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Don't open until Christmas / Christopher Morley ; with decorations by Howard Willard.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC9 M8277 931d
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Morley, Christopher, 1890-1957.
Contributor:
Willard, Howard, 1894-1960.
Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Christmas stories, American.
Genre:
Essays.
Physical Description:
26 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Edition:
[First edition].
Manufacture:
Garden City, N.Y., U.S.A. : Printed at the Country Life Press.
Other Title:
Slow gin
Place of Publication:
Garden City, New York : Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1931.
Notes:
With half-title.
"Published under the title 'Slow gin' in Christopher Morley's collected Essays. This is its first publication as a separate book."
"This essay had its first book printing, under the title 'Slow gin,' in 'Romany Stain,' pages 6-12, several years previous to the publication of the collected Essays, as noted in the above collation ... [it] was published November 23, 1931, with a first printing of 5000 copies."--Cf. Lee.
Red cloth spine; decorated red, white and green boards, lettered in red. Top edge stained red; decorated endpapers.
Cited in:
Lee, A. P. Bibliography of Christopher Morley. Doubleday Doran, [102]
OCLC:
510393

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