Morley Christopher with Introduction By (14 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.

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

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

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: Very Good. Glassine; plus slip case. Copyright date of 1938 is given but for the Limited Editions Club--this elegant edition may be as late as the 1960s; 237 p., clean and unmarked on fine quality paper only faintly age-toned; map end pagers; ill.; binding firm; illustrated boards in gray tonalities clean without discernible wear, and gilt lettering on unsunned red patch on spine are still bright; glassine wrapper very yellow with some chipping; celadon slip case has little edge wear but is sunned at edges.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. This book is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is rubbing and wear to the spine ends and corners of the book covers and a chip to the bottom spine end of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The endpapers have some beginning toning. "This is not a writing, but conversation. It is condensed from a stenographic transcript taken down as uttered, and was the concluding talk of a series given in March and April, 1939, at Adelphi College, Garden City, Long Island. The term Passivity is employed with some mischief as "Activity Programs" have become a fetich among progressive educators." (from the book).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Slipcase is Fair. T.M. Cleland (illustrator).

Condition: Good. Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. (humor, short stories, british literature) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. xiii, 316 pages. 28 cm. Green burlap boards with green title over white label to spine. Decorative end papers). Top edge blue-green. Illustrated with 30 out-of-text full-page drawings, some in color. some in b/w "reproduced in Similetone and Intaprint by the Zeese-Wilkinson Company". Printed on special thick paper (made by the P.H. Glalfelter Company). Sunned spine (brown) and to boards along the spine. Book is bright and tight with clear illustrations. NOTE : Large and heavy book (1.5 kg), may need extra shipping, please inquire. Illustrations by Lewis C. Daniel (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Not in a slip case. The following applies to both volumes: Residue of a sticker on inside front cover (Volume I). Slight discoloration to pages. Some wear along the edges, tips, and along the spine. Some rubbing wear to covers. ONLY SOLD AS A SET. T. M. Cleland (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. With an introduction by Christopher Morley and wood engravings by Freda Bone. An unnumbered copy from a limitation of 1200. New York: Cheshire House, 1932. Quarter leather and marbled boards in slipcase, pages uncut; pp. [iv], viii, [2], 147, [2]. Sunning to spine, else a fine copy. Internally clean and bright. Slipcase shows some wear. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1940. Doubleday, Doran & Co. A Hardback in Very Good ++ condition, in publisher's original cloth binding. Selected and with an Introduction by Christopher Morley and Illustrations by Lewis C. Daniel. Fading to spine and front board, some edgewear to spine label. One very small mark to back board. But spine and page block are firm and tight. Dust toning to top of page block. Some age related toning/foxing to front pastedown and ffep, elsewhere extremely mildly. A few, occasional, tiny marks to pages. Otherwise pages clean, bright and unmarked. Without the slipcase. Without inscriptions. Beautifully illustrated with 10 plates in colour and 20 monochrome plates. A lovely book in Very Good ++ condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 013854.