Preface to Bartlett"" by Morley, Christopher - 1937

Little, Brown and Company, 1937. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday, May 6 (weekend SALE ITEM)* first edition, 29 pp., hardcover, very good. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

Boston MA: Little Brown and Company, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. 29 pages. Homage to John Bartlett of "Bartlett's Quotations". Very light scuff to lower corner of front cover and some very light rubbing to cover edges. There is a faint 2" x 1" liquid stain along the leading edge/top edge of the first 15 pages, near the corner (about half the text block is affected).; 5 1/4 x 7 3/4

Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1937. First Edition. Hardcover.

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st ed. A Fine copy. Small octavo. Quarter cloth and patterned boards with front cover paste down. Fine.

Boston: Little, Brown and Co, 1937. cloth-backed boards, paper cover label. 8vo. cloth-backed boards, paper cover label. vi, 29 pages. First edition. (Lyle & Brown p.31). Preface that Morley wrote for the 11th edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.

Boston: Little Brown and Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1937. 1st Separate Edition. Hardcover. Wear to all corners, spine ends rubbed, free endpapers and heads of leaves very faintly toned. Lacks the glassine wrapper, as most do.; Morley was Editor-in-Chief of the 1937 11th edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations and wrote this oh-so-typically-Morley Preface. In editing with collaborator Louella D. Everett, they focused not only on inclusion, but the exclusion of quotations that had outlived their usefulness. Of "Bartlett's" he said " This is in no sense a collection of personal choices. It is foremost a salvage of those words which users of the English tongue have shown evidence not willingly to let die." "Ancient footnotes that have come downstream through former editions have often been dropped when they seemed pointless: one remembers the man (I forget who) described by Dr. Johnson as having ‘a rage for saying something when there was… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1937. First edition, as stated. Hardcover. Very Good +. 5 1/4 x 7 3/4 in. Red cloth spine with decorative paper boards and paper label. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; slight wear to corners, very clean, binding and text great, with extravagant signature (Constance Smith 1946) in ink on lower title pg. Fiction. RGR.

Little, Brown, and Co, 1937-01-01. Hardcover. Good. ***please read*** 1st Edition - Moderate shelf wear with moderate corner bumps, age discoloration, foxing pencil notes on flyleaf and inside back board - no marks on text - 29 pages - my shelf location -29-b-42

1 . hardback. Fine. Illustrated. 1st ed. Boston (Little Brown) 1937. A fine copy with the Trovillion label. Cloth-backed patterned paper boards. Newspaper obituary pasted to rear e/p.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1937.. 1937.. Very good. - Octavo, red cloth-backed decorated paper covered boards with printed paper label on the front cover. The extremities are bumped with light shelf-wear and the spine is faded. 29 pages with 8 photographic illustrations. Very good. <p>First edition. A separate printing of Morley's delightful Preface to a new edition of Bartlett's classic "Familiar Quotations".