Author: MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER
Title: Human Being, a Novel Modern Library #74. 2
Description: New York: The Modern Library / Random House, 1940. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Stated First Modern Library edition, 1940 (confirmed by number of titles on dust jacket). Christopher Morley's novel is described on the jacket as the ".story of an obscure man caught in the act of being human." This work originally published by Doubleday, Doran in 1934. Includes an introduction by the author. --- In Toledano spine 8 / red cloth / gilt titling stamped on black cover & spine blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style g, verso advertises 274 titles in ML catalog. ML #74.2. --- With prior owner's discreet markings to verso of front free endpaper, unobtrusive H. C. Capwell Co. of Oakland, Calif. bookseller label to rear paste-down, and some dulling to cover gilding, otherwise a tightly-bound, unmarked, clean copy. Unclipped dust jacket ($0.95), with some chipping and scuffing to extremities, else bright, intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; (15), x-xii, (2), 350, (6, ads) pages. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .
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Title: Human Being, a Novel Modern Library #74. 2
Description: New York: The Modern Library / Random House, 1940. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Stated First Modern Library edition, 1940 (confirmed by number of titles on dust jacket). Christopher Morley's novel is described on the jacket as the ".story of an obscure man caught in the act of being human." This work originally published by Doubleday, Doran in 1934. Includes an introduction by the author. --- In Toledano spine 8 / red cloth / gilt titling stamped on black cover & spine blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style g, verso advertises 274 titles in ML catalog. ML #74.2. --- With prior owner's discreet markings to verso of front free endpaper, unobtrusive H. C. Capwell Co. of Oakland, Calif. bookseller label to rear paste-down, and some dulling to cover gilding, otherwise a tightly-bound, unmarked, clean copy. Unclipped dust jacket ($0.95), with some chipping and scuffing to extremities, else bright, intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; (15), x-xii, (2), 350, (6, ads) pages. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .
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Price: US$ 64.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 87069
- Book number: 87069