Morley Christopher Introduction (75 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Clean tight copy. Shelf wear. Tanning along fore edges and pages. Bumping along edges and tips of boards. Rubbing and fading to boards. Spine is slightly cocked. Spine creases. Former owner's name on front fly leaf.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Reprint. 1954-59 printing, Toledano 280.1, binding/jacket style 8i with 415 titles on verso, $1.95 jacket price, grey Rockwell Kent endpapers. Good in fair jacket. Front hinge just beginning to weaken, jacket soiled, more heavily on rear panel, ink name stamp on front endpaper. 1958 Hard Cover. xiii, 715 pp. Introduction by Christopher Morley. "Hector Hugh Munro (December 18, 1870 - November 13, 1916), better known by the pen name Saki, was a British writer, whose witty and sometimes macabre stories satirized Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. His tales feature delicately drawn characters and finely judged narratives.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Worn binding with bumps to edges and corners. Small stains to tinted top edge. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper, as well as a bookplate on reverse. Text is unmarked. The dust jacket is lightly soiled and edge worn with creases and several tears (some repaired with tape), in a mylar cover. From the collection of Gloria Grace Griffen, whose bookplate is adhered to front paste down.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Hard Cover - Good - No dust jacket if issued - Other than bumping at edges and fade to spine book is tight with light wear - 555 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Acceptable. No Jacket. Spine faded. This copy is aged.

The photos in the listing are of the actual book you will receive. Very good with light wear, toning to end papers and pages. See photos clph.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Second Printing. No dust jacket. Front cover has a very small, slight stain to the outer edge. Spine is somewhat faded, lettering is illegible.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good -. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Worn dust jacket with edge chips, scuffs, soils, etc. Normal book wear. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 288 pages. 8.00x5.12x7.99 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Binding is so loose that the book will stay open to any given page. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.35.

hardcover. Condition: Good. No jacket. Upper part of binding is worn/discolored. Clean unmarked and tight text block.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Hardcover. Book Condition: Good. Jacket Condition: Good+. The Modern Library, New York, NY 1966. Ex-Library, Usual Markings. 715 pages. Moderate general wear. Piece torn from front endpaper. Marked Discard. Jacket price-clipped. Size: 7 x 6 x 2. Classics/Collectors Series::Modern Library Fiction Modern::Short Stories 6106.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Now first published from the original manuscript.

Hardcover. Condition: fine. NOT an ex library book. Book with dark red leather binding. Raised bands across spine, print and decoration in gold. Gilt on all three edges. Moire endpapers. Clean pages with ribbon marker. Easton Press notice "Your edition may appear to be incomplete. Pages 204 to 213 are blank. The "missing chapter: is just one of the author's many innovations and was quite intentional.

hardcover. 1st ed. B009908; 555 pp, And edge fraying hardcover, good contents, covers are fair with discoloration.

Cloth w/DJ. Condition: VG/FR. Not Illustrated (illustrator). First Edition. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. VG/FR. 1934. First Edition. Cloth w/DJ. 12mo., x, 555pp., Dj torn with staining; inscriptions and owners bookplate .

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 288 pages. 8.00x5.12x7.99 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 288 pages. 8.00x5.12x7.99 inches. In Stock.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair (in mylar). Aged, else textblock is clean and tight. Minor scuffing to the head and foot of spine, fraying to the corners, surface scuffed back cover. Clipped dust jacket, large chips to head and foot of spine, chipping to the corners, several closed tears, couple chips to a few of the corners, age toned, mylar sleeved for safe-keeping. 762p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Leather. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Collector's Edition. Collector's edition of this classic from The Easton Press. Gilt decorated binding, all edges gilt, satin ribbon page marker, silk moire endpapers. From The Easton Press' "The 100 Greatest Books Every Written" series. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. Light green cloth binding with black print on spine. A picture and edge liner on front. Head edge of spine are browned at top and bottom where dust jacket was missing. Small soil stain on head edge. 555 pages.Previous owner bookplate on front flyleaf. Otherwise sound and unmarked. Dust jacket in mylar with several torn off sections. Not price clipped. Among the contents are two first time items in book form; Sinclair Lewis's "Dollar Chasers" and T. S. Stribling's "The Mating of Pompalone".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. De Luxe edition. Original brown leather, gilt, raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Rubbing wear to edges, darkening to spine. Crisp, clean and sound.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages. xiii, 718 p., 18 cm. Saki, pseudonym of Hector Hugh Munro, was a Scottish writer and journalist whose stories depict the Edwardian social scene with a flippant wit and power of fantastic invention used both to satirize social pretension, unkindness, and stupidity and to create an atmosphere of horror.

Near fine in slightly soiled slipcase. Illustrated by Sepia-toned illustrations. 1st edn thus. Binding is cloth.

mass market paperback. Condition: acceptable; used. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED16mo; 308 pages; acceptable exlibrary mass market paperback; library stamps to edges; stains to cover and few pages; spine slanting; tips bumped and chipped; few nicks and chips to edges cover; tanned pages; edges factory coloring some fade; few pages slight chip to edges; some pencil front free end page from a previous owner; clean pages ; prompt shipping wtiht racking.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: slip case,fair. Freda Bone (illustrator). Limited edition of 1200; this is copy 790. Wood engravings by Freda Bone. Very rough-cut edges on side and bottom of text block, top edge is gold. Many pages are uncut. Boards have handsome marbling design, but spine green leather backstrip is badly worn with some of leather rubbed off. Slip case has pieces missing at top and bottom. Interior pages are clean and undamaged. 149 pages, 10 1/2" x 8".

hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Cleland,t. M. (illustrator). No slipcase; 10.9 X 7.4 X 1.4 inches; 444 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 288 pages. 8.00x5.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good hardcover. Later printing. Text clean. Light brown spots on endpapers. Top corners on cover bent.