Fifty Candles [Jacket title: 50 Candles]
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1926).
Price: $100.00
Hardcover. First edition. Owner name, a little scuffing to the front board, a very good copy in a worn, good only dustwrapper with loss at the spine ends, and a relatively large dampstain on the rear panel. A short story that originally appeared in a magazine, and which was the basis for a 1921 silent film directed by Irvin Willat.
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Earl Derr Biggers
birth name: Earl Derr Biggers
born: 8/26/1884
died: 4/5/1933
Biography
American novelist and journalist best remembered for the popular literary creation Charlie Chan. A wise Chinese-American detective on the Honolulu police force, Charlie Chan is the protagonist of a series of mystery detective novels that spawned popular feature films, radio dramas, and comic strips. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore