Norman Matson Thorne Smith (29 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. An 19th print from the early 1960s of Pocket Books edition, # 6207, of an early 1940s humorous novel. "The ribald story of a shy millionaire who married a witch." One of the inspirations, along with Bell, Book and Candle, for the TV series Bewitched. GGA cover. Light edge wear to the covers with a small closed tear at the center of the fore edge of the back cover. Tight binding. Mild spine lean. Light browning to the pages. A very good copy. Herbert Roese (cover & interior illustrations) (illustrator).…

Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Condition: acceptable. Ausreichend/Acceptable: Exemplar mit vollständigem Text und sämtlichen Abbildungen oder Karten. Schmutztitel oder Vorsatz können fehlen. Einband bzw. Schutzumschlag weisen unter Umständen starke Gebrauchsspuren auf. / Describes a book or dust jacket that has the complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc. (which must be noted). Binding, dust jacket (if any), etc may also be worn.…

Softcover. Condition: Très bon. Ancien livre de bibliothèque. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Very good. Former library book. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.…

Softcover. Condition: Bon. Ancien livre de bibliothèque. Petite(s) trace(s) de pliure sur la couverture. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Former library book. Slightly creased cover. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.…

Softcover. Condition: Très bon. Ancien livre de bibliothèque. Salissures sur la tranche. Pages cornées. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Very good. Former library book. Stains on the edge. Dog-eared pages. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.…

Softcover. Condition: Très bon. Ancien livre de bibliothèque. Petite(s) trace(s) de pliure sur la couverture. Légères traces d'usure sur la couverture. Couverture différente. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Very good. Former library book. Slightly creased cover. Slight signs of wear on the cover. Different cover. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations. …

Pictorial Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. The cover has red cloth with yellow lettering and an illustration. 21 chapters; b/w illustrations. The front endpaper has an owner's name and a pasted down sheet of reviews of this title. DJ: About a third of the top margin of the back panel is missing; this section also has a large stain. Eight chips elsewhere are 1/8 in. to a linear 1 1/4 in. Eight closed tears are 1/8 in. to 1 in. There is color loss adjacent to several of the chips and tears. Scans e-mailed upon request. Herbert Roese (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book is in Very Good condition. Illustrations by Herbert Roese. Scarce copy in this First Printing edition, and in this condition. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 243 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. #953, December 1945 (title/copyright page dated as per Doubleday, Doran and Co.'s 1941 publication). Wraps lightly scuffed and edgeworn. Staplebound; staple secure, free of rust. Pages lightly toned, text unmarked. One of the works that (with the play 'Bell, Book and Candle') inspired the classic sitcom 'Bewitched.'.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A very clean and tidy book, slightly rubbed and with corner a little rounded. Slightly cocked, but in all a superior copy. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. NO Dustwrapper. First UK Edition. A humorous story of a modern witch. Completed by Norman Matson. Illustrated by Herbert Roese. First UK Edition. Methuen & Co Ltd, London 1942. illus viii + 248pp hb Ex-library with Boots sticker on cover, covers creased & stained, pages browned with well-thumbed edges, fair.…

6th ed. 6th edition, 1947. No inscriptions or signatures; faint foxing on end papers & page fore-edge; binding tight; foot of spine & front board a little faded; dust jacket a little worn at edges; dust jacket not price-clipped Used - Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket Used - Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket.…

quer-kl.8°, 288 S., zweispaltig gesetzt, Text: englisch, farbig illustr. original Kartonage (Paperback), Einband berieben, Buchrücken oben an vorderer Kante mit ca. 3cm Anriss, sonst altersgemäß gutes, sauberes Exemplar. James Thorne Smith Jr. (1892 - 1934) Abholung im Ladengeschäft in Frankfurt am Main (Nordend ggü. Musterschule) möglich. Das spart die Portokosten. Pickup at the store in Frankfurt am Main (Nordend, close to Musterschule) is possible. It saves the shipping costs.…

Paris: Les Deux Sirènes (éditions Aillaud, Bastos et Cie), 1947 [réédition], 256 p. Traduit par Maurion, Yves. **'Thorne Smith nous raconte ici la fantastique aventure de T. Wooly Junior, de Warburton, puritain et végétarien, devenu bien malgré lui, l'amant puis l'époux d'une sorcière passionnée'. Broché, couverture de couleur, mention de 10e édition, en bon état général (quelques traces d'usure sur les bords du dos). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. This book is in good condition. The interior is clean. The is a bit of darkening of the paper on the inside of the covers. The boards are red with the lettering and art work in white. The dust jacket is in fair condition with quite a bit of wear and tear and chipping along the edges. The dust jacket is not price clipped and is in new mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Illustrated By Herbert Roese (illustrator). Fiction.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. A humorous story of a modern witch. Completed by Norman Matson. Illustrated by Herbert Roese. Reprinted. Methuen & Co Ltd, London 1952. illus viii + 248pp hb dw very torn & worn, covers slightly discoloured, pages slightly browned, pict olive dw, yellow cloth, book vg.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Fine. Just a little sunning to spine, mild age-toning to pages, otherwise a beautiful unread copy.

Methuen & Co. 1947. Sixth edition. Hardback with DW. Extremities lightly worn. Ownership signature to front endpaper otherwise a lovely copy in a worn wrapper.

6th edition hardback with dust jacket Very nice copy octavo 248pp., illusts., Very nice copy in green/grey boards in a nice Herbert Roese dust jacket. PHOTO available. Uncommon in this condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in tan cloth boards with red lettering to spine, no dustjacket. 248pp. B/w illustrations throughout. Not library copy, no inscriptions, light foxing to endpapers. (37/2).

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Ex-library book, usual markings. Well read with some wear but still very useable. No dust cover. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Condition: sehr gut. Sprache: deutsch Taschenbuch .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. vi+265 pages with illustrations by Herbert Roese. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in red cloth with cream lettering to spine and pictorial ribald picture and lettering to front cover. First edition. The Passionate Witch (1941, published posthumously and completed by Norman H. Matson). Produced in 1942 as the movie I Married a Witch, one of the inspirations along with Bell, Book and Candle for the long-running TV series Bewitched. A sequel to the novel, Bats in the Belfry (1942), is entirely by Matson, though sometimes attributed to Smith. Condition: Some light rubbing to points and spine heal, former owner's book plate to front pastedown. Jacket with some edge wear and small chips and closed tears, some light soiling else a very good copy in like jacket.…

First Edition, First Printing. Some slight rubbing to extremities, usual slight darkening of endpapers, else a very copy in original stamped cloth without dust jacket. The basis of the charming film comedy, I Married a Witch, starring Fredric March, Veronica Lake, Robert Benchley, and Susan Hayward.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-Library Book with usual markings. Library rebind with no dust cover. Clean copy, sound binding. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

near fine reddish binding, , very good - fine jacket some spine end chipping, bookplate.

near fine green binding, near fine jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Condition: Book: slight cover shelf wear, light tanning of interior pages and page edges Dust jacket: overall light tanning, price intact. Stated First Edition. "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.". Herbert Roese (illustrator). …