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Published by Hutchinson & Co, 1111
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. 240 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Book has a forward lean. Boards are bowed.
Published by winston, 1952, first edition ,,, 1952
Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
good, hole in spine, chipped spine end and corners, $2.00 intact jacket only, NO BOOK.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Good in a Good jacket, unclipped (7/6 net), generally rubbed and with multiple chips, closed tears, creases, and scuffs. Grey boards, a dent matching the one on the jacket, with black ink lettering on the spine. Bound with a slight forward lean and some reading wear, foxed at the edges. Oliver's time-travelling novel that sees a man back in 50,000 BC fighting for survival on the plains of the Ice Age.
Published by John C. Winston Company, Philadelphia, 1960
Seller: Homeward Bound Books, Campbellcroft, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Fourth Printing. 208 p. 22 cm. Sound and square binding in grey, cloth-covered boards with brown stamped spine titles. Predation damage to the spine ends and one nibbled area in centre of spine. The endpapers and inside pages are clean and unmarked but tanned. Dustjacket has been chewed at the spine ends and in a couple of places on the spine. Spine lightly faded. The edges and corners show some wear, including creases and tiny tears. A few small pencil marks on front panel. Shelf rubbed with light soil overall. A title in the Winston Science Fiction series for juvenile readers. Jacket and endpapers designed by Alex Schomburg.
Published by Gregg Press, Boston, 1979
ISBN 10: 083982520XISBN 13: 9780839825203
Seller: Mark Henderson, Olathe, KS, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition thus. The dust jacket has light edge wear. Book.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Light scuffing and smudging across boards and spine strip. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 1.01.
Published by U. - M. "West-Friesland", Hoorn, 1952
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Drawings By Wim Bink (illustrator). First Dutch Edition. 188 Pp. Illustrated Glossy Paper Covered Boards. Light Wear At Corners.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.01.
First edition. The first book from science fiction author from Texas, Symmes Chadwick Oliver (1828-1993). Part of the Winston Science Fiction series for young rearders, and one of the original 10 published in 1952. 8vo, 208pp. Illustrated endpapers and dustjacket by Alex Schomburg. Publisher's drab cloth, spine lettered in brown. Some toning to boards, toning to page block in jacket with foxing to rear panel, chipping at spine ends, and a small split down from upper corner at fold. Very good.
Published by Hutchinson & Co, London, 1952
Seller: Durdles Books (IOBA) (PBFA), Birmingham, United Kingdom
Association Member: IOBA
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition first printing 1954, the boards are clean and sharp, with slightly softened corners. The spine is straight with perfect titling, the ends are bumped and lightly faded where the jacket has losses. The text block edges are toned. There is a previous booksellers neat pencil price to the half title page. The pages are crisp and clean, no spots marks or tears. Feels very well bound and lightly read. very good condition. The jacket as historic tape to the top and bottom edges of the jacket, going on to the flaps, with additional pieces of tape to the verso of head and foot of the spine, where there are losses. The spine is a touch lightened, the front panel has bold colours and minimal rubbing, the rear panel is glossy and white. Jacket grades as good. For grading accuracy books are photographed without a protective book cover. This book is fitted with a non adhesive archival quality book protector to make a worthy addition to your collection. Note we do not use stock images, the book pictured is the book described. An otherwise very nice copy, reduced by the historic tape. This novel was serialized in Astounding and collected in the 1947 Hadley Publication. The text for this second edition was heavily reworked by van Vogt.
Published by Hutchinson & Co, London
Seller: The Bookstore, Belfast, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good tight condition, prize label on end page dated 1961, sporadic marks, red boards, dustwrapper has wear and some tears.
Published by Hutchinson, 1954
Seller: Aardvark Rare Books, Bucknell, SHROP, United Kingdom
hardcover. Condition: Very Good. **HARDBACK** In unclipped dustjacket No stamps or inscriptions; clean condition; 1st Hutchinson 1954; jacket has tiny losses and tears to top edge of front panel; inside book clean with no stampsor inscriptions.
Published by London: Hutchinson & Co 1950 First UK Hardcover Edition cr.8vo 240pp, 1950
Seller: N & A Smiles, Kellerberrin, WA, Australia
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. VG original teal cloth, slightly soiled, spine slightly sunned, illustrated end-papers, rear page almost loose, otherwise internally very clean throughout.
Published by Winston, New York, NY, 1952
Seller: Mind Electric Books, Smyrna, GA, U.S.A.
Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Alex Schomberg (dust jacket) (illustrator). Third printing (stated). Book is in fine condition with a near fine (price clipped, slight rubs on the spine) dustjacket protected in a Brodart wrapper. An Attractive Copy! Please feel free to ask me for pictures or more information, Thanks.
Condition: Near fine in near fine jacket. Scarce Gregg Press reprint edition of Symmes Chadwick Oliver's first novel. MISTS OF DAWN was originally published in 1952 as part of the Winston Juvenile Series of science fiction novels for young adults, brought back into print by editors David G. Hartwell and L.W. Currey. All books in the series featured an authorial introduction discussing the scientific foundations of the story to follow; in MISTS OF DAWN, a time-travel adventure, Oliver provides a brief essay on "The Science of Man", with such subheadings as "How to travel in time" and "What is Anthropology?" He regrets to inform the reader that there are no dinosaurs in this book. A beautiful copy of this uncommon edition. 8'' x 5.5''. Original black cloth with silver-lettered spine. In original pictorial dust jacket by Mike Symes. 208 pages. Light foxing and wear to top edge of text block and upper edge of jacket flaps.
