Parnassus on Wheels

Garden City and New York: Doubleday Page and Company, 1925 Reprint, dated 1925. Part of a Christopher Morley Series by Doubleday Page first issued by this publisher in 1917. Flexible cover of full red sheepskin with author's initials blocked in gold to front, and title along spine, top edge gilt, cream end papers, rubricated title page, 190pp. CONDITION: Very Good Plus (or better, really.) One bumped corner to front. A few slight scratch marks to covers, which are generally superficial. Else, clean and bright, no signs of foxing. One quarter-inch stain on outside bottom edge of text block. Board edges and corners are pristine.**This is the very famous first of two biblio-mysteries by Morley featuring Roger Mifflin, first published 1917. This is a *hugely entertaining* read to the publisher, bookseller or book lover, with many "in-jokes" found in the character's names and peccadilloes. Mifflin's traveling book store, "Parnassus" is modeled on a brightly painted, horse-drawn tinker's wagon with living accommodations squeezed in between two external facing bookshelves. (Such wagons can still be seen occasionally in rural Scotland; one went by this bookseller's house once, in a full blaze of color!)**Pennsylvania-born Author, Christopher Morley(1890-1957), spent some of his educational years at Oxford, and upon return to Philadelphia, launching a publishing career at Doubleday as a reader and publicist. He would eventually edit magazines, work as a reporter in Philadelphia and finally launch the Saturday Review of Literature. He was a huge fan of Conan Doyle, and co-founded the "Baker Street Irregulars.". Hard Cover. Near Fine.