PARNASSUS ON WHEELS.
N.P. Grosset & Dunlap, (1917). 8vo. cloth-backed boards. (viii), 190 pages. Reprint of the first edition. Lacking the dust jacket, else near fine. READ MORE about PARNASSUS ON WHEELS
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PARNASSUS ON WHEELS.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., (1955). 8vo. half cloth boards, dust jacket. 253, (3) pages. First edition with these illustrations. Given out as a dividend by the Book-of-the-Month Club. Illustrated by Douglass Gorsline.Jacket has some tears and chipping to the edges and spine. Else near fine. READ MORE about PARNASSUS ON WHEELS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 134976
A BOOK OF DAYS.
Being a Briefcase packed for his own Pleasure by Christopher Morley and made into a Calendar for sundry Paramours of Print.
New York: John Day Co., 1930. 12mo. cloth. (375) pages. Being a Briefcase packed for his own Pleasure by Christopher Morley and made into a Calendar for sundry Paramours of Print. Lee no.94. An almanac of 366 quotations (mostly literary), one for each day plus an introduction, selected by Morley. Lacking the dust jacket. Soiling to the cloth boards. READ MORE about A BOOK OF DAYS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 52913
OUTWARD BOUND.
Grand Rapids: The Private Press of Oliver A. Wallace, 1924. 8vo. decorated paper-covered boards, label on front cover. 16 pages, with one additional leaf with plate. Limited to 377 numbered copies. Spine lacking, covers lightly worn along edges. Lacking the publisher's box. Else a very good copy. Private press reprint of a Morley article which originally appeared in the NY Evening Post in 1923. (Lee no.41). One of Morley's maritime writings: The sailing ship Tusitalia..... READ MORE about OUTWARD BOUND
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 55530
THE ARROW.
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1927. small 8vo. cloth. (viii), 85 pages. First edition. Jackson no.58. A "fable": a visitor to London is literally shot with Cupid's arrow. It doesn't hurt, but it won't come out either. Fortunately it's invisible to most people... Expanded version of a story first published in Harper's. Ink inscription by former owner in corner of free endpaper. A well-preserved copy lacking the dust jacket. READ MORE about THE ARROW
Price: $16.00 Order nr. 9687
"" ENDLESS RIVERS" (FLIX RIESENBERG, 1879-1959)."
1939. 4to. self paper wrappers. pp.17; 26. An article in The Saturday Evening Review of Literature, December 2, 1939. Some creasing of covers. READ MORE about "" ENDLESS RIVERS" (FLIX RIESENBERG, 1879-1959)."
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 94999
EX LIBRIS.
New York: n.p., 1936. 8vo. cloth. (54) pages. First edition. (Lyle & Brown p.22). Usual foxing along hinges from binding glue used. Spine somewhat age-darkened. READ MORE about EX LIBRIS
Price: $16.00 Order nr. 69877
FRIENDS, ROMANS.
Minneapolis: The Ampersand Club, 1940. small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 21+(1) pages. Limited to 535 copies. Lyle, pp.48-50. Spine of jacket faded. Light chipping to bottom edge of jacket. Exlibrary bookplate on front free endpaper. The first book published by the Ampersand Club of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Text of an address by Morley at the 50th Anniversary dinner of the Minneapolis Public Library, on Dec. 16, 1939. READ MORE about FRIENDS, ROMANS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 53207
NOTES ON BERMUDA.
New York: Henry, Longwell & Another, 1931. 12mo. decorated boards, wrap-around paper spine label, dust jacket. 32 pages. First edition. (Lee no.103). With the later-issued dust jacket from 1933. Jacket with some chipping at spine ends and minor tears along edges, lightly soiled. A near fine copy. Published by "The Smallest Publishing House in the World." Bermuda and Morley's look at bookish relationed subjects to the island. Printed by William Edwin Rudge. READ MORE about NOTES ON BERMUDA
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 3553
PARNASSUS ON WHEELS.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, n.d. 8vo. cloth. (viii), 190 pages. Later printing of this fine bookselling novel. Fine in near fine jacket. READ MORE about PARNASSUS ON WHEELS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 37704
PARNASSUS ON WHEELS.
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1920. small 8vo. cloth-backed boards. viii, 190, (2) pages. Reprint of the first edition. Lacking the dust jacket. Spine faded. Hinges rubbed with some loss at spine ends. Bookplate on front free endpaper. Ownership inscription on front free endpaper. A classic story in this genre. Roger Mifflin travels around the country selling books from his wagon. He meets with romance. From the Thomas M. Whitehead Collection of Books About..... READ MORE about PARNASSUS ON WHEELS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 69274
THUNDER ON THE LEFT.
Among the notionable dictes of antique Rome was the fancy that when men heard thunder on the left the gods had somewhat of special advertisement to impart.
Garden City (NY): Doubleday, Page & Co., 1925. large 12mo. cloth, paper front cover and spine labels, top edge tinted light blue. (x), 273 pages. Among the notionable dictes of antique Rome was the fancy that when men heard thunder on the left the gods had somewhat of special advertisement to impart. First edition. (Lee 52). Lacking the dust jacket. Minor rubbing to covers, else near fine. Children's games, summer at the shore and more..... READ MORE about THUNDER ON THE LEFT
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 53561
TRANSLATIONS FROM THE CHINESE.
New York: George H. Doran Co., 1922. small 8vo. quarter cloth, decorated paper-covered boards, paper labels on front and spine. xvi, 17-87 pages. First edition. Lee no.29. Sixty-two "translations" from an "old Mandarin"; another instance of Morley playing the outsider. Bookplate of Dorothy Allers on front pastedown with her ownership inscription on the front free endpaper in ink. Some rubbing to the covers and spine. Lacking the dust jacket. READ MORE about TRANSLATIONS FROM THE CHINESE
Price: $16.00 Order nr. 52697
WHERE THE BLUE BEGINS.
Philadelphia: J.P. Lipincott, n.d. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 227+(1) pages. Reprint of 1925 edition. (London: William Heinemann and New York: Doubleday, Page & Co.). See Latimore/Haskell Arthur Rackham: A Bibliography, 60. Illustrated by Rackham. Color frontispiece. Dust jacket torn at spine. Boards soiled. Back hinge cracked. Foxing on edges. Inscription on front free endpaper. READ MORE about WHERE THE BLUE BEGINS
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 108485
TWO CENTURIES OF BRUCE ROGERS WITH A PROLOGUE "B R'S SECRET PASSION" BY CHRISTOPHER MORLEY.
New York: Philip C. Duschnes, (1937). 12mo. paper wrappers. vi, 44, (2) pages. Limited to 550 copies. A fine copy. Printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. 216 items are listed in this bibliography of Rogers; the Morley introduction in 3 pages. READ MORE about TWO CENTURIES OF BRUCE ROGERS WITH A PROLOGUE "B R'S SECRET PASSION" BY...
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