Whiskey Road by Parkey Sharkey with Notes and Comments by Paul Coates. self published. 1961. Signed by Sharkey on the front cover. Laid in separately, a note from Sharkey, "Parkey Sharkey/ Yesterday/ Enclosed free copy of/ my book ect (sic.), some/ 1909 pictures, how/ about a trade for/ some of the world/ war one pictures, you/ got. I have been kind/ of on the sick list/ don't feel like driving/ too much how about airplane picture./ Enclosed envelope/ for return mail. I'll/ try and get you a/ plug with Sherwood/ soon. OK./ Parkey Sharkey". 'Sherwood' referred to, is presumably Don Sherwood, who was a very famous radio personality in the San Francisco Bay Area in the sixties, and was also mentioned as one of Sharkey's friends on the dedication page. Also laid in, a one page reprint of a newspaper article about Sharkey.
          BOOK: 6" x 9" staple bound paperback. Cover stains. Some cover wear and a bit of dog-earing on the top tips of the book. Binding staples are rusty. Otherwise, no previous owner markings. No tears, folds or creases to pages. Binding is tight with no looseness to pages. Not ex-library, not remaindered and not a facsimile reprint. For sale by Jon Wobber, bookseller since 1978. sKFo8b

          "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. Which 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. Parkey's "Whiskey Road" was originally self-published and self-distributed in 1961." - from Google books 

 "You will read about the days of PARKEY SHARKEY... in the reform school, his boxing days in California, how he crashed Hollywood..... Parkey is California's most famous character. He gave his old home town back to the Indians- the town Palo Alto, California..... Parkey has now moved to the mountains forever." a blurb from the book