Published by William Kimber, 1952
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
First Edition
Condition: Fair. 1952. First Edition. 350 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Heavier tanning to free endpapers and pastedowns. Thumb-marking present. Visible creasing to gutter. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Heavy sunning to spine and edges. Black marks to boards. Textblock is shaky.
Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good+ to Near Fine. No. 33. Cover shows Alan Hynd's "Public Enemies". Includes "Paperback Talk"; "The Golden Era of Gold Medal Books" by George Tuttle; "An Interview with Knox Burger" by Royce H. Allen; "Gold Medal at the Movies" by George Tuttle; "A Checklist of Gold Medal Pseudonyms" by Victor Berch; "Gold Medal Not in the Guides and Later Gold Medal Books" by Peter Chapman; "Gold Medal of Signet?" by Gary Lovisi; "Belarski Times Two" by Tony Davis; "Australian Lion Books" by Graeme Flanagan; "The Collier's Question" by James A. Corrick. Light wear.
Published by William Kimber, 1952
Seller: Simon and Kathy, Pontypridd, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Badly stained boards and foxing throughout - this is a reading copy only - immediate despatch from the uk 6 days a week please note surface mail overseas unless airnmai Size: 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall 0.0.
Published by Hearst Corporation., New York, NY, USA., 1948
Seller: Comic World, Steinbach, MB, Canada
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good to Fine. Coby Whitmore Painted Cover. (illustrator). COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE (February 1948; Volume-124 #2); Painted Cover of (186 Pages including Covers); >>> weight = 360 grams. CONTENTS; BLUE RIBBON STORY - "Out of the Past" by Elick Moll; COMPLETE SHORT NOVEL - "Dealers in Illusion" by Hugh Pentecost & Blake Cabot; SERIAL - "Aphrodite in Pine Sprigs" (Part II) by Elizabeth Janeway; NOVELETTES - (1) "Of Good and Evil" by George Bradshaw; (2) "The Ghost of Cherry Street" (LIDA Story) by Czenzi Ormonde; SEVEN SHORT STORIES - (1) "Pickup" by John D. MacDonald; (2) "The World and Arthur Royal" by Alec Rackowe; (3) "The Woods-devil" by Paul Annixter; (4) "The Wooing of Hester Warren" by Walter Burger; (5) "Home is the Hero" by Knox Burger; (6) "Sixteen" by Gordon Malherbe Hillman; (7) "Wrong Girl" by William E. Barrett; EIGHT ARTICLES - (1) "Cosmopolitan's Movie Citations" by Louella O. Parsons; (2) "Why I Don't Want to go to Hollywood" by James Mason; (3) "We Don't Want War Again" by Adela Rogers St. Johns; (4) "Firemen Must be Fast on Their Feet" by Evan Wylie; (5) "Do You Love Someone LIke This?" by Murray Teigh Bloom; (6) "Stephens College" by Ralph G. Martin; (7) "How Shall We Tell Our Young People the Truth About Sex?" by Howard Whitman; *** What's wrong with Youthfullness by PHILIP WYLIE; (8) INTERVIEW with bestselling author Frances Parkingson Keyes Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall TRUE FIRST Edition MAGAZINE Format Thus. Book.
Published by Hearst Corporation., New York, NY, USA., 1948
Seller: Comic World, Steinbach, MB, Canada
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Coby Whitmore Painted Cover. (illustrator). COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE (February 1948; Volume-124 #2); Painted Cover of (186 Pages including Covers); >>> weight = 360 grams. CONTENTS; BLUE RIBBON STORY - "Out of the Past" by Elick Moll; COMPLETE SHORT NOVEL - "Dealers in Illusion" by Hugh Pentecost & Blake Cabot; SERIAL - "Aphrodite in Pine Sprigs" (Part II) by Elizabeth Janeway; NOVELETTES - (1) "Of Good and Evil" by George Bradshaw; (2) "The Ghost of Cherry Street" (LIDA Story) by Czenzi Ormonde; SEVEN SHORT STORIES - (1) "Pickup" by John D. MacDonald; (2) "The World and Arthur Royal" by Alec Rackowe; (3) "The Woods-devil" by Paul Annixter; (4) "The Wooing of Hester Warren" by Walter Burger; (5) "Home is the Hero" by Knox Burger; (6) "Sixteen" by Gordon Malherbe Hillman; (7) "Wrong Girl" by William E. Barrett; EIGHT ARTICLES - (1) "Cosmopolitan's Movie Citations" by Louella O. Parsons; (2) "Why I Don't Want to go to Hollywood" by James Mason; (3) "We Don't Want War Again" by Adela Rogers St. Johns; (4) "Firemen Must be Fast on Their Feet" by Evan Wylie; (5) "Do You Love Someone LIke This?" by Murray Teigh Bloom; (6) "Stephens College" by Ralph G. Martin; (7) "How Shall We Tell Our Young People the Truth About Sex?" by Howard Whitman; *** What's wrong with Youthfullness by PHILIP WYLIE; (8) INTERVIEW with bestselling author Frances Parkingson Keyes Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall TRUE FIRST Edition MAGAZINE Format Thus. Book.
Published by Crowell-Collier, USA, 1946
First Edition
Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Whitcomb, Jon (cover); Sawyers, Martha; Peskin-Pix, David; Bischoff, H.E.; Thompson, Kenneth; Rose, Carl; Hurst, Oliver; Fons-Iannelli; Prince, Meade; Vern-Pix, Ike; Lasalle, Charles; Peskin, Hy; Sharland-Black Star; Pike, John (illustrator). First Edition. 114 pages. Fiction: The Vultures; That Time, That Sorrow; The Wooing of Cruller McCabe; Off the Reservation; Storm Before Daybreak; The Star Lake Murder; Divide & Conquer. Articles: Motherhood without Misery - painless childbirth technique from England; Old Man River's Children - the poor who live along the Mississippi near Memphis; The Handwriting on the Ice - blitzkrieg by air from the arctic; Racket on Wheels - black market used cars; Ringtail on the Run - coon-hunting by moonlight; Preacher in Song - Joshua (Josh) White; Quarterback Glenn Dobbs of the Dodgers; Blondie's Gold Mine - the saga of the cartoon Bumstead family. Ads include: Studebaker (color photo ad inside front cover); Clicquot Club; Philco radio-phonographs - featuring photo of Bing Crosby; Lucky Strike cigarettes; Nice color two-page Firestone ad features dozens of gifts; Camel cigarettes (More doctors smoke Camels.); Hudson cars; Gillette ad features caricature of footballer Dewitt "Tex" Coulter; Hudson cars (beautiful color ad); Movie ad for "The Best Years of Our Lives"; Good Year (centerfold); Samson card tables; Garod Radios; Champ Hats; Mercury cars; Budweiser beer; Fortune shoes; Waterman's pens; Waltham watches; Mallory Hats; Parker pens; Timely clothes; Old Spice; Manhattan sport shirts; Three Feathers Whiskey (inside back cover); Chesterfield cigarettes (back cover). Unmarked. Moderate wear. Cover holding by one staple. A nice vintage copy.