rocket jockey de john philip (29 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.95.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.95.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Young male hero struggles to win the Solar System rocket race, "The Armstrong Classic." YA science fiction. Fourth printing. Vertical wrinkle along spine. Minor shelf wear. Small stain on edges of pages in last 1/4 of book. No DJ.

Cloth. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Alex Schomburg Ilustrador. Grey HC shows wr. to extremeties, ends of sp. sl. wr., fep has blackout top - owner's name. the back eps' of the science fiction illust.is good. 207 pp., int. good +, lst prt. July 1952, 2nd prt. March 1956.

4th printing. Condición: very good in worn dust jacket. Cecile Matschat, editor, Carl Carmer, consulting editor.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. Stated third printing. Pages are yellowed but clean and unmarked. Price-clipped dust jacket is lightly worn at edges, with small area of loss at base of spine; back panel yellowed.

Hardcover. Condición: very good. no jacket. no additional printings listed . NOT an ex library book. Book with dark blue binding, print and decoration in orange. 207 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good Plus. Estado de la sobrecubierta: VG-. 3rd Printing. Light blue boards with dark blue printing to spine have one bumped tip and some edgewear tos spine ends but tight and square with no markings. Price clipped jacket has small chips to spine ends and front fold with light wear to rear panel. Jacket illustrated nicely by Alex Schomburg. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Third printing (as stated upon copyright page; first published July 1952). xiv, 207 pages. Hardcover: H 21.75cm x L 14.5cm. Dust jacket retains bright color to front panel and spine illustration; dj rubbed with some scuffs at edges; bumping and wear along top edges as they fractionally overlap the boards and spine; foxing/toning to rear panel and flaps; flap corners trimmed with front flap's top corner price-clipped; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Gray cloth; toned spine retains its blue stamping; bumping to boards' bottom fore-edge corners. Foxing/toning to text block edges and endpapers; staining to pages 79-84; a few scattered light foxing spots to interior leaves which otherwise remain clean. Binding is firm. Title page cites Alex Schomburg as both dust jacket and endpaper illustrator but this third printing has blank endpapers (Winston tended to issue illustrated endpapers only with their first printings).

Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. First edition (stated) / first printing. Book is in very good (upper front corner bumped, previous owners name on first title page) condition with a very good (price clipped, rubbing and edgewear, small chips at extremities) dustjacket protected in a Brodart wrapper. An Attractive Copy! Please feel free to ask me for pictures or more information, Thanks.

Hardcover in Grey Buckram. Condición: Ex Libris. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition, Stated. Ex Libris. Signs of former library book include debossed stamp on cover (SF LIbrary). Tape marks from dust jacket tape, shadow of an adhered card pocket on the first free end paper, stamp stating "juvenile fiction" on the copyright page, and some dog-ear creases and such to pages. Still a very collectable copy of early Del Rey writing as Philip St. John - see photos. DJ is protected in a new Brodart cover and retains bright colorful space age artwork by Alex Schomberg.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good-. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Second Printing. Book has mild toning, light edgewear, foxing to top page ends; DJ has several small chips to spine, tiny chips to folds, several small tears w/wrinkling, rubbing, light toning, foxing to interior, couple tiny numbers on front flap; DJ in protective Brodart cover ; 207 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good+. First Edition. 207 p. 22 cm. Sound and square binding in grey, cloth-covered boards with navy, stamped spine titles. Corners bumped, with light wear. Spine ends a bit crinkled. Small pull mark on the half title page. Tiny spot in margin of two pages, otherwise the inside pages are clean and unmarked. Dustjacket has heavy wear to the spine ends, with paper loss at each end. Corners and edges also worn, including tears, creases and tiny chips. The spine is rubbed and very slightly faded at the top. Reverse side has some browning. Price clipped. A title in the Winston Science Fiction series for juvenile readers. Jacket and endpapers designed by Alex Schomburg.

Cloth. Condición: Very Good +. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good -. First Edition. (1952), 207pp, illus. eps, a couple small tears & small crease to dj, slight rubbing & edgewear to dj, contents clean.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Cover. Schomburg, Alex Ilustrador. Second Edition. Very Good Hardcover No dustjacket illustrated by Alex Schomburg.

Philadelphia (1952). 8.5 x 5.5", cloth, 207pp., v.g. in torn and rubbed dw. FIRST EDITION.

Hardcover. Condición: Very good +. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very good +. Alex Schomburg Ilustrador. Early Printing. 207pp. Octavo. [22cm]. Blue cloth over boards. Yellow stamped title on spine and yellow stamped illustration on font board. Publisher's black topstain on text block. Two illustrated dust jackets and illustrated endpapers. Text block edges are slightly yellowed. Both dust jackets have minor tears and the corners are clipped but the price is still intact. Inner jacket has impression of the illustration on the boards. Jacket and endpaper illustrations by Alex Schomburg.

