HOLLIDAY, ROBERT CORTES — Men and Books and Cities

NY: George H. Doran Company, 1920. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Quarter bound in publisher's light brown cloth over choclate boards, green lettering on spine, fore-edge deckle. NB: Robert Cortes Holliday (1880- 1947) sold books, worked as a librarian, and became a literary editor at the New York Tribune, Doubleday, Page & Co, and George H. Doran & Co. before taking an editorial position with The Bookman, serving as its chief editor from 1919 to 1920. After he left The Bookman in 1923, Holliday continued his criticism, worked for brief stints in advertising, and in 1926 became an instructor on writing for publication. Holliday also published fifteen books, including The Walking-Stick Papers (1918), Men and Books and Cities (1920), Literary Lanes and Other Byways (1925), as well as volumes on Booth Tarkington and poet Joyce Kilmer (for whom he served as literary executor).. Head and heel of spine very lightly worn, else fine unmarked, tight, square, and clean. VERY GOOD+.. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 263 pages. Very Good+ in No Dust Jacket dust jacket .