Return Tharn by Howard Browne, Signed (9 results)

Condition: Very Good -. Providence: The Grandon Company, 1956. First Edition, in first state binding. Octavo (21cm); publisher's green cloth with darker green spine and gilt lettering; 253pp. Missing jacket. Boards rubbed along bottom edge and corners; spine bumped along joints and ends. Superficial dampstaining to top edge of textblock near spine. Pastedowns toned. A couple light waterspots to pp 124-5, else interior unmarked. Opens easily between gatherings but binding is secure. Signed by the author "Best wishes" without dedication on front free endpaper. ISFDB cites Chalker and Owings to note that "150 of the copies were lost to flood damage and nearly half of the remaining 350 copies show some water damage.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very Good hardcover, no DJ. SIGNED by Browne on end paper. Pages are clean, crisp and unmarked. Fore-edge shows minor spots of foxing. Covers show light edge wear and head and foot of spine are frayed/bumped.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day! Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Original price $2.00, cover art by Henry M. Eichner; Only 350 copies issued, as many were destroyed in a flood. Two-tone green boards with gilt spine lettering. A trace of wear on the heal of the spine and a corner of the rear paste down missing. Inscribed "Best wishes, Howard Browne" on the front free endpaper. Available thus from the publisher. Additionally signed (later) by publisher Donald M. Grant on the title page. The jacket has a hint of corner wear and is a bit spine-darkened, else fine. Signed by Author(s).

Octavo, boards. Inscribed and signed by Browne on the front free end paper. Sequel to Warrior of the Dawn. First published in Amazing Stories October - December 1948. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket with rubbing to front flap fold, small chip at lower front panel and some toning to the spine panel. (31265) First edition. First binding of two-part green boards with gold stamping on spine panel.

Condition: VG+/VG+. 253, [1 (blank)] pp. 8vo. Dark green cloth spine with light green boards. Dust jacket 1st edition. SIGNED by the author on the ffep.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Providence: The Grandon Company Publishers 1956. First Edition. Hardcover First binding [two-tone green boards with gold gilt spine lettering]. Published by Donald M. Grant. This copy has been inscribed "Best Wishes" and signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Additionally, this copy has been signed "Donald M. Grant" by the publisher on the title page. Tuck The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, page 69 "Sequel to Warrior of the Dawn---further prehistoric adventures" . Reginald 01997. Very Good copy with spine head lightly bumped, light shelf wear in toned Dust Wrapper with light rubbing. Signed by Author and Publisher LR2/5E.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. SIGNED with inscription to ffep.In A Custom Graphic Slipcase.253pp. Orig. green paper boards. Spine cocked, bruised at head, lightly rubbed to ends. Foxing to edges of text block. Dust jacket is age toned with some short tears and light bumping to edges, pencil notation to front flap. The fantastic adventures of Tharn, the fabulous "Warrior of the Dawn," are once again available in a second book from the pen of popular Howard Browne. Tharn's existence dates back to 1943, when "Warrior of the Dawn," the first novel of the series appeared as a long book. This sequel, complete in itself, takes up the thread of excitement in no less of a swashbuckling manner. Tharn is a Cro-Magnon - a true man of the dawn age, dating back to the morning of time on this planet. His adventures are decidedly fantastic, leading him through the savage jungle to the barbaric kingdom of Ammad, majestic and intriguing in all its forgotten might. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. First edition. first printing. Limited to 350 copies. Inscribed in blind by Browne on the front free endpaper, "Best wishes, Howard Brown." "A flood caused damage to many of the Grandon books stored in a garage in the spring of 1958, with Tharn bearing the brunt. 150 were too damaged to sell and were discarded; of the 350 remaining, almost half show some water damage" Chalker; The Science-Fantasy Publishers, pg 211. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. Jacket illustrated by Henry M. Eichner. An as new copy showing no indication of water damge. Inscribed by Author(s). Book.

First Edition. RETURN OF THARN, Grandon, 1956, first edition, (first issue binding) vg+/near fine in vg+ dust-wrapper with some tanning to the rear dust-wrapper panel. Signed by the author.