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Robert Holden & Co. Ltd, 1926. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1926. 288 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Heavy tanning to text block edges and free endpapers. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Heavy bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends, causing cloth to fray. Boards are slightly bowed and tanned. Ring marks to front surface.

Robert M. McBride & Company, 1926. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

NY: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1926. First Edition . Hardcover. 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.

Robert Holden & Co Ltd, 1926. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1926. No Edition Remarks. 288 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout, heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Minor pencil inscription to front free endpaper and pastedown. Cracking to hinges with exposed binding, causing boards to be loose. Binding is shaky. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Book is slightly forward leaning. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Light stained marking to boards.

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Paperback / softback. New.

New York.: R. M. McBride & Company., 1926. First edition. . Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Spine titles darkened. Half title page starting to separate. Clean text pages.. 1 Maroon woven cloth over boards w/ front and spine stamped titles in gold. 292 p. 20 cm. Mr. and Mrs. Cosmo Topper live a life of secrets, on occasion amusing to them. There are ghosts. In this classic fantasy fiction of the early 20th century. You see, George and Marion Kirby talk to Cosmo Topper, but they had earlier met their ends in the car Mrs. Topper later acquired.

New York:: Robert M. McBride & Company,, 1926.. First edition.. publisher's red cloth.. A few spots of foxing to the first few and the last few leaves; spine sunned; very good; tight and sound.. 8vo,.

New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. 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. 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).

New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1926. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. A fine tight book in a nearly fine dust jacket with restoration at edges, primarily to the top of the front panel (affecting the "T" and "O" in "TOPPER." ) . An attractive copy of a scarce book in the original jacket. The first Topper title, and basis for the 1937 film starring Cary Grant and Constance Bennett.

New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1926. First edition. 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). 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.

New York: Robert M McBride, 1926. Second printing. INSCRIBED by the author to Roland Young, who played Cosmo Topper in the legendary 1937 screwball comedy (as well as its two sequels): "To Roland Young: The most disarming "gentleman Johnnie" that ever advanced the lines of G.B.S. [George Bernard Shaw]. From Thorne Smith." Roland Young's bookplate is opposite the inscription on the front pastedown. Also included is a first edition of the pamphleted book, "Thorne Smith: His Life and Times," which includes an interview with Thorne Smith conducted by Roland Young. Jacket is bright, with a few short closed tears and some shallow creasing at the spine ends. Not only the rarest of Thorne Smith's widely sought-after comedies, but also the best imaginable association. In a red quarter-leather clamshell box, with raised bands and gilt titles.