The Rat Race by Franklin, Jay - 1950

Los Angeles:: Fantasy Publishing,, 1950.. First edition. First state jacket.. Hardcover.. Publishers cloth, minor edges wear, spine ends bumped, slightly soiled. Illustrated dust jacket, rare first state, edge wear and rubbing, some chipping to edges and small loss at top of spine, overall still very good. In protective mylar.

Los Angeles: Fantasy Publishing Co., Inc, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. 10mo; G+/G; black spine with white and yellow text; stated first edition; dust jacket exterior shows slight shelf wear; more noticeable wear to rear with slight soiling; minor edge wear; minor foxing to rear edges; protective mylar wrap to jacket; cloth exterior has slight handling wear; some rubbing wear to edges; tight binding; textblock has mild tone; pp 371. 1358779. FP New Rockville Stock.

fpci, first edition , later binding, bluish hardcover. fine in a fine dust jacket 1950, some bumping

CA: Fantasy, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. About Very good in good dustwrapper. Pages brown. Water stain on bottom corners of pages. Corners bent. Edges of spine bumped. Slight spine lean. Edges of dustwrapper worn and torn. Dustwrapper shelf rubbed. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

New York: Fantasy Publishing Co, Inc, 1950. Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. First Edition. Book is in Very Good + condition. Boards have a tiny bit of shelf wear. Fore edges have a small amount of wear. Interior is clean and legible. Not remaindered. Dust Jacket is in Very Good + condition. Tiny bit of shelf wear/rub. Tiniest bit of wear along the edges. Not price clipped. Dust Jacket is covered by Mylar wrapper. Thanks and Enjoy. All-ways well boxed, All-ways fast service. Thanks..

Los Angeles: Fantasy Publishing Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1950. First Edition. Book minor wear head of spine, first few bottom page edge corners slightly crinkled. DJ small pieces missing left rear extremity but still intact, minor cornerwear, small chips missing along bottom edge rear panel and flap, two small chips missing along top edge front panel. ; 12mo, bright green cloth, unclipped DJ, 371pp. .

Los Angeles: Fantasy Publishing Company Inc. 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Green binding/black Dust Wrapper. 371 pages. Very good with offset to pastedowns, dust soiling to page edges, light edge wear, in jacket with edge wear, rubbing, and soiling, heaviest to rear panel See photos clphE

fpci, first edition hardcover. fine in a fine dust jacket 1950, green binding, some bumping

USA : FANTASY PUBLISHING, 1950. 1ST EDITION. SOFTCOVER. VERY GOOD/GOOD++. USA : FANTASY PUBLISHING, 1950. 1ST EDITION. VERY GOOD/GOOD++. USA : FANTASY PUBLISHING, 1950. 1ST EDITION. VERY GOOD/GOOD++. USA : FANTASY PUBLISHING, 1950. 1ST EDITION. VERY GOOD/GOOD++. Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc., Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., 1950. Soft cover. Book Condition: VG with wear darling at top and bottom of spine and front bottom in a GOOD++ Dust Jacket that has some shelf wear a a small missing piece at top of spine else book and jacket are in very good shape given age. First Edition First Printing. Very scarce offering from the small Fantasy Publishing Co. of Los Angeles, a FIRST EDITION, First Printing, from 1950, with vintage mid-century DJ illustration (unattributed author). Very clean, binding strong & straight, pages uniformly off-white; no tanning or foxing. Absolutely NO writing or underlining or highlighting; not ex-lib. The price-clipped DJ. mylar cover, not remaindered or book club… Read More

Los Angeles, CA: Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1950. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. First edition, first binding. 2000 copies printed of which 1200 were hardbound in FPCI bindings. (Currey). Second State dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and mostly bright. The first twenty pages or so have some light rippling to the bottom third of the pages by the bottom corner. And the first three pages have some very light tidemarking. "John Franklin Carter a. K. A. Jay Franklin a. K. A. Diplomat a. K. A. Unofficial Observer (1897–1967) was an American journalist, columnist, biographer and novelist. He notably wrote the syndicated column, "We the People", under his pen name Jay Franklin. He wrote over 30 books on a variety of subjects, including his detective novels about the character Dennis Tyler.… Read More