Liebling, A[bbott] J[oseph]. The Telephone Booth Indian

THE TELEPHONE BOOTH INDIAN. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1942. First edition. 8vo. The author’s second book. Tales of the urban raffish in which Liebling displays pitch-perfect renderings of his subject's speech patterns: "He knows to get a dollar." A spectacular copy of this cheaply manufactured wartime book, whose entirely unfaded dust jacket suggests it was preserved in a time capsule eight decades earlier. Rare thus, to put it mildly. Hardcover.