Rudolph And Amina Or the Black Crook

New York: John Day Company. Very Good+. 1930. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some beginning bumping and rubbing. The lettering on the spine of the book has rubbed somewhat. The text pages are clean and bright. There is some residue from a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown page (the bookplate has been completely removed). The first edition is denoted by the lack of any further printing information on the copyright page. There is a previous owner's inked gift notation on the reverse of the front endpaper. "He 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 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 (11th edition in 1937 and 12th edition in 1948). He was one of the first judges for the Book of the Month Club, serving in that position until the early 1950s. " (from Wikipedia) .