Ex Libris: A small Anthology, printed and bound (and sold) at the First National Fair Sponsored by the New York Times. by Morley, Christopher (compiler) - 1936

This little scrapbook was put together during several rainy days, to be printed as a souvenir of the First National Book Fair in November 1936, a festival sponsored by the New York Times and the National Association of Book Pub- lishers. I (The Author) have purposely avoided the famous golden texts and purple passages of the bibliophile's evangel. You will not find Emily Dickinson's "There is no frigate like a book", nor Wordsworth's "Books are a substantial world," etc.; not even the well-loved but now too familiar rubrics from Lamb, Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Stevenson, Gissing and the others. Most of the fragments here are contemporary, and it was the editor's pleasure to choose not only "literary" bits but also odds and ends of trade and technical palaver.

New York: The New York Times and The National Association of Book Publishers, 1936. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. A Very Good copy in tan cloth lettered in gold, in a lightly edge-worn Good dust jacket with a small sticker-removal scuff on the front panel.

New York: New York Times/National Association of Book Publishers, 1936. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Tan cloth, lettered in gilt. Firm binding, clean interior. Mildly toned along joints and endpaper gutters, mild dampstaining to approx. 40% of rear cover along fore-edge that does not extend to text block, merely a cosmetic blemish..

New York: First National Book Fair. Light wear. Clean text. Dust jacket Has tears and edge wear. H13 . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1936.

DiVinne-Brown Corporation, 1936. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Pages unmarked. Discoloration in gutters of end pages. Dust jacket edgeworn and moderately shelfworn. Binding firm..

New York: First National Book Fair, 1936. Octavo, gold cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, unpaginated. Near-Fine, with light foxing to covers.

New York: Privately Printed, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. First printing. 12mo. in buff cloth covered boards printed in black and spine stamped in red and black. near fine (a touch rubbed and with offestting to the pastedowns). In the original color illustrated dust jacket printed by DeVinne-Brown of New York, very good with some edge wear and shallow chipping and a short closed taer bottom edge front panel. An anthology of 75 short pieces concerning books, book printing, and collecting gathered by Morley and printed and bound at the First National Book Fair sponsored by the New York Times and the National Association of Book Publishers in 1936.

1 . Hardcover. Very Good. A small anthology, printed and bound (and sold) at the First National Book Fair sponsored by the New York Times and The National Association of Book Publishers. Compiled at their request. New York 1936. Very good.

NY: New York Times; National Association of Book Publishers, 1936. First Edition, First Printing; unpaginated; clean, unmarked pages; tan c w/gilt titles; ownr's plates...an antology about books and reading printed as a souvenir of the first National Book Fair held in November, 1936. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12 vo.

New York: The New York Times, 1936. Very Good/fair. 5 x 8 in. Mustard cloth boards with gilt titles. Condition is VERY GOOD ; mild shelf wear, covers clean, a bit sunned. BInding tight and text unmarked. DJ is FAIR ; many tears and chips with scotch tape repairs inside, oveall rubbed and faded. Fiction. Stax.