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The Year When Stardust Fell - 1958 Stated First Edition in First-State Dustjacket
by Jones, Raymond F
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Good Plus
- Seller
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Baldwinsville, New York, United States
Item Price
NZ$569.73NZ$512.76
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About This Item
Philadephia: John C. Winston, 1958. First Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Good Plus. Octavo. Heugh, James; Schomburg, Alex. Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1958. First Edition [stated] in First State dustjacket. Jacket Design by James Heugh; endpaper art by Alex Schomburg. Octavo, 203 pp. Yellow cloth with blue spine lettering and blue rocket ship, emblematic of this famous Winston series, at spine bottom. A Near Fine book, gleaming, clean and no salient flaws, as close to Fine as a Near Fine can be, in a Good-plus jacket (see scans) Jacket which has several closed tears and some notable spine end wear including a chip at bottom end. Interestingly, one of the few jackets I have seen in this Winston series without bias cut flaps, though there is no price; of this particular title, I have not yet seen a priced flap. There may not have been one. One of relatively few book-length titles by the author of "This Island Earth". Scarce first edition of a scarce title in a series which was immensely popular in the fifties and appears to be even more so now. 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. I still read them from time to time. The first editions are not common, and The Year When Stardust Fell is one of the scarcest. L64
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- Bookseller
- Singularity Rare & Fine
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001349
- Title
- The Year When Stardust Fell - 1958 Stated First Edition in First-State Dustjacket
- Author
- Jones, Raymond F
- Illustrator
- Heugh, James; Schomburg, Alex
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good Plus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John C. Winston
- Place of Publication
- Philadephia
- Date Published
- 1958
- Pages
- 203
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Science Fiction Sci-fi Apocalypse, General, "Science Fiction, Fantasy, Magic
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction;
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