Verlag: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1926
Anbieter: Library House Internet Sales, Grand Rapids, OH, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Former library book. Has been repaired by replacing the spine and meanding the hinges. Has been glued back into its covers after being shaken loose. Solid binding. Boards are moderate to severely edgeworn. Shows more than the usual amount of shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.
Verlag: Lector House, 2019
ISBN 10: 9353447275 ISBN 13: 9789353447274
Anbieter: Half Price Books Inc., Dallas, TX, USA
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Verlag: New York Robert M. McBride & Co. 1930., 1930
Anbieter: Arnold M. Herr, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Condition: top of spine slightly frayed; bump to top edge of front cover; spine sunfaded. Minor wear; else in good condition. Illustrated by no illustrations. Reprint edition. Binding is cloth.
Verlag: Robert M. McBride & Company, NY, 1926
Anbieter: Tulsa Books, Tulsa, OK, USA
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Hard Cover. First Edition. Second printing of the first edition (two months after the first printing), very good- lacking a dust jacket. Owner's bookplate on front pastedown. The red cloth on the spine has apparent insect damage, and roughtly 50% of the cloth is gone; however, most of the lettering is still present and legible. Hinges are tight, book is solid and square.
Verlag: New York: Robert M. McBride, 1926
Anbieter: Richard Cady Rare Books, Prescott, AZ, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo; (10), 292 pages; red cloth, gilt titled on front cover and backstrip. Backstrip and top 1/2 inch of boards some faded, gilt on spine a bit oxodized; a very good copy. First edition of this classic humorous fantasy. A meek little man is haunted by the ghost of a mischevious girl. References: Ashley, page 165, Bleiler, page 162.
Verlag: New York Robert M. McBride & Company 1926, 1926
Erstausgabe
Zustand: Bon état. Sans la jaquette. in-8, cartonnage de l'éditeur, 292 pp. Edition originale en premier tirage. Texte en anglais. Manque la jaquette, dos un peu passé sinon en très bon état. Exemplaire provenant de la bibliothèque d'Alain Resnais.
Verlag: Robert M. McBride, New York, 1926
Anbieter: BookHome, San Jose, CA, USA
Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Condition: slight wear to cover, tanning of interior pages and page edges. Accompanied by facsimile dust jacket. The author's best-known humorous fantasy that spawned several movies and a TV series. "James Thorne Smith, Jr. (March 27, 1892 ? June 20, 1934) was an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction under the byline Thorne Smith. He is best known today for the two Topper novels, comic fantasy fiction involving sex, much drinking and ghosts. With racy illustrations, these sold millions of copies in the 1930s and were equally popular in paperbacks of the 1950s.".
Verlag: Robert M. McBride & Company, New York, 1926
Anbieter: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, USA
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292 pp. 8vo, publisher's red cloth. First edition. A few spots of foxing to the first few and the last few leaves; spine sunned; very good; tight and sound.
Verlag: Robert Holden, London, 1926
Anbieter: Dr Jeremy Parrott, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Ultra scarce UK first edition of this classic comic fantasy novel. Thorne Smith's first and most famous book. Listed in Bleiler's guide to fantastic literature. First issue binding of plum-coloured cloth with gilt spine lettering and blind-stamped rules to front cover. Small, slightly darker mark to spine; slight off-setting to endpapers. A very good, bright copy of this rare book - much harder to find than the US edition from the same year.
Verlag: Robert M. McBride & Company, New York, 1926
Anbieter: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, USA
Erstausgabe Signiert
Hardcover. First Edition. A classic humorous ghost story, source of both a successful film starring Cary Grant and Oscar-nominated Roland Young as Topper as well as a television sitcom starring Leo G. Carroll. Interestingly, Stephen Sondheim wrote 11 episodes for Topper's first season. This copy is SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author "To Doctor Sanman/To help people is the/meaning of Christ." Tuck, THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY: "A meek and henpecked character is haunted by the ghosts of a mischievous girl and her jealous husband, who materialise under most embarrassing circumstances to torment him" (page 401). The front hinge is cracked and has been adequately if not professionally repaired at some time with glue. Spine darkened with some wear at head. Lacks the scarce dustwrapper. Good copy and extremely difficult to find signed.
Verlag: Robert M. McBride & Company, New York, 1926
Anbieter: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, USA
Erstausgabe
First edition. Octavo, pp. [1-12] 1-292, jacket illustration by C.V. Farrow, original brick red cloth, front and spine stamped in gold. The first Cosmo Topper adventure. Mired in his middle class life Cosmo Topper purchases a used car, in which George and Marion Kerby were driving when they died in an accident. In visiting the spot of the crash the ghosts of the Kerby's appear and "torment" Topper in a farcical manner (from an online entry by David Langford on Thorne Smith). Basis for the 1937 film starring Cary Grant and Constance Bennett as the Kerby's and Roland Young as Topper. Light tanning to paste-downs, top page edges dusty, small store label affixed to rear paste-down, a nearly fine copy in a very good mildly rubbed dust jacket with shelf wear and rubbing to spine ends, several tiny tiny closed edge tears, repaired chip and tear to upper rear panel and some soiling to rear panel. A scarce book in jacket. (20295).