Must be the week for airing laundry of literary icons! Not only is a
tell-all about reclusive JD Salinger about to break in book and film, but...Eugene O'Neill's shorts are for sale. Not
THOSE shorts. I mean h
is real, bonafide boxers which can now be yours for a mere $1750. But even if you're not in the market for century-old skivvies, a visit to the purveyor is worth a trip if you're in the vicinity of Salisbury, CT.
Johnnycake Bookstore is a booklover's bookstore, the kind NYC used to be full of: stocked with first editions, myriad books you've meant to read and run by a friendly bibliophile who knows his stuff. (Sorry, Dan, I'm holding out for Virginia Woolf's corset.)
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Proprietor Dan Dwyer chats up a customer |
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"With O'Neill's monogram upper left waistband, blue
high-grade pima cotton, size 34, from Bullock & Jones, San Francisco.
Provenance: Purchased early 80s by a book collector from Boston-area
booksellers, who had acquired these, along with books and other ephemera, from
the O'Neill estate when it sold off O'Neill's summer place in Marblehead Neck,
MA."
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