Space Needle, First Edition (12 results)

First Avon Books paperback edition, first printing # T-175 of this sci-fi novel. Light edgewear. Light creases to the spine. Age toning to the pages. Originally published under the title "Needle" by Doubleday. In Very Good Condition.

Condition: Good. 1st. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Very Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. [1st printing](1963) #YS1383. Cover art is uncredited, A little creasing; corner wear; tanning; stray pen mark on rear. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Fine (-). 1st. (USA) Stated first edition. There was a 4 line owner's inscription to corner of the dedication page which has been obliterated with white-out, no other markings, about Fine otherwise. Wraps with flaps, 183pp, mostly colour photos and illus. Space Needle: The Spirit of Seattle, an illuminating new book about Seattle s iconic needle, was released on the 50th anniversary of the Needle. Extensively researched and written by Knute Skip Berger, it provides a detailed account of the Space Needle s conception, funding, and construction 50 years ago, as well as it s important role in the Century 21 Worlds Fair in 1962 and how it helped define contemporary Seattle in the 50 years after the fair. With over 210 images, both historical and contemporary, book features the best of the classic images of the needle, as well newly discovered images. (2.5 JM 0123 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book has mild edgewear, a slightly slanted spine, ten cents is written on the first page and tanned pages. Avon T-175. Originally published as Needle by Doubleday. First Avon printing. 188 p. Book.

Condition: Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Essentially Fine, With Only Insignificant Traces Of Use To Covers. Internally Fine. Inscribed And Signed On The Title Page. Inscribed by Author(s).

Folio. 6.25 x 15 in. [6 pp (unpaginated).], triptych, with embossed image of Space Needle on front flap, brown & gold lettering within (crease folds, and toning recto & verso), still G- copy of this scarce menu. First edition of this marvelous menu for the "Eye of the Needle" restaurant which opened at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, featured a 14-foot-deep carousel dining floor revolving on a track and wheel system, and was before it's closure for remodeling in 2017 the oldest operating revolving restaurant in the World. The original Eye of the Needle which operated until 1979, before becoming the Emerald Suite (1980-1999), served Washington State fruits such as apples, Dungeness crab legs, Prime Rib, Puget Sound Salmon filet, and had a fair wine selection. Worldcat locates 1 copy (Washington State Library).

Lande, Alan (illustrator). First edition. Five loose photographic post cards 6 x 4 inches. Fine. An unused group of five postal cards of art objects using the Seattle Space Needle as the theme. OCLC locates 2 copies of an exhibition catalogue on the same theme by this artist.

Four pieces. 1st - 12mo. 4 x 9 in. which opens to 18 x 37.75 in. colour map of Seattle on verso, inset view maps of downtown on recto. Self-printed softcovers, futuristic concept art of Space Needle towering over the Science Center, with ALWEG monorail, and pre-Fair concept of the Skyride before it's construction featuring colourful open gondolas (minor edgewear, small tear lower corner front cover, light toning, 1 small closed tear), still VG- copy; 2nd - Three colour-photo postcards, sized 3.5 x 5.5 in., split-back, all detailing trip to Seattle and the World's Fair, from the library of Archibald Angus MacDonald (1892-1977), stepson of famed southern California oil man William F. Byrne, as well as oil company, and drilling equipment company owner and manager of MacDonald & Burns Oil Producers, to whom they are addressed. First edition, thus, of this nicely illustrated Seattle street map for the Century 21 Seattle World's Fair in 1962, from Standard Oil of California. The three postcards from "Ada" describe the trip, beginning with "May get out to see the Fair Next Week;" followed by Aug. 26, 1962 describing "We expect to go to the Fair tomorrow." Next postcard she writes that she "certainly have enjoyed my trip here, and stay too short." Very nice juxtaposition on one of the cards with early 1950's Buick featuring the tooth grille below the futuristic ALWEG monorail cruising past, and Space Needle in the distance.

Tall 4to. 5 x 12.25 in. [8 pp (unpaginated).], including 2 double-sided birds-eye panoramic colour plates of Seattle & environs sized 23.5 x 12.25 in., numerous colour text illustrations. Colour illustrated softcovers, cover art recto & verso by Robert Morgan (slight shelfwear, rubbing), still NF copy. First edition of this scarce Century 21 Seattle World's Fair souvenir in 1962, including birds-eye panoramic map views of Seattle as seen from the iconic Space Needle by local Seattle Commercial artist, Robert Morgan. Reference photos were shot from a helicopter by Hal Porter, birds-eye mapping solutions for the folding panoramas were calculated by Dr. Willis Heath, and John Campbell, and lithographs executed by Van Dyke & Brant Litho Plate Co. The discreet numbers are keyed to the text guide, and provide a striking visual snapshot of a Seattle radically changed 60 years later. Worldcat locates 1 physical copy (Hagley), several others listed are either computer files, or jpeg's.