Up in the old hotel and other stories /
Joseph Mitchell.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Pantheon Books, c1992.
- xiii, 718 p. ; 25 cm.
McSorley's wonderful saloon. The old house at home -- Mazie -- Hit on the head with a cow -- Professor Sea Gull -- A spism and a spasm -- Lady Olga -- Evening with a gifted child -- A sporting man -- The cave dwellers -- King of the Gypsies -- The Gypsy women -- The deaf-mutes club -- Santa Claus Smith -- The don't-swear man -- Obituary of a gin mill -- Houdini's picnic -- The Mohawks in high steel -- All you can hold for five bucks -- A mess of clams -- The same as monkey glands -- Goodbye, Shirley Temple -- On the wagon -- The kind old blonde -- I couldn't dope it out -- The downfall of fascism in Black Ankle County -- I blame it all on Mama -- Uncle Dockery and the independent bull. Old Mr. Flood. Old Mr. Flood -- The black clams -- Mr. Flood's party. The bottom of the harbor. Up in the old hotel -- The bottom of the harbor -- The rats on the waterfront -- Mr. Hunter's grave -- Dragger captain -- The Riverman -- Joe Gould's secret.
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