Morley's Variety

Christopher Morley

Edité par The World Publishing Company, 1944

A near fine copy of the publisher's limited edition of 875 numbered copies, in the original orange cloth boards. The binding is clean and bright, with just the slightest hint of sunning to the spine. Everything is square and tight, with sharp, unbumped edges and corners. The contents are immaculate, with no inscriptions or other markings of any kind. The numbering on this copy has been left blank. Christopher Morley (May 5, 1890 March 28, 1957) was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet. He also produced stage productions for a few years and gave college lectures. Morley's first novel, Parnassus on Wheels, appeared in 1917. The protagonist, traveling bookselloer Roger Mifflin, appeared again in his second novel, The Haunted Bookshop in 1919. Morley was one of the founders and a longtime contributing editor of the Saturday Review of Literature. A highly gregarious man, he was the mainstay of what he dubbed the "Three Hours for Lunch Club". Out of enthusiasm for the Sherlock Holmes stories, he helped to found the Baker Street Irregulars and wrote the introduction to the standard omnibus edition of The Complete Sherlock Holmes. He also wrote an introduction to the standard omnibus edition of The Complete Works of Shakespeare in 1936, although Morley called it an "Introduction to Yourself as a Reader of Shakespeare". That year, he was appointed to revise and enlarge Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. He was one of the first judges for the Book of the Month Club, serving in that position until the early 1950s. In all, Morley was the author of more than 100 novels, books of essays, and volumes of poetry. N° de réf. du vendeur NT001845

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Morley's Variety
Éditeur : The World Publishing Company
Date d'édition : 1944
Reliure : Hardcover
Etat : Near Fine
Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket