Author: MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER
Title: Parnassus on Wheels (First Modern Library Edition, ML #190. 1)
Description: New York: The Modern Library, 1931. First Trade Edition. Flexible cloth. 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, else a tightly-bound, unmarked copy.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; (4), 190, (4, ads) pages. Good+ with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Modern Library Editions
Title: Parnassus on Wheels (First Modern Library Edition, ML #190. 1)
Description: New York: The Modern Library, 1931. First Trade Edition. Flexible cloth. 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, else a tightly-bound, unmarked copy.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; (4), 190, (4, ads) pages. Good+ with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Modern Library Editions
Price: US$ 29.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 87368
- Book number: 87368