New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1925. First Edition. Very Good+/No Dustjacket. Clean rust red cloth boards with clean unchipped paste-on label on cover and spine. Hint of wear to corner tips, no fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. 265 pgs. Very small previous owner label (very small return address label) on front fixed endpaper. Nice clean, solid copy. 8 vo. Essays. View More...
New York: Christopher Morley, 1936. First Edition . Near Fine/Very Good. Clean hardcover book in its original dust jacket. Golden brown cloth-covered boards with gold lettering on cover, red title box on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Clean dust jacket designed by Georg Salter has slight edge wear, about 1/4" chipping at top spine edge, a few tiny nicks. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. "A small Anthology, printed and bound (and sold) at ... View More...
Garden City, NY: Doubleday Doran, 1942. Stated First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. Stated First Edition in original unclipped dust jacket. Green cloth boards with blind stamped decoration on cover and spine, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or fraying. Slight fading. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 268 pages with index and glossary. Dust jacket is not price clipped (2.00 on front inside flap), has shallow chipping at upper and lower spine edges, a few tiny edge nicks and corner wear. Enclosed in new archiva... View More...
Green cloth boards with blind-stamped decoration, gold title bands on spine. Some fading to spine. No fraying. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages and edges are clean; tasteful custom bookplate on front pastedown; no other marks. 268 pages. View More...
New York: The Procyon Press, Inc., 1947. First Edition. Very Good/Good. Haenigsen, Illustrator. First Edition, SIGNED by author. Clean glossy illustrated boards are unfaded. Wear to corners, no tears. Binding is tight, no cracking; pages and edges are clean. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper: "To Jean Dingle with Best Wishes from "Our Bill" and "Penny" - Haenigsen." Unpaginated, story told in comic book format with illustrations by the author. Preface by Christopher Morley. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped (2.50 on front inside flap); small edge & corner chips, numerous closed t... View More...
New York: George H. Doran, 1924. Early Printing. Very Good+/No Dustjacket. Very clean blue cloth boards with bright unchipped orange lettering on cover and spine. Very slight wear at base of spine. Binding is tight & square, no cracking, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean decorated endpapers. Previous owner name in light pencil on front fly leaf. 299 pgs. Clean, solid book. 8vo. Fiction. View More...
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1917. Reprint. Very Good+ /Very Good. Grosset & Dunlap edition in dust jacket. Bright blue cloth boards with black cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. Very light soiling to cloth, no bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. 190 pages. Illustrated dust jacket is clean, has edge wear, short closed edge tears; surface scrape (size of nickel) enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Christopher Morley's first novel, and a wonderful one, at t... View More...
Garden City: Doubleday Page & Co., 1927. Early Printing. Very Good+/Very Good. Very clean striped orange and black boards with black cloth spine, orange title box on spine. Light wear to one corner tip. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Orange endpapers. Tasteful previous owner bookplate on front free endpaper. Pages are clean and bright. 171 pgs. Clean orange and black dustjacket is not price clipped, has slight edgewear, 1" closed edge tear, thumb-size chip at top rear of spine. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 12 Mo. Fiction. View More...
Stated First Edition in illustrated dust jacket. Clean tan boards with brown cloth spine, unchipped gold lettering on spine; paper title label on cover has one tiny ink spot, otherwise bright, clean and unworn. No bumping or fraying to book. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages are clean with clean endpapers - no names, writing or bookplates. Illustrations by Walter Jack Duncan. 242 pages + four pages of publisher's advertising at rear of book. Dust jacket is clean, has slight edge wear, short closed edge tears; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. View More...
Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Co., 1929. Early Printing. Very Good/No Dustjacket. Clean unfaded black cloth boards with yellow title box, green lettering on cover, yellow lettering on spine. No bumping, slight fraying to top corner of spine. Binding is tight & square. Pages and edges are clean. Clean decorated endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 68 pgs. Illustrated with drawings and black & white plates. 8vo. Theater. View More...
Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1929. Stated First Edition. Very Good+/fair. "First Edition" stated on copyright page in dustjacket. Very clean unfaded black cloth boards with clean unchipped paper label on cover, yellow lettering on spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean. Clean illustrated endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 68 pp. Illustrated in black & white. Jacket is a bit tattered with 1" chip at base of spine, shallow chipping to edges, browning and closed tears at spine fold. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. View More...
Clean hardcover book in dust jacket. Brown paper-covered boards with clean bright unchipped label on cover and spine; small spot of wear to one corner tip. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean. Previous owner name neatly penned on front free endpaper. 114 pages. Clean jacket has edgewear, small piece missing at center spine, nearly separated at front spine fold; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. View More...
Stated First Edition in original dust jacket. Beige cloth boards with red horizontal stripes on front and rear cover, red title box with gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear, slight discoloration to board edges from contact with paper dust jacket; faint foxing to spine cloth. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages are clean but slightly yellowed. Clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Seven full page illustrations including frontispiece. 290 pages. Dust jacket is clean but has edge wear, v-shaped chip at top rear panel edge, detached front flap; enclos... View More...
Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1949. Stated First Edition. Very Good+/No Dustjacket. Clean black cloth boards with blue title box, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean. Clean blue endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 275 pgs. 8vo. Fiction. View More...
Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1944. Stated First Edition. Near FIne/Very Good+. Stated First Edition in unclipped original dust jacket. Clean black cloth boards with red lettering on cover and spine. Hint of light surface wear to spine corners, no fraying. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; small, neatly penned previous owner name at top edge of front free endpaper. 118 pgs. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, unchipped, has short closed tear at top of spine with some browning from tape repair at tear site. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover... View More...
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1947. Stated First Edition. Very Good+/Very Good. Carl Rose, Illustrator. Clean black cloth boards with blind-stamped illustration on cover, gold lettering on spine. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. No names, writing or bookplates. 120 pgs. with drawings by Carl Rose. Dustjacket has faintest hint of soiling, is not price clipped, slight edge & corner wear. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Sage observations and amusing comments from Mr. Morley. 8 vo. Humor. View More...
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. Stated First edition. Very Good++/Very Good+. Walter Jack Duncan, Illustrator. "First Edition" stated on title page. Very clean light orange boards with clean unchipped paper label on cover, clean unfaded brown cloth spine with gold lettering. No bumping or fraying; tiny spot of wear to two corner tips. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or bookplates. 304 pgs. Illustrated by Walter Jack Duncan. Illustrated dustjacket is not price clipped (1.75 on lower corner of front inside flap),... View More...
Garden City: Doubleday Page & Co., 1926. Stated First Edition. Very Good+/No Dustjacket. Clean black boards with black ribbed cloth spine, unchipped orange paper label on cover and spine. Coloring on spine label has dulled, but clearly legible. Wear to corner tips. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Previous owner name and date neatly penned at top edge of front fixed endpaper. Tiny ink-stamped name (same) on back corner of rear free endpaper. 273 pgs. 8vo. Fiction. View More...
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1957. Stated First Edition. Very Good+/Very Good. "First Edition" stated on copyright page, in clean original jacket. Clean rust brown cloth boards with white lettering on cover, black spine with white lettering. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers, clean black top-stained upper page edges; no names, writing or bookplates. 248 pages. Dustjacket is clean & bright, price clipped, shallow chipping at top spine edge (1/4"), old tape reinforcement on reverse side of dustjacket at top spine edge. ... View More...
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1942. Stated First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. Stated First Edition in original unclipped dust jacket. Clean blue cloth boards with yellow lettering on spine. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers. No names, writing or bookplates. 469 pages. Clean bright dust jacket is not price clipped, has a few tiny edge chips and short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. This novel is the story of Geoffrey Barton, an English boy who came to the Unite... View More...
