Joseph MITCHELL / MY EARS ARE BENT ~ First Edition, 1938, hardcover, New Yorker

Description: MY EARS ARE BENT Mitchell, Joseph Published by Sheridan House, New York, 1938. First Edition. Original green cloth hardcover; frontice plus rear photo and of the author; light scuffing to edges ; spine head edge wear; crease upper corner title page and tiny moisture spot bottom title page; darker toning to front and rear blank endpapers ; normal toning to text else good binding sound ; see photos. The author's rare first book. Famed New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell, as a young newspaper reporter in 1930s New York, interviewed fan dancers, street evangelists, voodoo conjurers, not to mention a lady boxer who also happened to be a countess. Mitchell haunted parts of the city now vanished: the fish market, burlesque houses, tenement neighborhoods, and storefront churches. Whether he wrote about a singing first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers or a nudist who does a reverse striptease, Mitchell brilliantly illuminated the humanity in the oddest New Yorkers. These pieces, written primarily for The World-Telegram and The Herald Tribune, highlight his abundant gifts of empathy and observation, and give us the full-bodied picture of the famed New Yorker writer Mitchell would become.

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