White Python by Mark Channing, Used (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. 1st Edition. In yellow cloth. Slight darkening to cloth on spine. Small name stamp. No jacket. A nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First American edition. Bright yellow cloth, titles in black. Large ink name to front fixed end paper VG in VG price clipped dj with considerably browned spine panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 8vo. pp 286. Original publishers teal cloth lettered black at spine and cover. From the Donald Rudd collection of detective fiction. Lost race novel. Neat non-authorial inscription to endpaper. Covers slightly faded and discoloured, very good-minus with clean text.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 6th thousand. Type: Book Signed and inscribed by the Author to the flyleaf, dated 1938. Irregular sun browning to spine and upper boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. White Python by Mark Channing (First Edition) A firm copy with minor wear to spine edges and corners. Minor stains to cover and tanning to spine. Minor foxing to bottom edge of text block. Owner's name to front free endpaper. No publication date stated [1934]. Black cloth with green lettering; maps to front and rear pastedowns. 286 pp. Publisher's catalog dated Spring & Early Summer 1934 bound in rear. Lost race adventure novel. Colin Gray is on his first Secret Service mission in Tibet."Adventure thriller featuring Colin Gray and his efforts to avert a plot to subjugate India by means of a mysterious poison gas of volcanic origin." - A Spectrum of Fantasy, pp 50. BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. White Python by Mark Channing (First British Edition) A firm copy with mild wear to spine edges and corners. Minor sunning to spine and rubbing to cover. Light offset tanning to endpapers. Bright map. No publication date stated [1934]. Publisher's adverts: Spring & Early Summer 1934. Black cloth with yellow lettering; Map with red lettering and designs to front and rear pastedown. 286 pp. BOOK.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). First edition. An uncommon to see science fiction novel by Mark Channing, a presentation copy to his friend J. H. H. Gaute. The first U.K. edition of this uncommon work.Author's presentation copy, inscribed to the recto of the front endpaper, 'For my friend, J. H. H. Gaute, to whose careful readings of the M.S. of 'White Python', your many conversations regarding its form + destiny, this author owes more than he can here express, Mark Channing, Chelsea 13.4.34'. J. H. H. Gaute was an author who wrote 'Murderers' Who's Who'.The sequel to Mark Channing's novel 'King Cobra', 'White Python' follows immediately on from the discovery of Prester John's descendents living in an underground community in Tibet.Channing was the pseudonym of Leopold Aloysius M. Jones, a soldier who spent twenty years in India.Fifty-eight pages of publisher's adverts to the rear. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart, with a few minor marks to the boards. Very light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Spine is a little faded. Author's inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. signed by author. book.

First U. S. edition. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-320, frontispiece map, original yellow cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. Lost race adventure novel. Sightless Troglodytes ruled by a beautiful, but merciless queen in subterranean Tibet. The second of four Colin Gray novels. [Reference: Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 151. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 50. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 41. Reginald 02865]. Nick to rear spine cloth, a nearly fine copy in a very good price clipped dust jacket with light shelf wear and rubbing, small chip to lower right front corner, small chip to center of rear spine fold, tiny chip at upper spine panel at left corner. (27973).