"Gentlemen In Waiting" 1940 PECKHAM, Ted
$350
PECKHAM, Ted
[126] pp.
E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc.
1940
First Edition
8 3/8" x 5 7/8"
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 amusing and outrageous letters he received from both men hoping to work for him and women wanting to hire such men.
“Please supply an 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.”