Description
Doubleday, Doran & Company, Garden City, New York. Published 1935. Hardcover, viii, 277 pp.; 21 cm; first edition (stated); illustrated with three leaves (six pages) of black-and-white facsimile reproductions.
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Condition & notes
In Good condition with a Poor dust jacket. Brick red cloth-covered boards with small blind-stamped initials on the front cover and gilt lettering on the spine. Mild shelf wear and edge wear to the covers; binding tight. Moderate toning to the endpapers; mild toning to the pages, otherwise unmarked. Tan paper dust jacket with several large chips and tears, particularly to the spine and rear panel; tears amateur-repaired with white tape on the verso; moderate toning and soiling overall. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Christopher Morley (1890-1957) was a prolific American novelist, essayist, journalist, and one of the founding editors of the Saturday Review of Literature; he is best remembered for his bookish novels Parnassus on Wheels (1917) and The Haunted Bookshop (1919), which became touchstones of twentieth-century bibliophile literature. [From the front jacket flap] "Dr. Lee includes in his bibliographical record of Christopher Morley's books full collations of Mr. Morley's separate writings, short collations of the books to which he has made contributions and of books by other writers giving comments on his work. Books by Christopher Morley have been reprinted in French, German, Swedish, Danish, Dutch, and Czecho-Slovakian. This record confines itself to a description of first printings in the English language, done in the United States, England, Australia and Canada. This is the first full bibliography of Christopher Morley and will be invaluable to the great body of book lovers who have been collecting his first editions ever since they made their first delighted discovery of Parnassus on Wheels and The Haunted Bookshop." Contents: Explanatory; Part One: Separate Works; Part Two: Contributions and Introductions; Part Three: Morleyana; Part Four: Appendix; Index.