Suspense Christopher Morley The Haunted Bookshop 1919 1st US VG

 

First US edition with 1919 on title page. First printing (first state have long been disputed, with no definitive citation) with both the title page and copyright page dated 1919; page 76 is numbered; the type of the word "Burroughs" in the final line of page 76 is unbroken; the first line of page 100 reads "boat on the Sty"; the Dedication is to "The Booksellers". Publisher Garden City Doubleday, Page & Company, 1919. Octavio 5.25" x 7.75" [ii Blank] [x] 3-289 [i Doubleday Emblem] [iv Blank]. Original decorated red-brown cloth with black lettering to spine. Cover and spine is decorated with books. No dust jacket. 

Book Condition: Very Good Spine end is chipped. Cover corners are bumped. Previous owner's signature on front pastedown. Ink letters on FEP. Binding is beginning to crack. Text is clean.

This is a suspenseful novel set in Brooklyn around the time of the end of World War I It continues the story of Roger Mifflin, the book seller in Parnassus on Wheels It also details an adventure of Miss Titania Chapman and a young advertising man named Aubrey Gilbert. Aubrey returns to visit Titania and experiences a series of unusual events: He is attacked on his way home from the store, an obscure book mysteriously disappears and reappears, and two strange characters are seen skulking in a nearby alleyway.