The Haunted Bookshop (Lambskin Library, No. 13)

New York: Doubleday Page and Company, 1925 Reprint of the 1919 original. Hard cover, 12mo in "Imported English red leather" with publisher's DP decorative tree-topped logo to front board, title to spine blocked in gold, publisher's illustrated logo brown and white endpapers, author intro. dated 1919, 289pp. plus 2pp. publisher's series advertising list. CONDITION: NEAR FINE. Some scuffs to spine and a few minor marks to boards. Very mildly toned pages. **This is the second and considered the best, biblio-thriller novels of the Pennsylvania-born author, journalist and editor Christopher Morley (1890-1957). Mysterious happenings, murder and the disappearance of a rare book confound the staff at an old bookshop owned by Roger Mifflin, the protagonist introduced in Morley's title of 1817, "Parnassus on Wheels." The story also inspired the recent (2021) feature film, called "Miss Willoughby and The Haunted Bookshop" starring Nathalie Cox and Kelsey Grammar.**The Lambskin Library series by Doubleday Page & Co., was an early example of a succession of marketing solutions used by the early twentieth century book publishers to sell a back-list of titles in collectible form, using print advertising to appeal to the expanding market of book buyers who were eager to purchase either whole sets, or individual numbers. The Lambskin Library ran from 1922-1934, and originally sold at 90 cents. (More can be read about this series at seriesofseriesdotorg.). Hard Cover. Near Fine.