Morley, Christoper.

PARSONS' PLEASURE.

New York: George H. Doran, 1923. small 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, paper labels on front cover and spine, dust jacket. 137 pages. First edition, first issue. (Lee no.37). Eighty-five poems by C. Morley, with several silhouette illustrations and a title page vignette. The dust jacket gives the title as "Parson's Pleasure" (note the difference in the position of the apostrophe); the paper labels on the cover and spine misspell the title in the same..... READ MORE about PARSONS' PLEASURE

Price: $25.00  other currencies  Order nr. 52618

Morley, Christopher.

FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY, A SOLILOQUY.

New York: the Marchbanks Press, 1937. 12mo. paper wrappers. 10, (2) pages. First separate edition. (Lyle & Brown p.36). Reprinted from the Saturday Review of Literature. Scarce. READ MORE about FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY, A SOLILOQUY

Price: $45.00  other currencies  Order nr. 9725

Morley, Christopher.

FRIENDS, ROMANS.

Minneapolis: The Ampersand Club, 1940. small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 21+(1) pages. Limited to 535 copies. Lyle, pp.48-50. 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. Jacket spine faded. READ MORE about FRIENDS, ROMANS

Price: $25.00  other currencies  Order nr. 52681

Morley, Christopher.

ONE ACT PLAYS.

Garden City (NY): Doubleday, Page & Co., 1924. 1924, large 12mo., quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, paper label on spine, dust jacket. (viii), 174 pages. First edition. (Lee no.44). "The Rehearsal," "Thursday Evening," "East of Eden" and three other one-act plays by Christopher Morley (although the dust jacket claims that there are seven plays!). Name (of a previous owner?) written in ink on front free endpaper. Covers rubbed along edges at top and bottom, covers and..... READ MORE about ONE ACT PLAYS

Price: $75.00  other currencies  Order nr. 52600

Mortimer, Ruth.

A PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE.

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, (1980). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. vi, 50 pages. Issued on the 50th Anniversary of the Hanes Foundation. Covers slightly soiled. READ MORE about A PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE

Price: $15.00  other currencies  Order nr. 16765

Mott, Frank Luther.

GOLDEN MULTITUDES, THE STORY OF BEST SELLERS IN THE UNITED STATES.

New York: The Macmillan Co., 1947. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 358 pages. First edition. Covers the Colonial period through the 20th century. Jacket worn with pieces missing. Presentation on half-title "To Forrest Sapulding with the highest personal regards, Frank Luther Mott, 10/28/47." READ MORE about GOLDEN MULTITUDES, THE STORY OF BEST SELLERS IN THE UNITED STATES

Price: $25.00  other currencies  Order nr. 96272

Muir, Percy H.

GOETHE BIBLIOGRAPHY WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO FAUST EIN FRAGMENT 1790.

London: The Collector Ltd, 1977. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. pp. 341-352. Offprint from The Book Collector, Vol. 26, no. 3, Autumn, 1977 which discuss the Goethe and Faust bibliographies. Presentation copy, "For Trevor, this trifle, from Percy." READ MORE about GOETHE BIBLIOGRAPHY WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO FAUST EIN FRAGMENT 1790

Price: $35.00  other currencies  Order nr. 59720

Muir, Percy.

" OTTO ERIC DEUTSCH, A PROFILE."

London: The Private Library, 1975. small 8vo. paper wrappers. pp.142-148. An article in The Private Library, Second Series, Volume 8:4, Winter 1975. Discusses some of the accomplishments of Deutsch, Austrian musicologist. READ MORE about " OTTO ERIC DEUTSCH, A PROFILE."

Price: $15.00  other currencies  Order nr. 59840

Navari, Leonora.

CYPRUS AND THE LEVANT: RARE BOOKS FROM THE SYLVIA IOANNOU FOUNDATION.

Athens, Greece: AdVenture SA, 2016. 10 x 13.4 inches. hardcover, cloth, in matching slipcase. 3 vols, 712 pages. This collectible catalogue in three volumes takes us on a journey through the history and culture of Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean, with detailed descriptions of 782 of the most important rare editions and manuscriptsfrom the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation collection, one of the most significant private repositories of works on Cyprus worldwide. The remarkable wealth of information..... READ MORE about CYPRUS AND THE LEVANT: RARE BOOKS FROM THE SYLVIA IOANNOU FOUNDATION

Price: $440.00  other currencies  Order nr. 129776

Newton, A. Edward.

A THOMAS HARDY MEMORIAL.

Daylesford, Pa. Privately printed, 1931. tall 12mo. blue paper wrappers, cord-tied. 18 pages with a frontispiece showing the Hardy memorial. Loosely inserted is a four page tabloid issued by Newton on Thanksgiving Day but usually found inserted in this greeting. Concerns Newton's efforts to get a memorial to Hardy erected in England (Fleck B.25). With two reproductions meant to accompany the folder with illustrations by Jimmy Hatlo. Presentation "Mr. & Mrs. Earl S. Babst from..... READ MORE about A THOMAS HARDY MEMORIAL

Price: $56.00  other currencies  Order nr. 122879

Nolan, J. Bennett.

PRINTER STRAHAN'S BOOK ACCOUNT, A COLONIAL CONTROVERSY.

Reading (Pa.): The Bar of Berks County, 1939. tall 8vo. cloth. xiv, 143 pages. One of 50 numbered copies inscribed (by the author) for The International Benjamin Franklin Society. "Recently a happy chance has resurrected some letters of James Read, the Pennsylvania lawyer ... These missives, neglected for nearly two centuries ... chiefly concern a debt owing by Read to Franklin's friend and correspondent William Strahan, the Scottish printer and bookseller, long resident in London..... READ MORE about PRINTER STRAHAN'S BOOK ACCOUNT, A COLONIAL CONTROVERSY

Price: $125.00  other currencies  Order nr. 80534