MATSON, NORMAN

Bats In The Belfry

New York (no date, circa early fifties) Popular Library. 6 1/2 inch PB. 192 p. Popular Library # 200. Jennifer's lush charms drove men wild. ...a raffish yarn about Jennifer, the Passionate Witch.lower edge of text has light warp, book very slightly dished, otherwise clean and bright and tight. VG+ n

-- Little Journeys Bookshop

Book number: 4798

Catalogue: Vintage Paperback

MATSON, NORMAN

Bats in the Belfry

U.S. Popular Library 200. 1949, 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Square solid copy with a crease down center of front cover, a few smaller creases on front, pencil scribbling on back cover, and still bright covers show light wear. Good- Very Good.

-- John Thompson Books

Book number: 22887

Catalogue: Humor

Keywords: Fantasy Humor Vintage Paperback Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror

MATSON, NORMAN.

Bats in the Belfry.

Garden City. Doubleday, Doran & Co. 1943. First Edition.(Stated on the copyright page.) Listed in Bleiler with its ghostly connection! Matson co-authored with Thorne Smith The Passionate Witch. VG+/VG- in orange cloth stamped in black on the spine. In handsome, pictorial d/w by Roese with scantily-clad, ghostly beauty playing matchmaker while an irate wife stands with hands on hips severely chastising her husband for his dalliance. With some chipping to the top and bottom of the spine, a pinky fingernail-sized chip missing from the bottom of the front panel and a patch of color the size of a 50 cent piece leeched out at the top of the left-hand corner of the front panel. A scarce dustjacket on a collectible book with the original price of $2.00 on the inside front flap. With "Buy War Bonds "ad on the rare panel.

-- Brainerd F. Phillipson, Rare Books

Book number: 3029

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Fiction

MATSON, NORMAN

Day of Fortune

NY: Century Company, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. A very solid and crisp copy, 2nd printing. Original light green cloth binding with deep blue title and cover illustration. Cloth is worn and soiled generally. Hinges are sturdy and strong. A very hard-to-find book. Nameplate to front pastedown. All of our books are hand selected and are as described. Mylar protective sleeves are available.. Good .

-- Abandoned Books

Book number: 004892

Catalogue: Collector/Rare Editions, Antiquarian

MATSON, NORMAN

Doctor Fogg

Ernest Benn Limited, 1929. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. No dust jacket, some corner edge wear & smudging across boards, page ridges toned, some red paper transfer on rear inner boards, small hole to bottom page ridge, text clean & readable, binding tight. 1929 Hard Cover. 165 pp. "A shy and retiring Chicago scientist manages to communicate with an advanced alien civilization, whose scientific secrets he refuses to share with Earth's flawed political powers..".

-- Yesterday's Muse Books

Book number: 1517289

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Fiction::SF & Fantasy Fiction::SF & Fantasy

MATSON, NORMAN

The Log of the Coriolanus

New York: Vanguard Press, 1930. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

-- RareBookCellar.com

Book number: 23583

SMITH, THORNE; COMPLETED BY NORMAN MATSON

Passionate Witch, the [First Edition]

New York, NY, Doubleday, Doran, 1941. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Attractive first edition with interesting association. From the Rolland Comstock collection. Comstock was an internationally known book collector who was murdered in 2007 and the case remains unsolved to date. Comstock's bookplate / Ex Libris on the FEP. Comstock's "First Edition" sticker on the Brodart over the spine. The novel was Smith's last and was published post-humously after completion by Norman Matson. The novel was filmed in 1942 I Married a Witch, one of the inspirations for the TV series Bewitched. Red cloth board with yellow lettering. Some rubbing to spine ends and corners. Binding slightly cocked but solid. Pages very slightly tanned but supple. Jacket is attractive in Brodart protector. Some chipping to upper corners and some creasing and short tears/nicks to top edge. $2.00 flap price. Ill.: Roese, Herbert. Very Good/good.

-- Hang Fire Books, IOBA

Book number: 013739

Catalogue: Fiction::Mystery & Thriller

Keywords: Roese, Herbert

SMITH, THORNE (1892-1934). MATSON, NORMAN (1893-). ROESE, HERBERT, ILL.

The Passionate Witch / By Thorne Smith, Completed By Norman Matson, with Drawings By Herbert Roese

Garden City. N. Y. : The Sun Dial Press 1942. First Sun Dial Edition. Description: vi. 267 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. Genre: Fiction. Fine cloth copy in a very good. somewhat edge-torn (with minor loss) dust-jacket. now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and strong. Weight in Kg appr.: 1

-- MW Books

Book number: 152953