Brown & Co, (1959). First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "for Daise Terry, with love, Joe Mitchell, June 9, 1960". Daisy Terry was the office manager at the New Yorker, where Mitchell was employed as a staff writer for most of his career; he continued to appear at the office daily until the end of his life, though in his last years he appears to have written nothing at all. This is Mitchell's third book, containing the story "Up at the Old Hotel", which would serve as the title piece of his collected works, issued by Pantheon in 1992. A tiny nick to the head of the spine, otherwise a fine copy in a slightly rubbed & chipped jacket.. 8vo, boards, dust jacket. A tiny nick to the head of the spine, otherwise a fine copy in a slightly rubbed & chipped jacket. (Inventory #: 10971)