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The John C. Winston Company. Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1957. Hardcover. Some shelf wear to the spine edges and corners. The dust jacket has small chips and tears to the edges.; 0 pages .

U.S.A: John C. Winston Company. Fair with no dust jacket. 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in faded red cloth with black titles, boards rubbed at edges, pages tanned and page edges water marked, notes on the author in pencil on the front endpaper verso but no other inscriptions. 214 pages, pictorial endpapers .

John C. Winston Company, The, 1952. Hardcover. Good. 1st printing, No DJ, wear to top and bottom of spine

The John C. Winston Company, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. Stated first edition. Red cloth with black spine titles, very good with edgewear, slight fading along top edge. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket heavily scuffed and edgeworn, with chipping to corners and spine tips, pencil writing to rear panel. DJ price-clipped, protected in Mylar. Pages toned, text unmarked. With dust jacket design by Virgil Finlay, and endpaper art designed by Alex Schomburg.

Philadelphia. : John C. Winston. , 1952.. Stated first edition. . Decorated hard cover. . Fine copy. . Octavo. . Very scarce in this condition.

Winston, 1952 First Edition in Very Good condition with a Very Good Minus unclipped Dust Jacket protected by a Mylar Brodart. Red boards with black lettering. Pages tanning due to age.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good Minus. Hardcover.

John C Winston, 1952. 214pp. Red cloth hardback, DJ VG, paper has turned light brown, owner name on half title page, DJ has $2.00 price, stated First edition, Five Against Venus, . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Philadelphia: John C. WInston Company, 1952. First Edition stated. Hardcover . Used - near fine/Very good. 8 vo., Square, tight copy with clean text. Unclipped DJ ($2.00, with addtional $2.00 handwritten in ink next to price). DJ with light rubbing, tiny chips and tears to extremities. One inch faint creasemark to front panel near upper fold.

New York: The John C. Winston Company, 1952. First Edition. This book is a first edition. This book measures approximately 8.5" x 5.75" with 214 numbered pages. This book is in good minus condition. Moderate bumping to both ends of spine. Heavy staining both front and rear boards. Previous owner's signature on dedication page. Musty smell coming from book. Dust jacket is in good plus condition. Moderate chipping to both ends of spine. Moderate scuffing and staining to both panels. Original 2.00 price on front flap. "Five Against Venus" written by Philip Latham is a science fiction novel that is one of thirty-five novels that comprise the Winston Science Fiction set. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #(N4-16).

John C.Winston, 1956. 2nd Printing . Hardback. Fine/Near Fine. Cover Art By Virgil Finlay. crease to the dw front and rear panel

John C. Winston Company, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good ; Good Jacket. 1952 John C. Winston. First Edition, stated. No additional printings listed. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has red cloth-covered boards with black spine lettering and decorations. Endpaper design by Alex Schomburg. Jacket Design by Virgil Finlay. First state dust jacket, with four titles listed on rear panel. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Covers have light surface and edge wear, with light fading at the very bottom edge where the dust jacket did not completely protect the book from light. Top page edges lightly foxed. Pages tanned, more so at periphery, but still supple. Pages clean and unmarked. 214 pages. Dust jacket has light surface rubbing, chipped and nicked edges, and 2 small tears. Jacket is sunned so it has lost much of its original color. Jacket lettering is still bright, but only blue and faint red color remain; yellow and darker reds are no longer present. Dust jacket is NOT price clipped, showing… Read More

Philadelphia, PA: John C. Winston Co., 1952. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Virgil Finlay. VG/VG dj; now in archival Brodart. Stated First Edition; red boards, light rubbing, slight slant. Small chips and tears at spine ends, light overall rubbing to jacket, light soiling, pages typically browning. Four titles listed on back panel as correct for 1st state jacket. Alex Schomburg illustrated endpapers.

Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1952. First Edition. Octavo; VG/G; orange spine, black text; jacket has protective mylar cover, rubbing on front and back, staining on back, edge wear, chipping on spine head and tail, small open tears along tail edge, spotting on front and back flap, chipping on the head and tail of both flaps, price teared off; boards are strong, bumping around edges; textblock has severe age tanning, otherwise clean; pp 214. Shelve Case 8. 1285286. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company; (1952). First Edition . Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Very good+ in a very good dust jacket. Pages are browning, but not as badly as usual with this title; owner's bookplate on verso of half title page. The first issue dust jacket (four Winston titles listed on rear panel) is a little sunned on the spine and has a some rubbing and light edgewear. $2.00 price is on front flap. A tight, square copy.

Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1952. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); red boards stamped in black on spine; illustrated endpaper art by Alex Schomburg; dustjacket by Virgil Finlay; 214pp. some soiling mostly to upper textblock; a few minor bumps to board edge; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2,00); nicks and edgewear to the extremities; small chips at spine ends; Very Good. This is an intergalactic desert island story described as "a Venusian Robinsonade" CLUTE and NICHOLLS, 1275.

FIVE AGAINST VENUS, Winston, 1952, first edition, vg+ in bright first issue vg/vg+ full color Virgil Finlay pictorial dust-wrapper with only 4 titles listed on the rear dust-wrapper panel with some light wear and tear and some light rubbing to the rear dust-wrapper panel.

Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1958]. Later, fourth printing. Previous owners name in ink to rear free end paper, a fine copy in a fine dust jacket with a touch of wear to base of spine and lower corner tips (note: no printed price to jacket flap). A bright, sharp copy. Part of an original single owner collection. (27513). Octavo, jacket illustration by Virgil Finlay, cloth. A Robinsonade in which an "average American family" on their way to the Moon is stranded on Venus, an unpleasant, unexplored planet with a hostile environment including bat people and flesh eating plants. Part of the classic Winston science fiction series for young readers published between 1952 and 1961. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 5-54.

John C. Winston Company, 1952. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. John C. Winston Company, 1952. Stated First Edition. Very Good+/Near Fine. Stated First Edition in clean bright original unclipped dust jacket. Very clean unfaded red cloth boards with black lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Beautifully illustrated endpapers (by Alex Schomburg) are clean, with small neatly penned previous owner name at top edge of front free endpaper. All pages are clean, but tanned. 214 pages. Dust jacket is designed by Virgil Finlay, clean and bright, not price clipped (2.00 on front inside flap), no chips or tears. Four science fiction novels listed on rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover..

Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company , 1952. SIGNED BY AUTHOR at copyright page - "Robert S. Richardson". Illustrated end papers by Alex Schomburg; dust jacket art by Virgil Finlay. Indiana author and astronomer Robert Shirley Richardson's (1902 - 1981) first novel , written under the pen name Philip Latham. RARE SIGNED BY AUTHOR, no other signed copies of any of his books available in current commerce, none found in auction records. Near Fine, a few small spots of fading rear cover, pages browning as usual, in a Near Fine dust jacket, small rubs at spine ends and fore edge of front flap. . SIGNED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.