Alimony: The American Tragedy [Signed & Inscribed; Typed Letter, Signed, Laid in]

New York: Vantage Press, [1952]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); original cloth in green and brown dust jacket; xiii,[1],329pp. Jacket very chipped and worn with some paper flaws to front flap affecting text with loss of meaning of a few words, rear flap excised and affixed to pastedown as issued. Near Fine in Good or better jacket. Inscribed and signed "To A. Stewart Phillips, with kindest regards. - Charles Wilson - Sept. 22, 1952." Author bio blurb (presumably from rear jacket flap) affixed to front pastedown as issued, beginning with the assurance that "Dr. Charles Wilner, author of Alimony: The American Tragedy, is not a misogynist." With typed letter signed by Wilner to the same A. Stewart Phillips, whose contents are of a rather aggressive nature: "Some time in 1935 when I visited you at your office relative to some button business, I happened to remark to you, that I was planning to write books. I can not [sic] help but to reflect, upon your facial expression laughing, me being an author." Wilner insists that Phillips eat crow, and describes his intention of writings "my two final volumes of about 1500 printed pages titled 'Women and Race,'" though OCLC reveals that Alimony was the author's only published work.