Painter Thomas Alexander Laing (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First printing with publishers stylized logo on copyright page. Ex-library copy with bookplate, stamps, pocket remnant to rear endpaper. A fair reading copy. Frontispiece by Lynd Ward.

vii, 309 pp. Frontispiece by Lynd Ward. 8vo, publisher's cloth stamped in white, in dust jacket. First edition. Some chipping to the white stamping on the cloth; otherwise a fine copy in a jacket with some light edgewear, dust-soiling to the rear panel, and fading to the spine. From the library of Donald Wandrei, with book label laid in.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket. No dust jacket. Boards in good condition. Name inside front cover. Slight foxing to endpapers and prelims. Binding sound. First Edition Thus.

First edition. 12mo. [vii], 309 pp. Frontispiece by Lynd Ward. Cloth binding, no jacket, else good condition. (95775). Blue frontispiece.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Lynn Ward - frontispeice (illustrator). First Edition. vii + 309 pp. frontis, explanation (preface); Binding tight and square, pages clean and unmarked, paper well-preserved. 5.5" x 8.1" black cloth boards, white embossed background with dark letters, white letters on black on spine. Very light wear to exterior top and bottom spine. Binding tight and square, pages clean, paper well-preserved. DJ clipped, chipped at bottom spine, worn at top spine. Handles nicely in acetate protector. Size: Octavo. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Lynd Ward (illustrator). First Edition. Hinge cracked but book tight; little title color chipping. And rare! Merits bindery repair, which would be modestly priced for hinge tightening. Ward color frontispiece. Binding is cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, hardcover in black cloth with white titling, Bleiler title with a frontispiece by Lynd Ward, has a light lean to the binding, slight bumps to spine ends and cover corners with cloth starting to wear through at corners, faint rubbing to covers with some flaking to lettering at end of title on front and spine, and a previous owner's plate to front pastedown, otherwise a solid Good+ copy in a Good dust jacket, which has bumps with short chips and tears to spine ends and corners, tape repairs to exterior of corners, spine ends and along edges and hinges, sunning with a couple cross tears to spine, and light rubbing to covers.

1st ed. 1st UK edition - 1st published in USA as 'The motives of Nicholas Holtz'. Some foxing; binding tight; blue pebbled cloth a little faded on spine and at edge of front board Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket) Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket).

First edition. 12mo. [vii], 309 pp. Frontispiece by Lynd Ward. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good copy. (89954). Pink dustwrapper and frontispiece.

Lynd Ward (illustrator). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 309. Illustrated by Lynd Ward. VG in dj (torn along the hinge, lacking 1/3 of the spine). Horror and Mystery novel of a runaway virus.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First Edition. Octavo. Illustrated dust jacket and frontispiece by Lynd Ward, price unclipped, green variant dust jacket (also noted in blue and purple). Dystopian fantasy. Very good dust jakcet, minor chipping to spine ends, light wear to edges, rear panel darkened, very good to near fine overall, pages slightly agetoned.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Octavo. vii, 309pp. Frontispiece and jacket illustration by Ward introduce this bioterror thriller. Bound in black cloth over boards stamped in white. Minimal bumping, else fine in near fine dust wrapper. Top edge yellow.

Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First Edition. -- Condition: Fine, with the exception of small hand-written 'No1323' to front pastedown, in near fine dust jacket, minor wear to tail of spine, with small unnecessary colour touch-up to spine ends and corners of front panel. -- Details: A sharp and bright first edition, rather scarce in such nice condition. With frontispiece and dust jacket illustrated by Lynd Ward. "'The Ironville Virus', a bacterium capable of reproduction at a terrific rate, which to one man's grief, proves to be the carrier of a deadly plague and which, as far as anyone knows, has no antivirus . . " To take advantage of Lynd Ward's illustrations, the first edition was issued in a variety of coloured dust jacket which matched the colour of the frontispiece, known examples exist in light blue, light green, burgundy, and red as in this copy. -- Octavo (book size 20.6x14.7cm), pp. vii [1] 309 [3]. In publisher's smooth black cloth, spine lettered and ruled in white, front panel with title blocked on a white background and lettering in white, top edge tinted yellow, others untrimmed. Dust jacket with publisher's decorative trim to all corners, and priced 'Net, $2.00' to upper corner of front flap. Dust jacket with small amount of unnecessary colour touch-up to spine ends and corners of front panel. --.

Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vii [viii] [1-2] 3-309 [310-312: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], inserted frontispiece with illustration by Lynd Ward, original black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in white, top edge stained yellow, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough trimmed. First edition. "Science fiction thriller revolving round a newly created plague bacterium against which there appears to be no antidote." - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, pp. 171-72. "Persuasively authentic in its use of biological data, it is a well told story of the creation of artificial life in the form of a deadly virus, and of the dangers that beset the man who investigates the ensuing deaths." - Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 686. Bleiler (1978), p. 153. Reginald 08539. Hubin (1994), p. 624. A bright, clean, nearly fine copy in very good pictorial dust jacket (designed by Lynd Ward) with mild wear at edges and small shallow chips from the upper spine end. A very attractive copy. (#171896).