Bruce Gaffron (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Large 8v0, Softcovers. Illustrations throughout. Original card covers. Some very light edge ware to covers, Pages lightly browned. Overall a very good copy. Extra postage may apply for overseas orders. All books are posted in a sturdy book box.

Hardcover. Condition: Good to Worn. No Jacket. Bruce Gaffron; Bryan De Grineau, Robert Johnston and Others (illustrator). Old Rattletrap; Charles or Chuck; Simmy's Flying Saucer; Secret Weapon; Desert Quest; Stooge Trip; The Dusty Badge; The Reef; The Clue of the Glass Stopper; There She Blows!; The Rules of the Game; To the Moon; Space Suit; Blaze Brent-Thunderbird; The Three Mates of Kyack The Falcon; Cricket is my Game.

Hardcover. Condition: Good to Worn. No Jacket. Bruce Gaffron; Len Fullerton, David Morrow and Others (illustrator). Win or Bust; Last Wicket Stand; The Big Merou; Carlson and the Golden Star; Opal Cavern; Young Willoughby's Piece of Resistance; With a Bull by the Tail; A Visit to the Cinema; Life on other Worlds; The Heat Barrier; On Polar Exploraton; The Red Stranger; Emergency in Space; Hunters of the Mountains; Halcon, Lord of Crater-Land; The Radio Telescope.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. North, T.E.; Branton, R.A.; Brand, Nat; Gaffron, Bruce (illustrator). Ex-library hardcover with printed boards, no dust jacket, in good condition. Boards are scuffed and marked, with some surface colour loss. Edges, corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed, with chips at the corners. Page block is tanned and blemished. Stamp on the front pastedown and FEP. Some of the pages are torn at the spine foot and lower page edges. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

Bruce Gaffron (illustrator). Scarce wartime first edition of Dawn of the Space Age by Harry Harper, published by Sampson Low and produced to full War Economy Standard during the final years of World War II. Harper, one of the earliest aviation correspondents and a member of the British Interplanetary Society, outlines the scientific possibilities of spaceflight long before the launch of Sputnik. This is a non-technical, BIS-approved presentation of rockets, manned space-vessels, and interplanetary travel to the Moon, Mars, and Venus. The red cloth boards are clean and bright, and the binding remains tight. The original dust jacket shows rubbing, scratches, and chips along the edges but remains complete and visually striking with its early rocket illustration by Bruce Gaffron. A rare surviving copy of an important pre-space-race futurist work. Author: Harry Harper Publisher: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd., London Year: ca. 1944-45 (War Economy Standard printing) Special attributes: War Economy Edition, original dust jacket, early British Interplanetary Society endorsement Topic: Space exploration, early rocketry, futurism, aviation history Subject: Interplanetary travel, rocket science, history of flight, British Interplanetary Society Keywords: early space age, wartime printing, Sampson Low, BIS, futurist science, vintage spaceflight, rocket history Condition: Very good minus. Clean red cloth, tight binding, pages toned but clean. Dust jacket shows rubbing, edge wear, small chips, and scratches but remains complete.