Vicarion by Hunting Gardner (27 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: without dust jacket. First Edition. Octavo, 7 1/2" tall, 397 pages, blue cloth. A Bleiler fantasy title. A good, clean hardcover first American edition with light shelf wear and rubbing to all the corners, hinges and binding solid , paper clean and lightly yellowed, with an inscription on the front free end paper. Without dust jacket.

hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. first edition book, minimal amount of wear along the edges of the cover of the book (creasing).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. In blue cloth. Light rubbing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. 396 pp., Blue Hardback, VG & Crisp in badly torn but colorful DJ in Protective Plastic wrapper, 1st ed.

Blue Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good to VG + DJ. First Edition. First Edition 1926 Issue, Date On Title Page, This Example Immaculate, Tight And Solid And Just Slightly Used, With Partly Cracked Rear Hinge, In An Attractive Clean Dj With A Few Small To Tiny Chips At Ends [Under 1/4"] And A Slightly Age-Darkened Spine Panel.

good, 25% of cover is gone, rest complete jacket only, NO BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good hardcover. Straight secure spine with tight hinges and clean interior. Pages are toned due to age.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Early Reprint. Strange novel about an invention that allows people to see into the past. This copy is in nice shape overall, but the jacket is in two pieces and lacks several small pieces. It's protected by a jacket protector to prevent further damage. A good item for those interested in early SF, uncommon in jacket.

Hardcover. hardcover. near fine book in a very good dust jacket , some corner and edge chips, darker spine.

Cloth. Condition: G/G. No illustrations (illustrator). Kansas City, MO: Unity Press. G/G. 1927. Cloth. Ref - Bleiler, pp 105 . 8vo., 397 pp., dj: slightly torn & yellowed, now plastic covered; bk: good binding, a few worn hinges .

No illustrations (illustrator). Kansas City, MO: Unity Press. Very good condition-DJ scuffed/Dust Jacket. 1927. Ref Bleiler pp 105 . 8vo., 397 pp. . Very good condition-DJ scuffed/Dust Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. uncredited (illustrator). 2nd Edition. 2nd expanded edition of the first version of a year earlier 1926. Book is in Near Fine condition while the dust jacket (in a protector) is in Good Plus condition with some loss to extremities and some moisture marks on verso. ".The Vicarion (1926; exp 1927) features the Vicarion, a Time Viewer directed toward the past, which plays back the permanent record of what has been. As a consequence, murders can be solved, politics cleaned up and the true events of history understood at last." - John Clute, 3rd Edition of the SF Encyclopedia/Internet. Interesting wraparound dust jacket cover.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American. Unity Press, Kansas City, MO, 1927. Hardcover First US Edition with DJ, 397 pp. Early, unique, suspenseful SF thriller/ romance. Book covers are beautiful dark blue with black print - looks new. The red black paper DJ is somewhat frayed , mostly at top and bottom of spine. Still very good for a book of this age. Text is tight and seems unread. Previous owner's name stamp on FFEP.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. Beautifully clean hardcover book in clean original dust jacket. Blue cloth boards are spotless and unworn, with stamped black lettering and small wing design on cover, black lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. 397 pages. Clean dust jacket with vivid black and red design has crooked 4" closed tear to top of front panel, pretty much invisible with new mylar cover, otherwise in very nice condition. Suspenseful early science fiction novel about a machine that recreates incidents from the past.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. VG+ original black-stamped blue cloth, in GD+ slightly chipped & frayed DW, now protected in Brodart sleeve.

Hardcover. hardcover. fine almost near fine jacket tiny corner chips, some edge closed tears.

Hardcover. hardcover. fine almost near fine jacket closed tear top left cover.

8vo. 397, [1] pp. Blue cloth, black lettering (minor shelfwear, tape ghosting to endpapers), w/ d.j. striking wraparound Art Deco cover art (minor dustsoiling, couple very minor chips), still VG/VG copy. Second printing of this fantasy/Science Fiction novel of the scientist Brainard who invents a time machine that can see through time, and the American public's reaction to it. Hunting was a silent film Hollywood screenwriter at the time with over 30 films to his credit. Bleiler (1978), p. 105; Reginald, 07634; Locke, Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 119.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Second edition? Fine in about fine dust jacket. Beautiful copy of a bombastic novel.

First edition. Octavo, Hardcover. Concerns a machine that can see through time. Fine, top corner bumped. Near fine dust jacket save for large chip missing at heel of spine, closed tear lower front panel, extremity wear. Still an attractive copy. (3427).

Hardback. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG DW. 1stUS. Edges are slightly spotty.Dust Wrapper has a chip to the top of front cover.

First edition. Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket. Very Slight damp staining to back of book.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition, 1926 stated on copyright, hardcover octavo lacking original dust jacket. From the estate of Andrew J. Offutt, with his rubber-stamp and name and date (1953) in ink on the front endpaper. Offutt was an avid science fiction author noted for "Conan"-themed fantasies, debuted as a published writer in 1951, and wrote 100s of erotic novels pseudonymously as John Cleve, Turk Winter, John Denis, Jeff Morehead, Opal Andrews, among others. The "Spaceways" series is perhaps his ultimate collaboration between science fiction and erotica. Most institutions without personal material. Hunting was primarily a screenwriter, with over 30 silent films to his credit, and several articles for Unity Press, a religion imprint. This novel seemingly post-apocalyptic, mysterious theaters, one being the Vicarion. Very Good; lean, rubbing, brief stains, spine toned, corner bumps and light fray.

Hard Cover. Condition: vg/good+. octavo. 397pp Blue cloth in color pictorial dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on front endpaper. Jacket has some pieces out at bottom of back cover and some lighter chipping at bottom of front cover. In a mylar wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition , first printing, Kansas,1927. A near fine book in the original binding. Clean with contents excellent. In a very good+ dust jacket with slight edge rubbing otherwise very crisp and clean. Slight chip at the upper jacket spine.

First edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 396pp. Light soil to text block edges, else Near Fine in the uncommon pictorial dustjacket, unclipped. Presumed second issue jacket has review blurbs to front and rear panels. Technological thriller involving the invention of a television-like machine that can see into the future. Bleiler p. 105. Hanna 1842.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 397 pp. First Printing of the Expanded Version. Blue cloth lettered in black on the front panel and spine. Nicked and chipped around the edges and corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. The Vicarion was a Time Viewer directed toward the past, which played back the permanent record of what has been. As a consequence, murders could be solved, politics cleaned up and the true events of history understood at last. Size: 8vo.