This book along with its companion piece 'The Haunted Bookshop' Has become a classic for book collectors and book lovers. This book is the story of a marvelous man, small in stature, wiry as a cat, and Olympic in personality. With his traveling book wagon named Parnassus, he moves through the New England countryside of 1915 on an itinerant missions of enlightenment. His delight in books and authors is infectious. Book club edition but well made and in at least Very Good condition.