Sharkey Parkey (2 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. Pp. 40. Stapled gray wraps lettered in black with image of Sharkey on front wrap. Very Good, some soiling and staining to covers. Signed to "Bob" by the author on front wrap. Recently reissued in a 60 year anniversary edition. Parkey Sharkey was an infamous hard-drinking cab driver, scofflaw and pugilist from Palo Alto, California. Many actually believed that journalist Paul Coates of the LA Daily Mirror invented Parkey Sharkey to keep his column alive in the late 1950s. That was not true at all. Parkey's letters and cards were 100 percent legit. And yes, he actually appeared on Groucho Marx's "You Bet Your Life" more than once.Scarce. OCLC records 2 copies. Now housed in a removable, clear archival sleeve with an acid-free backing.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 40 pages of cabbie Sharkey's memoirs rambling around Palo Alto, Ca. Much correspondence included between Paul Coates & himself. Published by the author (limitation unknown). Stapled wraps. Contents clean & tight, without marks. Pale blue stiff wraps are clean with slight tan-fading around the perameter. Boldly SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on front cover , dated "1966 back". Very scarce first edition, SIGNED even more so. Signed by Author(s).