Author: MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER
Title: Internal Revenue
Description: New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc, 1933. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking the accompanying dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some sunning / fading to the spine of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name on the front endpaper and address label on the front pastedown page. "Much is to be learned by putting the family into the car and going off at random. Our only instruction was that of the skipper on the last page of Conrad's The Rescue - Steer north. The children, raised on Long Island, had never seen a mountain." "Morley's first novel, Parnassus on Wheels, appeared in 1917. The protagonist, traveling bookseller Roger Mifflin, appeared again in his second novel, The Haunted Bookshop in 1919. In 1920 Morley returned to New York City to write a column (The Bowling Green) for the New York Evening Post. Baker Street Irregulars Fletcher Pratt, Christopher Morley and Rex Stout (1944) He was one of the founders and a longtime contributing editor of the Saturday Review of Literature. A highly gregarious man, he was the mainstay of what he dubbed the "Three Hours for Lunch Club". Out of enthusiasm for the Sherlock Holmes stories, he helped found the Baker Street Irregulars and wrote the introduction to the standard omnibus edition of The Complete Sherlock Holmes. He also wrote an introduction to the standard omnibus edition of The Complete Works of Shakespeare in 1936, although Morley called it an "Introduction to Yourself as a Reader of Shakespeare".". Very Good+ .
Keywords: Modern Fiction First Editions Christopher Morley Travel Humor Families
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Title: Internal Revenue
Description: New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc, 1933. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking the accompanying dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some sunning / fading to the spine of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name on the front endpaper and address label on the front pastedown page. "Much is to be learned by putting the family into the car and going off at random. Our only instruction was that of the skipper on the last page of Conrad's The Rescue - Steer north. The children, raised on Long Island, had never seen a mountain." "Morley's first novel, Parnassus on Wheels, appeared in 1917. The protagonist, traveling bookseller Roger Mifflin, appeared again in his second novel, The Haunted Bookshop in 1919. In 1920 Morley returned to New York City to write a column (The Bowling Green) for the New York Evening Post. Baker Street Irregulars Fletcher Pratt, Christopher Morley and Rex Stout (1944) He was one of the founders and a longtime contributing editor of the Saturday Review of Literature. A highly gregarious man, he was the mainstay of what he dubbed the "Three Hours for Lunch Club". Out of enthusiasm for the Sherlock Holmes stories, he helped found the Baker Street Irregulars and wrote the introduction to the standard omnibus edition of The Complete Sherlock Holmes. He also wrote an introduction to the standard omnibus edition of The Complete Works of Shakespeare in 1936, although Morley called it an "Introduction to Yourself as a Reader of Shakespeare".". Very Good+ .
Keywords: Modern Fiction First Editions Christopher Morley Travel Humor Families
Price: US$ 20.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 34650
- Book number: 34650
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