Later, fourth printing. Octavo, jacket illustration by Alex Schomburg, cloth. The adventures of a young space pilot competing in the eighteenth Armstrong Classic, an interplanetary rocket race. Del Rey's third science-fiction book and second novel. Part of the popular Winston juvenile series published between 1952-1961, which introduced many young readers to science fiction. This is Del Rey's third SF book and second novel. Previous owners name in ink to rear free end paper, a fine copy in a fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing at extremities and a very tiny nick and crease to upper front panel, two small rub spots to lower spine panel (note: no printed price to jacket flap). A bright, sharp copy. Part of an original single owner collection. (27516).

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 2nd Edition. An unusual oversized paperback edition of this book. I've seen this format in advance review copy, but this is a stated-second printing. One of my well-respected colleagues in the book business tells me this may have been an unusual Armed Services edition sent to the troops overseas. Unusual in this format in any case.

Softcover. Condición: Very Good-. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. Second Printing. Original stiff pictorial wraps. Stated 2nd printing. Joints rubbed, old tape repairs to spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 207 pages.

Softcover. Condición: Very Good-. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good-. Illustrated by Alex Schomburg Ilustrador. First Edition. Stated first edition softcover. Advance proof copy; stamped to the half title page "Review Copy." Signed to the title page by artist Alex Schomburg. Dustjacket has detached from the textblock and there are old tape marks to the endpapers and DJ. The rear flap has detached from the DJ (included) and the DJ in mylar is rubbed/edgeworn/creased. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Illustrator.

hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Includes dust jacket. First Edition. stated first. dj in mylar sleeve, shows minor wear. pages clean.

Unknown Binding. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 207 pp; First Edition, stated. Book has no names, pages unmarked, illustrated endpapers by Schomburg, very light foxing on top edge, exterior and interior gutters are toned. Bound in light gray fabric with black text. Spine ends slightly turned under, corners square. Dust jacket is unclipped ($2.00) , all corners with 1/4 inch wear, 1/8 inch missing at spine ends. Jacket art is colorful, including spine. Light toning to upper edge of white rear panel. Ten titles listed on the rear panel. A nice, clean, tight and very attractive book.

Octavo, cloth. First edition. The adventures of a young space pilot competing in the eighteenth Armstrong Classic, an interplanetary rocket race. Del Rey's third science-fiction book and second novel. Part of the classic Winston science fiction series for young readers published between 1952 and 1961. A fine copy in nearly fine first printing dust jacket (10 titles listed on rear panel) with rubbing to spine panel and three tiny unnecessary internal tape mends. Jacket illustration by Alex Schomburg. (#163495).

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First edition. Original gray cloth. The jacket and endpapers are designed by Alex Schomburg. The jacket is complete. There are some very minor areas of rubbing along the edges and at both spine ends. Very minor wear at the corners and narrow area of rubbing running down much of the spine. Still, a very nice copy of this book. Fine / Very Good.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Del Rey, Lester, writing as "Philip St. John." [207] pp. The John C. Winston Company 1956 Second Printing 8 1/2" x 6" Cover and endpapers by Alex Schomburg. VG/ VG The adventures of a young space pilot competing in the eighteenth Armstrong Classic, an interplanetary rocket race. Del Rey's third science-fiction book and second novel. Part of the classic Winston science fiction series for young readers published between 1952 and 1961.

Cloth. Condición: Near fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: near fine. The signed first edition of Rocket Jockey by Lester del Rey, written under the pen name of Philip St. John. Ilustrador. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, xi, [3], 207pp. Beige cloth, title stamped in blue on the spine. Stated "First Edition" on the copyright page. Illustrated endpapers. Light spotting to edges of text block, a near fine example. In the publisher's first state dust jacket, $2.00 on front flap, ten titles listed on rear panel, faint shelf wear, bright illustrations. An attractive, near fine example. Dust jacket art by Alex Schomburg, the Hugh Award nominee for Best Professional Artist in 1962. (Currey, 143) Signed by Lester del Rey on the title page in black pen. This juvenile science fiction work was part of the Winston Science Fiction set. It was published in 1966 in the United Kingdom, with the revised title of Rocket Pilot.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First edition. Cover and endpapers by Alex Schomburg. Quarto. 207pp. Near fine with two corners bump and bit of toning to the pastedown from the binder's glue in very good rubbed first issue dust jacket (10 tiles on the rare jacket) and moderate edgewear, including chips, creases and small tears. Inscribed by the author using both his pen names: "To Charlie + Marsha - of course - Philip St. John / Lester del Rey." One of the author's early juvenile books inscribed to Charles N. Brown, editor of *Locus* and his wife Marsha, who later married noted British sci-fi artist Eddie Jones. A nice association copy between two important and influential science-fiction editors.