Philadelphia (1952). 8.5 x 5.5" cloth 208pp. front hinge loose covers very lightly stained else good in edge worn creased torn and rubbed dw. FIRST EDITION.
Condition: Very Good. VG/G Jacket in mylar Spine sunned, small chip to middle of spine.
Published by John C. Winston Co., [1952]., Philadelphia:, 1952
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
8vo. xv, [1], 208 pp. Illust. endpapers showing robots, flying saucers and spacesuits, & rockets by Schomburg. Gray publisher's cloth, black lettering (uniform interior toning as usual, offsetting at gutter margin), w/ d.j. vivid cover art of time machine portal in prehistoric 50,000 B.C. by Alex Schomburg (chipping head & foot of spine, edgewear, creasing, some slight scuffing, price-clipped), still VG/G copy. First edition, stated, of this Winston Science Fiction title, and anthropologist Chad Oliver's first work, set against the backdrop of 17-year-old Mark returned to 50,000 B.C. and the battles between Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon peoples.
Published by The John C. Winston Company, Philadelphia, 1952
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. VG-/G; multi-colored spine, white text; jacket has protective mylar cover, significant rubbing, staining, edgewear, open tears at spine head and tail and on back head edge, several small closed tears around edges, price clipped; boards are strong, rubbing around edges, with age spotting throughout entirety of boards; textblock clean; interior pages are discolored from age but otherwise clean; pp 210; FLP Collection. Shelve Case 8. 1285270. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Published by John C. Winston, E-281, 1952
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by The John C. Winston Company, Philadelphia PA. 1958. Xvi, 208 pgs. Decorated endpapers. First Edition/First Printing. Alex Schomburg designed DJ has shelf-wear present (DJ is chipped and worn). Bound in grey cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. A 17-year-old makes an unplanned trip through space and time to Europe 50,000 years ago where Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon man engage in conflict for survival. EB; 208 pages.
Published by John C. Winston, C2a, 1952
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by The John C. Winston Company, Philadelphia PA. 1958. Xvi, 208 pgs. Decorated endpapers. First Edition/First Printing. Alex Schomburg designed DJ has shelf-wear present (DJ is lightly chipped and worn). Bound in grey cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. A 17-year-old makes an unplanned trip through space and time to Europe 50,000 years ago where Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon man engage in conflict for survival. The Winston Science Fiction set comprises 35 science fiction juvenile novels by famous science fiction authors such as Poul Anderson, Arthur C. Clarke, Ben Bova, and Lester del Rey, one anthology, and one non-fiction book Rockets through Space: The Story of Man's Preparations to Explore the Universe by del Rey which details the factual science and technology of rocket flight. The set was published by The John C. Winston Company between 1952 and 1960, then by Holt, Rinehart & Winston until 1961. The dust jackets feature classic science fiction illustrations by artists like Hugo Award winners Ed Emshwiller and Virgil Finlay along with Hugo nominees like Mel Hunter and Alex Schomburg. ; 208 pages.
Published by Gregg Press, Boston, 1979
ISBN 10: 083982520XISBN 13: 9780839825203
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Book Signed
Octavo, cloth. Later edition. Text offset from the text of 1952 The John C. Winston Company edition. Brief signed inscription by Oliver to David Hartwell, coeditor of "The Gregg Press Science Fiction Series" on the half title page. A young man is accidentally sent back in time to interglacial Europe in 50,000 B. C. when Neanderthal men and Cro-Magnon men were in conflict. ". a warmly sympathetic picture of Cro-Magnon civilization." - Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. The author's first book. Part of the classic Winston science fiction series for young readers published between 1952 and 1961. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-832. Angenot and Khouri, "An International Bibliography of Prehistoric Fiction," SFS, VIII (March 1981), 46. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with just a touch of rubbing at spine ends. A nice association copy. (#136499).
Published by John C. Winston Company, Philadelphia, Pa, 1952
Seller: Bailey Bonzo Books, Shelbyville, IN, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, so stated. Gray/beige cloth with brown lettering/design to spine. SIGNED and INSCRIBED, " 17 May 1956 To -----, with best wishes, Chad Oliver". A subsequent owner has whited out that owner's name and written in his own with no affect to the rest of the inscription or signature. This copy is VG in a VG, unclipped ($2.00) DJ illustrated by Alex Schomburg and now protected by Mylar. Exterior is clean with minimal wear to edges, spine ends , or tips. Inside has a triangular faded damp stain ( about 2" wide by 1" tall) throughout, not affecting text. PO armorial BP to 3rd inside page. Otherwise unmarked, moderately toned. Decorative EPs. DJ moderate chipping at spine ends, modest wear at tips, and one 1/2" x 1/4" chip at top back. Otherwise bright and attractive. Oliver's first book. SCARCE SIGNED. The only such copy found on Abe, Biblio, Amazon, or Ebay as of August 2021. Inscribed by Author(s).
Published by Winston, 1952
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. MISTS OF DAWN, Winston, 1952, first edition, pages tanning somewhat as usual, else just about fine in a vg/vg+ dust-wrapper save for some rubbing to the front dust-wrapper panel and shallow chipping to the head of the dust-wrapper spine. The authors first book.
Published by John C. Winston, 1952
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Hardcover first edition is toned along edges of covers and pages and to ffep. Unclipped jacket has light wear to edges and spine ends. Inscribed by Oliver to half-title page. Laid in is a letter from Oliver to a collector. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author.