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Garden City: Sun Dial Press, 1942. (USA) 1st thus. No markings, slight toning of endpapers, Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket in mylar sleeve. Tea; green cloth, 325pp, 311pp,311pp, line drawings. Thorne Smith (died 1934) 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.The first Topper book was made into a movie starring Cary Grant. Topper Takes a Trip is a sequel. In The Night Life of the Gods (1931). Quirky inventor Hunter Hawk strikes gold when he invents a device enabling him to turn living matter into stone and to reverse the process at will. After a chaotic field test he meets stunning 900-year-old Megaera, who teaches him to turn stone into flesh. They and some friends set their sights on New York City to bring the Roman gods of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to life: Mercury shows himself an expert pickpocket,… Leer más

NY: Grove Press, 1961. (USA) Mostly likely a later reprint. The copyright page states: This is a reprint edition distributed by Bookthrift New York. Bookthrift is a registered trademark of Somon & Schuster. No markings, slight toning of page edges, Very Good with slight bump to lower corner of the rear cover in Good only dust jacket with tears and chipping to the lower edge of rear panel and tears to head of spine and one to the top edge of front panel; DJ is in mylar sleeve. Black leatherestte hardcover with silver spine titles, 346pp. (1.8 JM HOQ 102/b1. A Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

NY: Doubleday, 2016. (USA) 24th printing of the first edition No markings, Fine in unclipped Fine dust jacket hardcover, 306pp. This novel was a New York Times Bestseller, apulitzer Prize Winner and a winner of the \National Book Award. The book is a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. (1.8 JM LVR 205/b2. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

NY: Lancer Books, 1972. (USA) 1st printing,(1972, no other printings indicated) . 75386-095 95 cent cover price. No markings, very very slight toning of top of page edges, Fine copy. Wraps, 142pp. Koontz is now better known for his horror and suspense novels; this is an early SF work. (1.33 JM HOQ 100/a4. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.