signed Unbound
by SHAW, Joseph T.
Unbound. Very Good. Typed Letter Signed ("Joseph T. Shaw") dated 3 December 1948 on the letterhead of Sydney A. Sanders Literary Agents to Alden Norton of Popular Publications, asking for a release to be executed for a Raoul Whitfield story "Soft City." Two staples near the top of the letter have been pulled through resulting in modest chips, penciled note about the release, presumably in the hand of Norton, else very good. Shaw was an author, but more importantly the publisher of *Black Mask*, the influential pulp magazine which furthered the careers of Whitfield, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, among many others. (Inventory #: 83673)