THE SURE THING
signed first edition Hardcover in jacket
1949 · New York
by Miller, Merle
New York: William Sloane Associates. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1949. First Printing. Hardcover in jacket. Hard-bound in paper covered boards with a white cloth spine, with gray stamping, in a toned dust jacket with some edge-wear. There is a small light brown stain to the upper joint. Contents are bright and the book is signed by the author, Merle Miller, on the front free end-page. From the collection of Lulu Slocum Teeter and her daughter Mary Teeter. Lulu was the manager of the F. & R. Lazarus department store bookshop in Columbus, Ohio in the "golden era" of such stores, from 1926 to 1950. She arranged hundreds of "signing events" during that period and was a well know figure in the "book trade." Her daughter, Mary, was the director of the Bexley, Ohio Public Library for many years, retiring in 1974. . (Inventory #: 74786)