Stated First Modern Library edition, 1940 (confirmed by number of titles on dust jacket). Christopher Morley's novel is described on the jacket as the ". . .story of an obscure man caught in the act of being human." This work originally published by Doubleday, Doran in 1934. Includes an introduction by the author. --- In Toledano spine 8 / red cloth / gilt titling stamped on black cover & spine blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style g, verso advertises 274 titles in ML catalog. ML #74.2. --- With prior owner's discreet markings to verso of front free endpaper, unobtrusive H. C. Capwell Co. of Oakland, Calif. bookseller label to rear paste-down, and some dulling to cover gilding, otherwise a tightly-bound, unmarked, clean copy. Unclipped dust jacket ($0.95), with some chipping and scuffing to extremities, else bright, intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; (15), x-xii, (2), 350, (6, ads) pages
Title: Human Being, A Novel Modern Library #74.2
Edition: First Edition Thus
Location Published: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: 1940
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Categories: Other
Stock No.: 87069
