Shandygaff

Christopher Morley

Published by Garden City Publishing

About this Item

A near fine copy, in a very good dust jacket, of the BOMC edition. The purple cloth binding is clean and unworn, although lightly faded to the spine. Everything is square and tight, with sharp unbumped edges and corners. Inside the contents are immaculate with no inscriptions or other markings of any kind. The dust jacket is unclipped (no flap price), and is fully intact, with only a little wear to the spine tips. The spine itself is somewhat faded. The jacket is now protected in a removable mylar cover. Christopher Morley (May 5, 1890 March 28, 1957) was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet. He also produced stage productions for a few years and gave college lectures. Morley's first novel, Parnassus on Wheels, appeared in 1917. The protagonist, traveling bookseller Roger Mifflin, appeared again in his second novel, The Haunted Bookshop in 1919. Morley 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 to 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. He was one of the first judges for the Book of the Month Club, serving in that position until the early 1950s. In all, Morley was the author of more than 100 novels, books of essays, and volumes of poetry.

Seller Inventory # NT001842

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shandygaff
• Publisher: Garden City Publishing
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good