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Rip Foster Rides The Grey Planet
by Savage, Blake (Pseudonym – Goodwin, Harold L.)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Golden Press, Sydney, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: E. Deane Cate. Illustrated end pages and the drawings within the text have all been executed by E. Deane Cate. Red coloured boards with black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. A book from the early 1950s for young adults, in ripping style. Young Rip Foster has just graduated and commissioned in the Planeteer corps (space going Marine) his tasked with retrieving an asteroid made of pure thorium from the asteroid belt, back to work to use as energy. But, agents from other countries also seek to control the asteroid ... Softening of the back strip edges with baiting and staining to the back strip itself. Bumping of the book corners with the underlying board visible. There is a bow in the front panel and the boards shows stains and marks. Age toning of the text block edges and panels with scattered fine foxing to the text block edges and throughout stop there has been a little bleaching of the cover colour to the end pages and there is offset tanning to the selfsame end pages. Gift inscription to the calf title page. This is the first Australian edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 183, [1] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: E. Deane Cate. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; Inventory No: 0127459. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0127459
- Title
- Rip Foster Rides The Grey Planet
- Author
- Savage, Blake (Pseudonym – Goodwin, Harold L.)
- Illustrator
- E. Deane Cate
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Golden Press
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- BZDB2 science fiction, adolescent, 1950s, Rip Foster, Cold War – political analogy Science Fiction & Fantasy; E. Deane Cate Unbranded Savage, Blake (Pseudonym – Goodwin, Harold L.) Rip Foster Rides The Grey Planet
Terms of Sale
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
transaction in Australian $'s for checks and money orders.If the book is not as described, return within 14 days, for a refund of the cost of the book.
We are registered for GST and goods sold to an Australian delivery address will include GST. Our ABN 15 100 960 047
About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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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