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[New York]: The Mysterious Press / Warner Books 1995 Hardcover. 0892965789 . First US edition. 308 pages. Near Fine copy in Near Fine jacket with some creasing to the rear panel to/near the top and bottom edges. clph

Boston, Massachusetts: Rust Craft. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1960. Single Card. This vintage bookmark is in near fine collectible condition with light dust soiling. A 1 1/2 by 6 Inch Book Mark. See Photos; Lovely illustrated bookmark with a verse from Russ Craft who were makers of greeting cards, recipe cards, and other printed items; Drawing .whbx 2

1976. First Edition. Softcover. Copy #32 of an unstated number of copies. (32 inside the knight's shield drawing) This copy has been warmly inscribed and signed [as/by both "Harold & Brenda" with each person signing their own name]. Christmas card in the form of a illustrated [photographs and drawings] collection of poetry. The photograph models are Bruce Baer, Brenda Lynch, H. Warner Munn, Chris Nelson and Wilum Pugmire. The drawings are by Gene Day and Chris Nelson. Pictorial wrappers [about 5.5" x 7"], unpaginated [20 total pages not counting the cover], illustrated. Near Fine copy with a few tiny spots to rear cover and a small spot to the last page. See Photos. bx131E

[London]: 1928-1939 First Edition. Hardcover. Each separate title [varying page counts but generally 64 to 96 pages, with occasional illustrations] presumed to be a first edition. Juvenile British science fiction/fantasy "novels" [complete with their original paper pictorial covers] privately bound into nine sturdy hardcover volumes [matching solid black bindings, about 5.5" x 7", with gold gilt spine lettering, save for what would the seventh volume which unaccountably has no spine lettering]. [The titles/authors are: The Iron-Clad Army #132/Leslie Beresford, The Flying Fish #311/Leslie Beresford, When the Great Apes Came #507/Stuart Martin, Vull the Invisible #554/Temple Murdoch; Despot of the World #278/Geo. E. Rochester, The Sea Spider #537/Geo. E. Rochester, The Black Mole #561/Geo. E. Rochester, The Lost Squadron #636/Geo. E.Rochester; Kings of the Amazon #212/Wingrove Willson, The Isle of Peril #256/Stacey Blake, Lord of the Incas #499/Dave Gregory, Cave-Boy Erek #164/Douglas Dundee; The Buried… Read More

Louisville, KY Bureau of Critics Press of Geo. G. Fetter Co 1932. First Edition. Softcover. Joshi I-A-6a. A very scarce, verging on rare, booklet. Printed wrappers about 6" x 9" , saddle-stapled, 13+ pages. Two mailing folds else generally VG+ copy with two small spot stains. See Photos ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; LR2/6E

Philadelphia Record This Week Magazine Section Date: October 30, 1938. First thus edition. 20 page stapled supplement. 10.75 x 16 inches. Cover photo by Hewitt, Keene and PatstonContents include: Mrs. Tupper Takes a Vacation by Everett Rhodes Castle, Does a Red Light Means Stop? By William F.McDermott, Coffee For Two by Francis Dears, If She Wants Rhythm by Margaret Weymouth Jackson, and more.Illustrated by James Montgomery Flagg, Jules Gotlieb, J. Clymer, and others.Advertising for Delmonte, Velure, Dentyne, and more.Condition: Very good with age toning to edges, small edge tears. See photos. Bxthisweek

Planet of the Apes Vanguard Press 1963 1st ed. 1st American 1st printing. 246pp. "I am confiding this manuscript to space, not with the intention of saving myself, but to help, perhaps, to avert the appalling scourge that is menacing the human race. Lord have pity on us!"With these words, Pierre Boulle hurtles the reader onto the Planet of the Apes. In this simian world, civilization is turned upside down: apes are men and men are apes; apes rule and men run wild; apes think, speak, produce, wear clothes, and men are speechless, naked, exhibited at fairs, used for biological research. On the planet of the apes, man, having reached to apotheosis of his genius, has become inert.To this planet come a journalist and a scientist. The scientist is put into a zoo, the journalist into a laboratory. Only the journalist retains the spiritual strength and creative intelligence to try to save himself, to fight the appalling scourge, to remain a man.Out of this situation, Pierre Boulle has woven a tale as… Read More