Blackie and Son Ltd, London, No date. Edition Unstated. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Fair. Illustrator: Geo. W. Blow -- Cover Art. 224 pages foreword by author. Black-and-white illustrated frontispiece, with the artist being credited with the letter " B ". Brown coloured boards with black writing on the front panel and spine. Bumping, rubbing and slight fraying to the head and to the heel of the spine and to the book corners. Shelfwear to the lower book corners. Browning and foxing to the paper edges. Browning to the endpapers along with some handling marks an internal pages have become age toned again with handling marks. Book Prize Plate has been affixed to the front paste down. Illustrated dustwrapper, by Geo. W. Blow, with orange and yellow writing on the front panel and black, white and yellow on the spine. Chipping and rubbing, with loss, to the dustwrapper corners and to the lower spine edge. The top 0.25 " of the spine has been chipped and lost and a previous owner has attempted to support this loss with tape, tape still in situ. Heavy rubbing along all creases of the dustwrapper. Staining to the rear fold over crease area and there is also a stain to the lower left-hand corner of the rear dustwrapper panel. Rubbing and chipping to the top and bottom dustwrapper edges as well. Clipping of the dustwrapper, front fold over, the lower right-hand corner. Tape residue to the verso of the rear fold over panel and to the head and to the heel of the spine. The book is undated, but the Prize plate is dated 1954. Juvenile space-adventure novel written by an actual scientist. "His heroes are three boys who, because of their curiosity, find themselves aboard the Wonder Machine, adrift in the stratosphere and in touch with Mars." -- from the front fold over blurb. Size: 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Geo. W. Blow -- Cover Art. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; Fiction -- Adolescent; Inventory No: 0104747. .

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Bookseller: Syber's Books ABN 40533682787 (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 0104747
Title: Adrift in the Stratosphere
Author: Low, Professor A. M
Illustrator: Geo. W. Blow -- Cover Art
Format/Binding: Hardcover (Original Cloth)
Book Condition: Used - Good Condition
Jacket Condition: Fair
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Edition Unstated
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Blackie and Son Ltd
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: No date
Keywords: BZDB2 Science Fiction -- Juvenile Reading -- 1950s Science Fiction & Fantasy; Fiction -- Adolescent; Geo. W. Blow -- Cover Art Unbranded Low, Professor A. M. Adrift in the Stratosphere
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction -- Adolescent;

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General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online

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Blurb: The blurb refers to the commentary that appears on the dust jacket flaps or the rear of the dustjacket. In the case of a...
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