MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER. Parnassus on Wheels. Garden City: Doubleday, Page 1917. 12mo, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, PRINTED DUST JACKET (slight fraying at ends of spine, small repairs made on verso), half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, FIRST STATE OF JACKET, INSCRIBED BY MORLEY on front free endpaper: "Signed for M.S. Slocum with best wishes from Christopher Morley," signed again by the author on title-page. Laid in are one typed letter signed and one autograph letter signed from Morley to Myles Standish Slocum in Pasadena, New York, 16 December 1931 and 2 January 1934, together 3 pages, 8vo, with one envelope: "The crate of oranges and honey and choice fruits of the earth [Morley writes in the second letter] has been a huge delight. It seems an ill recompense for your golden kindness that the circumcized footballers from Columbia should come West and win their game [Columbia's famous Rose Bowl victory]..." Merle Johnson, p. 377. A fine copy in the rare dust jacket.

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MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER. Parnassus on Wheels. Garden City: Doubleday, Page 1917. 12mo, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, PRINTED DUST JACKET (slight fraying at ends of spine, small repairs made on verso), half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, FIRST STATE OF JACKET, INSCRIBED BY MORLEY on front free endpaper: "Signed for M.S. Slocum with best wishes from Christopher Morley," signed again by the author on title-page. Laid in are one typed letter signed and one autograph letter signed from Morley to Myles Standish Slocum in Pasadena, New York, 16 December 1931 and 2 January 1934, together 3 pages, 8vo, with one envelope: "The crate of oranges and honey and choice fruits of the earth [Morley writes in the second letter] has been a huge delight. It seems an ill recompense for your golden kindness that the circumcized footballers from Columbia should come West and win their game [Columbia's famous Rose Bowl victory]..." Merle Johnson, p. 377. A fine copy in the rare dust jacket.

Provenance: Carolyn Slocum. (3)