Mitchell, Joseph. MY EARS ARE BENT

New York: Sheridan House, [1938]. First edition of the author's first book. 8vo. With a droll frontispiece photograph of Mitchell, who is sitting in a chair with newspapers strewn around his bare feet, one of which completely obscures his face. Mitchell, along with A.J. Liebling and St. Clair McKelway, would become a New Yorker star of the first rank during the magazine's heyday. His carefully limned portraits of New York low-life institutions (McSorley's Tavern) and individuals (Joe Gould and his putative oral history of the world) earned him critical praise as well as imitators. A resplendent copy in a bright dust jacket of a poorly made book. Hardcover