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Happy Returns
by Coles, Manning (Cyril Henry Coles and Adelaide Manning)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
-
Northfield, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1955. In this comic sequel to Brief Candles, ghosts Charles and James Latimer return to help their present-day relatives. Gently bumped with just a touch of rubbing at the edges, faint tanning to the edges of the text block. Jacket lightly rubbed with tiny chips to the edges, a bit of foxing to the rear flap, in Brodart. Laid in is an envelope containing a 2 page handwritten letter, dated 2/3/55, which states, in part "Doubleday will be publishing "Happy Returns" shortly" and is signed Cyril H. Coles.. Inscribed By the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.
Synopsis
The ghostly cousins from *Brief Candles* are back to help a young relative who is being pursued by a determined widow, managing to help out with bank robbers, a duel, and a murder along the way.
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Details
- Bookseller
- MLC Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 180676
- Title
- Happy Returns
- Author
- Coles, Manning (Cyril Henry Coles and Adelaide Manning)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1955
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
MLC Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
MLC Books
Biblio member since 2009
Northfield, Minnesota
About MLC Books
MLC Books has been selling online since 2006, with a heavy emphasis on vintage and collectible crime fiction, other fiction, and books related to Minnesota. A diverse general stock available as well.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
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