Item #7528 DON'T OPEN UNTIL CHRISTMAS. Christopher Morley, Howard Willard, story, illustrations.

DON'T OPEN UNTIL CHRISTMAS

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1931. First Separate Edition. Item #7528

First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and red cloth backstrip, with printed title label mounted to front cover; red topstain; polka-dot endpapers; [8],9-26,[2]pp, with black & white illustrations by Howard Willard. Some gentle sunning to extremities, touch of dust-soil to covers though clean internally, with a tiny tear and crease to rear cover; Very Good+ or better, lacking the fragile glassine overlay. A Christmas story, originally published in 1926 under the title "Slow Gin" in Morley's collected Essays.

Price: $40.00

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