The Book Detektive: A Record of the book-borrowing habits of your friends and a most important admonition

Book Collecting. Morley (Christopher)   William Morrow & Co., New York,  1938 First Edition    Card wrap-around portfolio in book format with various inclosures and a decorative pencil Portfolio worn, the outer backstrip peeling from head to tail of spine at two folds, but the case strong and intact and the component parts preserved in fine condition Not mentioned in Morley’s extant bibliographies An extremely scarce curiosity from Morley, journalist, novelist and New Yorker; one of the founders and long time staff members of the Saturday Review of Literature, author of Parnassus on Wheels, The Haunted Bookshop and Tales from a Rolltop Desk. Morley was a close friend of Don Marquis, and the gregarious mainstay of the ‘Three Hours for Lunch Club’. Much of his ebulliant personality is communicated in this activity set for retrieving loaned books, which includes cards with ‘suggestions for luring your books back diplomatically’ and ‘the hitherto unpublished transcript of the Criminal Trial Pandowdy V. Librovore.’ An element of undeniable vitriol makes one wonder which of Morley’s illustrious acquaintances was the inspiration for this endeavour. 

Price: £250