Ted Peckham, Gentlemen in Waiting
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$125.00
$125.00
Peckham, Ted. Gentlemen in Waiting. First Edition. 1940. Book is in very good condition; dust jacket is in very good minus condition—jacket shows light chipping to the spine ends, paper loss to the corners, small edge tears, and mild discoloration. Illustrated by Pelagie Doane.
Ted Peckham, the proprietor of an escort service, was good copy in the café society era. A Midwestern boy whose family was impoverished by the Depression, he relocated to Manhattan in search of a better life and found it by delivering a better evening to lonely women. This book is a collection of the more amusing and outrageous letters he received from both men hoping to work for him and women wanting to hire such men.
“Please supply on escort service man about forty with jodhpurs, flannels, and mess jacket for one weekend . . . He must be able to dance and drink and play bridge—I will pay his Bridge losses but he must give me his gains.”
--Anonymous Woman from Connecticut
Ted Peckham, the proprietor of an escort service, was good copy in the café society era. A Midwestern boy whose family was impoverished by the Depression, he relocated to Manhattan in search of a better life and found it by delivering a better evening to lonely women. This book is a collection of the more amusing and outrageous letters he received from both men hoping to work for him and women wanting to hire such men.
“Please supply on escort service man about forty with jodhpurs, flannels, and mess jacket for one weekend . . . He must be able to dance and drink and play bridge—I will pay his Bridge losses but he must give me his gains.”
--Anonymous Woman from Connecticut
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