first edition Hardcover
1941 · San Francisco
by Lewis, Oscar
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1941. Hardcover. [iv] 14p., 8.25x11.5 inches, frontis-portrait, color plate laid-in, introduction, two b&w photos tipped-in to plates, hinges cracked, tanning to endpapers, shelfwear, cloth over blue boards, bumped, paper spine label. Originally written to be a booklet for guests at the San Francisco insurance agent's 75th birthday, he died shortly before the day. Published posthumously. The illustration laid-in is of Bender getting on a train with three racial stereotype African American porters bowing to him with the caption "Albert Bender and other benders
(Inventory #: 168984)