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John Mistletoe
by Morley, Christopher
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1931. First Edition. Octavo. 455pp., signed by the author and tipped onto the front pastedown is a letter from Morley on The New York Evening Post letterhead to an unidentified person, ...."that the letter was forwarded to him from Doubleday".... This person evidently wanted to reprint a few passages of Morley's work. Morley writes in a somewhat jokingly way ...."the book from which the passages are taken is purchasable at bookstores, and that the equally perplexed perpetrator of the work and his wife, his four children, his serving maid his dog and his automobile and the mortgage on his house, all desire nourishment from possible royalties why then good man, no harm, no harm at all, world ensure! Good luck-yours indeed, Christopher Morley". bound in green cloth, spine lettering gilt over black, spine darkened, in unclipped dust jacket with darkening to spine and a bit of chipping to spine ends. A very good copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021788
- Title
- John Mistletoe
- Author
- Morley, Christopher
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1931
- Keywords
- Signed Letter Dust Jacket First Edition 1st
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About the Seller
Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
Biblio member since 2006
Scottsdale, Arizona
About Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
Alcuin Books located in Old Town Scottsdale is a store with 15,000 serious books for the collector or scholar. We have ample parking in front of the store for those who wish to browse our holdings.
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- Gilt
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- Octavo
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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