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Hyraxia Books. ABA, ILAB, Hutton Cranswick, United Kingdom
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AbeBooks Seller since December 10, 2010
London, Heinemann, 1933. First Edition. First Impression. Hardback. A very good copy. Inscribed by the author to the front endpaper. A utopian work. Some light edgewear to the jacket, slight lean, and a little foxing. [10885, Hyraxia Books]. Seller Inventory # 10885
Title: Man's Mortality
Publisher: Heinemann, London
Publication Date: 1933
Binding: Hardback
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
first edition. very good bookplate. Seller Inventory # 15472
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: M Godding Books Ltd, Devizes, WILTS, United Kingdom
hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 'Popular Edition, 1934'. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item. Seller Inventory # 273702
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Fair. 1933. First Published. 379 pages. Black dust jacket over black cloth. Ex-libris plate stuck to front free endpaper. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Thumb-marking present. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Visible crushing to spine ends. Some tanning to spine and edges. Small splits to spine ends. Marks overall. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears and creasing. Visible tanning to spine. Noticeable rubbing to surfaces. Scuffing to edges. Water staining to panels. Seller Inventory # 1682929562MHP
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Pali, Roma, RM, Italy
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 8vo,original black cloth covers with gilt titles to spine; spine ends bumped. Internally very good with owner's name stamp neatly to paste down; light foxing spots on page ends. No dj. , pp. [i-vi] vii [viii] 1-319 A series of linked stories about a possible future written in the 1930s. In this book a global transportation system -- International Aircraft and Airways, Inc., becomes the new global government ". Seller Inventory # 211004539
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Richard Neylon, St Marys, TAS, Australia
Condition: very good. London, Heinemann 1933. Octavo, very good in publisher's cloth and dustwrapper. First edition of Arlen's dystopian science fiction and one of his least successful books. Set fifty odd years in the future, world hegemony is in the hands of a mutli-national company that got its start with a world changing invention in aviation. Seller Inventory # 8843
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 379 pages (complete).Jacket is worn and marked.Foxing.However it is still in a very good condition when age is considered, well bound and intact. MK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Seller Inventory # bail
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Llibres Bombeta, Terrassa, BCN, Spain
Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Aceptable. Firma a lápiz de un antiguo propietario en la segunda página. Seller Inventory # 010968
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA), Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good+ condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+ condition (DJ). First American edition. xx, 307 pages of text. Hardcover binding with moderate shelfwear. Unclipped dustjacket with large chips out of spine, and numerous tiny chips, tears and creases, as well as minor soiling; protected in archival mylar. Yellow "First Recmmendation of the English Book Society for January." sticker on front inner dustjacket panel. Less than one dozen pages with creases at corners. Previous owner's name neatly on front endpaper. Tiny stain to top edge of closed pages. Size: Octavo (8vo). Book. Seller Inventory # 010682
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-xix [xx-xxii] [1] 2-307 [308: blank], original black cloth, front panel stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold and blind, top edge stained red, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough-trimmed, cream coated endpapers. First U.S. edition. "International Aircraft and Airways, Inc. control the world. Democracy is abolished," - Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 151. Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 2-1; (1987) 2-1; (1995) 2-1; and (2004) II-34. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 62. Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 51. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 22. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 199. Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, pp. 256-57. Bleiler (1978), p. 10. Reginald 00487. A near fine, bright copy in about good printed dust jacket with shelf wear and shallow chipping at edges, several closed tears, and several internal tape reinforcements. (#64338). Seller Inventory # 64338
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Thylacine Fine Books, Penguin, TAS, Australia
Heinemann London 1933. First edition. Black cloth, 380pp. Small stain top of page's edges o/w good in like jacket. Australian Tax on Low Value Imported Goods (LVIG) exempt. Seller Inventory # mc196
Quantity: 1 available