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Smith, Thorne. Illustrated by Herbert Roese. RAIN IN THE DOORWAY.
Sun Dial Press, Garden City, New York, c1933, later printing (ca.1951).
304 pp, small 8vo (7 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w illustrations. "When the mysterious hand pulled Mr. Hector Owen (who was waiting there pretty hopelessly for his wife) through the rainswept, dismal doorway on a depressing New York stre et, it pulled him at the same time into a new life - a life where inhibitions vanished and dreams came true. For this is the odyssey of Mr. Owen, the average man, who never had had his share of fun, whom life bullied and harried, who wanted nothin g so much as to go away somewhere and hide. Instead, through the miraculous doorway, he was to meet love and adventure, to fall in with Miss Honor Knightly, that paragon of her sex; with Mr. Monk, who had written a book, and with Minnie the stuffe d whale, who was simply inert; with the three outrageous shopkeepers, Messrs. Larkin, Britt-Britt and Dinner; with hordes of women who pursued him clamorously; with triple martinis served in a stein; with, in short, the kind of a life he had always wa nted to live. As tender and wise as he is funny, Thorne Smith has made this book for and about all of us. It will take high place in the gay, ribald gallery with 'Turnabout', 'The Bishop's Jaegers', 'The Stray Lamb' and his other masterpieces o f l aughter and satire." Previous owner's initials and date on free front endpaper, light edge wear, light wrinkling at top of spine. Dust jacket is clipped, has light edge wear/wrinkling at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, light rubbing, sligh t da rkening to spine and flap-folds, a few tiny tears at top of spine - taped. Very Good-/Good+
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Smith, Thorne. THE GLORIOUS POOL.
Methuen, London, 1952, reprint.
297 pp, small 8vo (7 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "One of Thorne Smith's wild and delightful fantasies. It is the tale of Rex Pebble, an elderly gentleman who managed to keep on good terms with his wife as well as his mistress, Spray Summer s. One evening he went to call on Spray, carrying under his arm a slight but insulting present to her from his wife. As he was sitting by the pool in the garden of Spray's house he looked at the statue of a young nymph which stood in the pool. T o his amazement the nymph beckoned and Rex leaped into the pool....When (he) emerged, something quite extraordinary had happened....'The Glorious Pool' answers the age-old wish, 'If I could only be young again!' It is a saga of the universal dre am , the dream of youth in which, as in a mirror, Thorne Smith reflects all the foibles, the inconsistencies and the manners of our times. The novel also adds to the Thorne Smith gallery another immortal, Mr. Henry the sad bloodhound who could not sme ll ." Small split in paper at top of inside front hinge, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, small bump at three corners, tiny bump at top edge of rear board, light edge wear. Dust jacket light edge wrinkling, one small closed tear, light brow nin g on spine and flap-folds, crease down spine, very light edge wear. Very Good-/Very Good-
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