The Child and the Book

by Christopher Morley

$20 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

Chicago: American Library Association, 1922. First Edition. Bifolium 19cm ; single sheet of beige stock, folded vertically at center, with text and illustration printed in brown; 4 pp. Fine. A short, moving vignette in support of public libraries, recalling a chance encounter Morley had on a side-street in Philadelphia, where he came upon a young girl sitting on a stoop, reading a

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