THE IRONING BOARD

by Christopher Morley

$25 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1949. Octavo, original black cloth stamped in orange. First edition. Collects twenty-six stories and sketches, all reflecting the author's urbane wit. Watson a la Mode is an amusing Sherlockian jeu d'esprit. Other Sherlockian tidbits include Codeine 7 per cent and A Christmas Story Without Slush. A very good copy. #117549

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