TOPPER: AN IMPROBABLE ADVENTURE

by Thorne Smith, James

$1,500 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1926. Octavo, pp. 1-12 1-292, publisher's red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, top edge stained yellow, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough trimmed. First edition. The first of Smith's two Topper books. A twentieth-century update of the Ansteyan fantasy, in which a boring commuter is taken up by a pair of freewheeling ghosts and taught to loosen up Brian

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