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Danger: Dinosaurs !
by Marsten, Richard
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Baldwinsville, New York, United States
Item Price
NZ$452.46NZ$407.21
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About This Item
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co., 1953. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good/Good. Octavo. Schomberg, Alex [jacket & endpapers]. Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co., 1953. First Edition [stated] and first printing. Octavo, olive-green cloth (the green cloth apparently varied a bit in shade with this title), 210 pp.; pictorial jacket, correct with twenty titles on the back. Iconic endpaper designs of course are by Alex Schomburg; in this case, as with several others in the series, Schomburg also executed the memorable dustjacket. Near Fine book, with very little sign of wear anywhere; top page edges a bit darker than bottom edges or fore-edges, as is almost always the case. Not a whole lot of age-toning to the textblock, either. Jacket isn't quite VG, but is NOT price-clipped, still showing the $2.00 price. One notable chip, top front, peripheral wear, rubbing (see scans). Tight, complete, clean and, though somewhat worn, still a solid example of an inexpensively produced, always-actually-read-by-the-original-owner title. If you're here - and you are - you know the Winston series of juvenile sci-fi novels, a 37-title series issued between 1952 and 1961. The first editions are not common, Danger: Dinosaurs !, from early in the series, has long been known to be one of the scarcest, a work by Richard Marsten, one of the many pseudonyms of famed writer/screenwriter Evan Hunter ("Evan Hunter" was itself a pseudonym, for the real guy, Salvatore Albert Lombino). - Jeff Harvey L64
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- Bookseller
- Singularity Rare & Fine
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001361
- Title
- Danger: Dinosaurs !
- Author
- Marsten, Richard
- Illustrator
- Schomberg, Alex [jacket & endpapers]
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The John C. Winston Co.
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1953
- Pages
- 210
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Sci-fi, Science Fiction, Juvenile Adventure, Time Travel, "Science Fiction, Fantasy, Magic", General
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction;
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Singularity Rare & Fine
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Baldwinsville, New York
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- Tight
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- Jacket
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- Fine
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- Octavo
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- VG
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- First Edition
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