Akkad Pseudoman (11 results)
More imagesPublished by Scientific Publishing Co., Princeton, NJ 1937
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: biblioboy, North Providence, RI, U.S.A.biblioboy
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US$ 15.00
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Scientific Publishing Co. 1937 1st ed. 283pp. Very good with soiling and ring stain to covers. Previous owner name and date to front free endpaper. Light toning to page edges and margins. Lacking the jacket. clph.
Published by Scientific Publishing Company, U.S.A 1937
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Aucott & Thomas, Ibstock, , United KingdomAucott & Thomas
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First American Edition. Clean hardback tightly bound in brown cloth with black titles, no inscriptions. xvi + 284 pages, colour frontispiece, 24 illustrations on plates, 4 text illustrations.
More imagesPublished by Princeton, New Jersey: Scientific Publishing Company 1937
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Old Books O'Mac, Prescott, AZ, U.S.A.Old Books O'Mac
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Near fine
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, stated. Hardcover. Condition: Very good/near fine. Light brown buckram cloth, lettered in black to the spine. Full color frontispiece. Illustrated.Sharp corners; tight binding. Pages age toned; 1940 newspaper clipping pasted to front paste down with ink annotation. Add…itional laid in 1945 newspaper clipping between front paste down and ffep with subsequent stain. Dust jacket blurb pasted neatly to ffep. Reader annotations pages 90 and 101, otherwise clean and unmarked. pp+ 283 pages 9.25"x6.25"w. (see images) ".While the narrative is pure fiction.All scientific material has been worked out in considerable detail, and is believed to be entirely consonant with current proved facts and well tested technical knowledge.".
Published by Scientific Publishing Co.: Princeton, NJ 1937
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.John K King Used & Rare Books
Contact seller4-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illus. including color frontis; photos, 9.5 x 6", tan cloth, 280pp + pp, covers rubbed and unevenly toned, extremities bumped, rear inner hinge cracking, pp toned (endpapers unevenly so), foredge of textblock soiled, in a very worn, spine-torn/creased, browned and soiled dustjacket. FIRST EDITION…. Sci-Fi novel disguised as a scientific autobiography from the future. Pseudoman takes off for his trip around the moon on July 28, 1961.
Published by Scientific Publishing, Princeton, NJ, USA 1937
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Stuart W. Wells III, Norwalk, CT, U.S.A.Stuart W. Wells III
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Pseudonym of E. F. Northrup. Color frontispiece by Peter Keenan. Many photos and drawings. Book is almost fine. Dustjacket has tears, chips and is dusty. It has been reinforced on the inside by modern tape.
Published by Princeton, N.J. Scientific Publish. Co. 1937. 1937
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A.
Contact seller1-star sellerVery good. Important novel based on space travel by Edwin F. Northrop. 1st Ed. Binding is Cloth.
Published by Scientific Publishing Company, Princeton, New Jersey 1937
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB
Contact seller4-star sellerOctavo, pp. [i-vii] viii [ix-xvi] [1] 2-280 [281-283] [284-288: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], fifteen inserted plates including color frontispiece, diagrams in text, original tan cloth, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. A very technical fictional account of the invention of a spacecraft and circumnavigati…on of the Moon by the inventor of the Ajax-Northrup high-frequency induction furnace. The experiments begin in 1945 and the flight occurs in 1961. Interesting illustrations. "The book, a semi-fictional autobiography, contains a great deal about the author's experiments with solenoid guns, including photographs, and a résumé of the theory of space travel which Dr. Northrup wanted to accomplish by means of rockets initially accelerated in large solenoid guns" (Ley). Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-45. Bailey, Pilgrims Through Space and Time, pp. 124-25. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 179. Bleiler (1978), p. 162. Reginald 11927. Ciancone 187. Ley, Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel, revised edition, 1957, p. 517. A bright, very good copy in very good pictorial dust jacket with chip from upper spine end, ink stains at lower edge of spine panel, and clipped price. A fairly nice example of a striking jacket (which reproduces the color frontispiece on the front panel) seldom found in superior condition. (#158533).
Published by Scientific Publishing Company, Princeton, New Jersey 1937
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Illustrated First Edition. Octavo. Original tan cloth with black lettering to spine. Imaginative autobiography of the life, inventions, and reflections of a scientist living from 1920 to 2000 A.D. Written by Edwin Fitch Northrup, an electrothermic engineer born in Syracuse, NY, under… the pseudonym Dr. Akkad Pseudoman. Color frontispiece. Very good, in good dustjacket with minimal loss but light creasing and wear along edges; prior owner's pencil signature and information on front free endpaper.
Published by scientific publishing 1937
- First Edition
Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, webster, NY, U.S.A.GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS
Contact seller5-star sellerfirst edition. very good - fine hardcover very good jacket signed, dated, some jacket chips.
Published by Scientific Publishing Company, Princeton, New Jersey 1937
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB
Contact seller4-star sellerOctavo, pp. [i-vii] viii [ix-xvi] [1] 2-280 [281-283] [284-288: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], fifteen inserted plates including color frontispiece, diagrams in text, original tan cloth, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. A very technical fictional account of the invention of a spacecraft and circumnavigati…on of the Moon by the inventor of the Ajax-Northrup high-frequency induction furnace. The experiments begin in 1945 and the flight occurs in 1961. Interesting illustrations. "The book, a semi-fictional autobiography, contains a great deal about the author's experiments with solenoid guns, including photographs, and a résumé of the theory of space travel which Dr. Northrup wanted to accomplish by means of rockets initially accelerated in large solenoid guns" (Ley). Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-45. Bailey, Pilgrims Through Space and Time, pp. 124-25. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 179. Bleiler (1978), p. 162. Reginald 11927. Ciancone 187. Ley, Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel, revised edition, 1957, p. 517. Several short penciled marginalia in the text, else a fine copy in very good pictorial dust jacket with light wear and several short closed tears at edges, tiny chip from upper right corner of front panel, and some dust soiling to spine and rear panels. A nice example of a striking jacket (which reproduces the color frontispiece on the front panel) seldom found in superior condition. (#146493).
More imagesPublished by Scientific Publishing Company, New Jersey 1937
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United KingdomRooke Books PBFA
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
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Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. An illustrated science fiction novel by American inventor Edwin Fitch Northrup, the first edition. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.An intriguing sci-fi novel, comprising of the memoirs of 'Kad' Pseudoman, wh…o discovers a gold mine and comes into great profit, going on to inventing speculator machines for transportation, eventually launching a spaceship to circumnavigate the moon.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, fourteen plates, and in-text illustrations.Collated, complete.By Edwin Fitch Northrup under the pseudonym Akkad Pseudoman.Two reviews of this work to the front paste down, and one to the recto of the front endpaper. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. A few light marks to the boards. Two newspaper clippings tipped in to the front paste down, and one to the recto of the front endpaper. Dust wrapper with worn and heavily chipped protective plastic adhered. Minor edge wear and handling marks to the wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). book.
