Bernard charles cronin (3 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good Dust Jacket. 216 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Very good price clipped dust jacket. The jacket is quite nice but shows some wear / rubbing on the edges and extremities. Jacket illustrated by Paul Blaisdell. NOTE: This copy is the 1964 3rd printing of the 1955 publication. Holt Rinehart and Winston is on the spine of the book. The jacket is from the John C. Winston Company. The rocket in a circle that the John C. Winston Company uses is on the title page of the book. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding. …

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. 1st Edition. Very good first edition. Binding square and tight. Bumping, wear to spine ends, edges, corners. Some light age-toning throughout. Fair dust jacket. Not price-clipped. General wear. Areas of loss to spine ends. Title, publisher's name partially lost. Area of loss to center of spine. Chipping to edges. Some separation from wear to folds, joints. Rubbing. Striking cover illustration by Paul Blaisdell still bright and intact. …

Octavo, cloth. First edition. A small party of geologists in the Central Australian desert are menaced by prehistoric insects. Part of the classic Winston science fiction series for young readers published between 1952 and 1961. "One of the best written of the 1950s Winston series and still enjoyable today." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 5-112. Former owner's name stamped on front free endpaper, a fine copy in nearly fine first printing dust jacket (26 titles listed on the rear panel) with touch of rubbing to edges, closed tear with associated crease at lower edge of rear panel, and ink check marks against titles listed on rear panel. Jacket illustration by Paul Blaisdell. (#136659).…