Fifth Avenue Bus: An Excursion Among the Books of Christopher Morley With a Note by The Conductor [INSCRIBED]
by Morley, Christopher
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Kutztown, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
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..
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- Bookseller
- Saucony Book Shop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 049625
- Title
- Fifth Avenue Bus: An Excursion Among the Books of Christopher Morley With a Note by The Conductor [INSCRIBED]
- Author
- Morley, Christopher
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1934
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Saucony Book Shop
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Saucony Book Shop
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Kutztown, Pennsylvania
About Saucony Book Shop
The Saucony Book Shop, located in the heart of scenic rural Berks County, epicenter of Pennsylvania German folk culture (our shop specialty), offers a full range of gently used, rare, and antiquarian books, with many volumes of scholarly merit and an unabashed emphasis on the quaint, the curious, and the utterly obscure. We make no attempt to be a general-service book shop. Our inventory is highly selective, individually chosen from among the hundreds of thousands of books to which we have access annually at auctions, library and estate sales, and through individual scouts and vendors. We do not handle material that does not meet our expectations in terms of condition or interest to our specialized, idiosyncratic customers. Despite maintaining a browsing inventory of more than 15,000 volumes, we have minimized our carbon footprint by maintaining our entire operation in a cozy ca. 1890 barn and lean-to adjacent to an historic creamery in rural Maxatawny Township. Our shop is available for browsing by appointment and occasionally, in temperate weather, by chance, so email or call ahead to peruse the eclectic selection gracing our shelves, or ask our ferociously over-read staff for recommendations. Selling antiquarian books of merit since 1981. Full search and appraisal services; always keenly interested in purchasing quality used books, whether by the piece or by the bushel. Thanks for reading about us! Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...