Avenging Ray by Seamark (20 results)

Condition: Good. 1952. Reprint. 191 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Later Printing. London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited . 1930. Later Printing. Hardcover Orange cloth with black lettering, 314 pages plus 4 pages of ads. Locke [A Spectrum of Fantasy page 191 "Science fiction mystery thriller revolving around a disintegration ray"]. Bleiler [1978 Checklist page 177]. Reginald 13296. Hubin [1984 Crime Fiction, page 359].Foxing to endpapers, owner's name and date [in pencil] to the front free endpaper, edge wear, spine and corners lightly bumped. Dust soiling to page edges, slightly spine cocked. Soiling to covers lacking the jacket. clph.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First Paperback Edition. First UK paperback edition. 2/- Yellow jacket. Originally published in hard covers by Hodder in 1930. Small piece missing from the top right corner of the front cover. Two heavy vertical creases down the length of the back cover. Small tear at the base of the spine but otherwise only light surface and edge wear to the covers. Page edges browned with light wear to the corners. Brown spotting to the insides of the covers and the pages are a little browned but otherwise unmarked. First printing. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.

VERY GOOD condition.

VERY GOOD condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Hodder & Stoughton No. C106. Early science fiction title from Austin Small writing as Seamark. Pages are lightly toned by clean without creases, marks, stains or wrinkles. There is no reading crease in the spine and the book does not lean. Outer covers and spine are very clean. There are a couple of very light creases in the front cover and a few light creases in the back cover. Slight wear to edges of covers and spine. (Note: Photos may show a flash reflection.) PayPal always welcome. We pack all our books with care and ship in cardboard boxes. Shipment outside of the United States may require extra funds. Additional photos emailed upon request.

Soft Cover. Condition: Fair. Reprint. Hodder & Stoughton yellow vintage jacket paperback. In fair to poor condition. A good reading copy.

Octavo, pp. [1-7] 8-314 [315-320: ads], original blue cloth, front panel stamped in black and ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in black. First edition, first printing. Science fiction thriller about a scientist who intends to destroy the world with a disintegration ray. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 700. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 191. Bleiler (1978), p. 181. Reginald 13296. Slight spine lean, a tight, clean, very good copy. (#95687).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Yellow Jacket. Very tidy, foxing in the edges. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Fair reading copy only.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. Bleiler title, hardcover in yellow-orange cloth, the publication date/edition are not listed, the book has a slight lean to the binding, shallow bowing to the covers, light bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, sun toning to the spine, foxing to the end pages with age toning to the page edges, some soiling to the edges of the text block, faint rubbing with a touch of smudging to the covers, and a previous owner's name to the first free end page, otherwise a solid, tight Good+ copy.

Reprint. Red cloth faded with small stains and marks. Spine slightly browned as well, with slight creases. Corners bumped. Endpapers and page edges slightly browned, but generally bright and tidy internally. Binding tight. Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Very light foxing to the endpapers and foredge, else a fine copy lacking the dustwrapper. *Bleiler Checklist* title.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Seamark. The avenging ray. Hodder and Stoughton . No publishing info but think 1930's reprint. Good jacket priced 3/6 net. Essentially complete but worn in general. Closed edge tears and rubbing. Good boards with some staining and rubbing. Vg contents with neat pencil description of the book and previous price of £50. Quite a rare sci fi title with period jacket.

8vo. pp 314. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered black on spine and front cover. No date, [1930]. Neat name on rear pastedown with slight foxing to endpapers, otherwise sound, very good.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO60001931: sans date. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 128 pages. 1920s-1930s. Cover in colour. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 5th or later Edition. This is the 8th reprint of this book and is in excellent condition. The colourfully illustrated DJ is in a protective covering and only the slightest edge wear to the spine. The red hardcover has an embossed design to the front board and black lettering to the spine.Slight edge wear but consistent with age. Internally in excellent condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 4th Edition. 314 pages with dustwrapper, wrapper complete and in protective loose archival clear cover, 4th edition with 2/- price on spine, adverts on the wrapper flaps, two holes in wrapper on back, but spine and cover only minor rubbing top and bottom edges, pages clean and hardly handled, boards near fine. Very Good+. *A World destroyer, mad scientist and love, a pitiless ray and trails and secrets. My goodness, it's an all round spiffing tale of intrigues and sci-fi machinery. Rare too.

First American Edition, preceded by the First UK Edition published by Hodder and Stoughton the same year. Published posthumously, after the author's death by suicide in 1929. A couple corners lightly bumped, front hinge slightly tender, overall Very Good plus in a Very Good plus, price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket spine and rear panel moderately toned, with some rubbing to the extremities. Lacking the rare wraparound band.