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... View More...
A stated First Modern Library edition, 1931 (confirmed) of Christopher Morley's cherished 1917 novel, featuring his Professor Roger Mifflin and Helen McGill characters. The professor has a mobile bookshop in a van, pulled by his horse, Pegasus. --- In Toledano spine 6 / green balloon cloth-covered limp boards / gilt titling on spine / gilt torchbearer device to front cover / dark topstain / orange Kent endpapers. Lacks the dust jacket. ML #190.1. --- With sunning to spine, inked & penciled notations to corner of front free endpaper, light foxing to textblock edges and mild age-toning to leaves... View More...
In decorated light blue paperboard covers w/navy ship illustration and lettering, front cover. In blue quarter cloth binding, sunned at spine. Volume solid and tight, but with foxing, especially at top edge and on covers. Likely insertion of acidic paper has left stains at title page and on facing verso of previous page. With penciled presentation remarks, front free endpaper. Author is noted for his 'Parnassus on Wheels'; this novel first published 1922. ; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall) ; 215 pages View More...
