Experiment Perilous: First Edition (16 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Canadian paperback edition, second printing # 278 of this stand-alone novel by Carpenter. Made into the 1944 movie "Experiment Perilous" starring Hedy Lemarr and George Brent. Light edgewear. Light creases to the spine and cover. Light rubbing to the cover. Age toning to the cover and pages. In Very Good Condition.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. #278. First Printing Dec. 237pp. Light wear. Photos on request. Size: Mass Market.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Pyramid #R-961 (A Green Door Mystery). 1st printing thus. Some shelfwear, corners bumped, 2 small ink notations ffep. Very good.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. ----------paperback. Green Door Mystery Series. Spine crease, edgewear to front cover bottom, a VG copy.

Paperback. first PB. 278, very good , creases mystery novel, paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Presentation copy. Good HC, no DJ. Aqua blue cloth over baords, black letters. Lightly scuffed covers; somewhat mottled, unevenly faded covers and spine; few small stains on back cover; tighlty bound; owner signed name 'Henry [Steele] Commager' (noted author and historian - NYU, Columbia & Amherst) in pencil on front free end paper; stamped on copyright page 'Presentation Copy'; clean interior. 12mo, 308 pp. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Fsir. First Edition. Blue hard boards, tips are sharp and gold gilt print on spine in as new condition. Inside front cover a date and small scribble inside back cover, light aging throughout, then a clean and tight interior, 307pp. DJ with numerous tears and bumps along the top and bottom, Minor aging, just fair Jacket is complete and not clipped, still protecting the book. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book Club.…

Paperback. Condition: Good- Very Good. 1st Printing. Solid with a light spine roll and there ars small creases on the covers.

Paperback. first PB. 278, very good -fine, , reading crease mystery novel, paperback.

Paperback. first PB. 278, almost near fine, mystery novel, paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. New book, never read. Pages clean and crisp, spine unbroken. 0424B.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 248pp. Book produced in complete conformity with war economy standards (see BookAddiction blog post on war economy standards in book production). Red cloth boards (a little marked and rubbed at edges). Lending sheet on front free endpaper, no other library markings. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight, barring a few minor marks on pages. In its original, vintage, dust jacket( just a little rubbed at edges, tending to fray at spine tips, spine crease and unnecessary tape reinforcement on reverse). Dust jacket now protected in archival quality mylar wrapper which prolongs the life of the paper, keeps it clean and protects it from damage. It is not adhered to the book or to the dust jacket. "Insidious awful fear is the undertone to life in a New York mansion where a doctor finds the key to a delicately horrible psychological mystery". 12mo.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine copy. 34 pp. Pages clean and unmarked. Stapled booklet. Mustard coloured wraps. Reprints of essays on the genre by Bradley, Spinrad and Bester.

Paperback. very good chapbook, card covers, 34pp, some sunning of the covers 1st printing. Includes "Experiment Perilous: The Art and Science of Anguish in Science Fiction" by Marion Zimmer Bradley; "The Bug Jack Barron Papers" by Norman Spinrad; "Writing and "The Demolished Man" by Alfred Bester.

Hardback. Condition: VG-. G++ DW. 1st Edition. Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in good double plus condition with noticeable signs of wear and/or age.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo. Original fawn cloth, spine lettered in white. Lean to spine, pushing to spine ends, spine ends and bottom edges rubbed. Edges toned. Occasional faint marks, else, clean and tight. In the original illustrated dust jacket by "R.M.": spine darkened, wear and creasing to spine ends, a few fox spots. Very good/ very good A tidy copy of the first British edition of Carpenter's thrilling first novel, featuring Dr Huntingdon Bailey, a "successful, Shakespeare-quoting scientist" who finds himself in "a mortal struggle with a suave and accomplished fiend"; the American's novel was a New York Times Bestseller in 1943 and was successfully adapted for the screen the following year by Warren Duff for RKO, directed by Jacques Tourneur. …