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Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1949. First edition, this a presentation copy inscribed, signed & dated in ink by Liebling at the ffep to Alger & Priscilla Hiss. 8vo (8.25" x 5.75"), 251 pages. Publisher's cloth-patterned yellow paper over boards lettered in brown on the spine, lacking the dust jacket.Spine darkened, soiled, upper joint splitting, shallow loss at spne extremities, corners bruised & rubbed through, a worn but historically significant copy.
"For Alger and/ Priscilla Hiss,/ Joe Liebling,/ with friendship./ July 14, 1949."
The second collection of Liebling's articles critical of New York newspapers which were originally published in the NEW YORKER, this copy presented to Hiss & wife exactly one week after his first trial ended in a hung jury. During the course of the trial Liebling formed a warm friendship with the defendant, & thereafter aggressively criticized the House Un-American Activities Committee.
