WHERE THE BLUE BEGINS; By Christopher Morley / With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham
London New York: Doubleday, Page & Company / William Heinemann, Ltd., 1922. Arthur Rackham. First Edition, American Issue. Half leather over cloth. Quarto (10 1/4" x 7 3/4" x 1 1/4"), blue half leather with five hubs and gold lettering on spine over lighter blue cloth, illustrated by Arthur Rackham with glossy color frontispiece, 3 color plates + several line drawings, marbled endpapers, x, [xi-xii] + 227 pages. Issued without dust jacket. Very Good Plus. Item #9511
SCARCE Rackham and UNCOMMON Morley. The book is tight and internally clean. The leather is excellent; spine is lightly sunned. The cloth has faint mildew-like speckles. The Rackham plates are immaculate!
Christopher Morley (1890 – 1957) was an prominent American journalist, novelist, essayist, and poet. He also produced stage productions and was a college lecturer. He is most remembered for light humor, The Haunted Bookshop (1955), and his studies on Sherlock Holmes.
Price: $170.00