FIFTH AVENUE BUS de Morley, christopher - 1934

doubleday moran, 1934. good some stains but no separation yet, heavy book

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1934. 8vo, pp.[8], unpaginated (text plates were not reset for this anthology); very good copy in original green cloth, library stamp on top edge of text block and on verso of title, owner's inscription on front paste-down, sound. Lyle, p. 16.

Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1936. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1936. No Edition Remarks. Unpaginated. No dust jacket. Green cloth boards with lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil markings to back pastedown. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Moderate splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Visible wear marks to boards.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday Doran and Company, 1933 A collection of the books of Christopher Morley. Stated first edtion. Green cloth with blue title on spine and cover. Notable sunning to spine.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1933. First Edition. Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo. A collection of Morley's early books and writings combined in one volume. Owner's signature on the top corner of a number of pages. Spine faded and stained.

1933. MORLEY, Christopher. Fifth Avenue Bus: An Excursion Among the Books of Christopher Morley with a Note by The Conductor. Original cloth, non-priceclipped dust jacket. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1933. First edition. Ashby A104.a.1. Lyle A110. Jacket a bit worn, spine sunned, else very good.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc., 1934. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. INSCRIBED. Light green cloth, lettered in black. No statement of edition/ptg., 1934 date on lower main title (first issued 1933). Anthology of some of Morley's best work, each selection separately paginated (printed from original plates), 600+ pp. total. Spine panel toned, both covers tanning toward edges, binding somewhat bowed but firm and fully intact. Text block edges typically toned. Inscribed by Morley on front flyleaf, full signature, "Signed for Gertrude Weiss / with best wishes / Because she is a friend / of Bec Wise," dated Cincinnati, April 24, 1934. A difficult title to find signed..