SMITH, THORNE (JAMES THORNE SMITH, JR. ) — Lazy Bear Lane

New York, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc. / Junior Books, 1931. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by George Shanks. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. This is a Doubleday file copy with an ink stamped " Return to: Junior Books Doubleday, Doran & Co." on the front endpaper. The book covers have some light bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners, along with some beginning spots of fraying. The text pages are generally clean and bright, weith some light generalized toning throughout. The illustrated endpapers are clean and bright. "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. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good .