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letterhead File:Print of head of a hat-wearing man JOSEPH THE PROVIDER BOOKS BOUGHT & SOLD Ralph B. Sipper 903 State Street Santa Barbara, Calif. 93101 (805) 962-6862

5/4/76 Dear Jack,

   Call me Mr Wonderful (nobody else does), one of the first books to waltz out of the catalogue was underlined:  A World to Win, even though it arrived too late for me to quote from your lovely inscription.   The book went to the Lilly Library at the University of Indiana, where it is in the best of homes, and rightly so.
   The catalogue is keeping me hopping.  I thought that Nelson Rockefeller had all the money in the country (outside of the fortune that some one ripped off from Howard Hughes), but there are still a few people around who buy good books.  Just enough not to discourage me from going out to get a real job and not enough to permit me to lie in bed watching soap operas and eating bon-bons.  ah, well . . . .
    Let me know if there is anything I can do for you from my out-of-print book world.  And stay in touch.  I've got to cut off now to pack some packs.    Best, Ralph