Less than Nothing - or The Life and Times of Sterling Finny.
New York: The New Yorker, 1927. Hardcover. First Edition. Unpag. 8vo. Minimal wear to boards, bumping to corners and tiny losses; green cloth spine with light fraying at head and foot. Light green title label pasted to front board. Text block has separated from boards. Clean and crisp within. Issue without dust jacket. Housed in custom clamshell box.
E. B. White's (1899-1985) first book, a collection of advertisements that ran in The New Yorker that White wrote anonymously and photographed himself with mannequins from Wanamaker's Department Store. [Hall A1] White, ever the humorist, inscribed this copy to himself: "To E.B. White without whose skill with a camera, untiring desire to make money and patience, I and Flora would still be in Wanamaker's where we belong..... More