taine john pseud (16 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 1st Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. 1946. Publisher's navy blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Spots of faded color on front and spine. Corners sharp. Binding tight. Very slight forward lean. No markings. 251 pgs. only slightly tanned. Approx. 7.5 x 5.25" w. Damaged black and gold illustrated dust jacket missing pieces on front panel; spine panel tears repaired internally with tape. Unclipped front flap ($3.00). A good+ copy in fair dj. The author's 9th novel, The Time Stream, was first released as a four-part serial, in the December '31 to March '32 issues of Hugo Gernsback's 25-cent Wonder Stories magazine. The novel concerns time travel and links the world Eos at the beginning of the universe with the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Publisher's light purple cloth with stamped gilt letters on front and spine. Gilt rubbed but legible. Sunned spine and lightly soiled front cloth with slight loss of color. Top edge of front and spine is nibbled and lightly frayed. Binding tight. Dust jacket fold clipped and glued to first free end paper. Newspaper clippings pasted to two end papers leaving brown shadows on prior leafs and title page. See images. Foxing on page edges. Vii; 357 age toned pages. 7.75" x 5.25" w. A good copy with flaws noted. "an exploration of Africa by three American doctors who hope to find the diabolical power which is depriving one of their patients of his articulate speech and is slowly reducing him to the level of a wild beast."/blurb.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. The Story of the Terrible Days in the Summer of 1990. Now told in full for the first time. Publisher's textured orange cloth, lightly soiled, with stamped green letters on front and spine. Sunned spine with 1/2" fabric split on upper edge of front fold. Extremities obviously nibbled and lightly frayed. Binding tight with slight forward lean. Age toned pages without markings. Pps. v; 313. 7.5" x 5.25" w. A good copy with flaws noted. A mad scientist attempts to control atomic energy, but almost blows up the entire universe.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 278 pages; Description: 278 p. Illus. 20 cm. Form/genre: Science fiction 3 Kg.

Ric Binkley (illustratore). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 255. Decorations by Ric Binkley. Ex library, pocket removed, jacket blurb pasted on blank. Somewhat soiled and worn, good only, in torn dj.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 278 pages; Description: 278 p. Illus. 20 cm. Form/genre: Science fiction 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Publisher's purple cloth with stamped orange lettering on front and spine. Tiny spots of lost color on front board. Spine sunned; fore edge of front board and foot fore edge corner of rear board nibbled by sharp teeth, not likely gold teeth. See images. Binding tight. Trimmed fold of dust jacket laid in, previously glued to first free endpaper over stamp from circulating library at Stevenson News Stand. Age toned pages without markings. Pps. v (uncut), 436. 7.75" x 5.5"w. "This is a thrilling scientific mystery story of a white gold tooth that concealed a deep scientific secret which gave the owner untold power for good and evil."/blurb "Eric Temple Bell was a Scottish-born mathematician and science fiction writer who lived in the United States for most of his life. He published non-fiction using his given name and fiction as John Taine."/ Wikipedia.

8vo. [10], 278 pp. Frontisp., 3 plates, historiated initials. Tan publisher's cloth, gilt lettering on spine, illustrated endpapers, w/ d.j. cover art by A.J. Donnell (slight shelfwear, dustsoiling), NF/NF copy. First edition of this Science Fiction adventure by the noted Caltech mathematician and historian of science, Eric Temple Bell, set against the backdrop of a palaeo-botanist and geologist duo heading to the Himalayas and Central Asia to investigate the need for a scarce soil sample from a British herbarium.

8vo. [8], 251, [1] pp. Blue cloth, gilt lettering (slight shelfwear), w/ d.j. cover art by Allan Halladay (slight chipping foot of spine, 1 closed tear at lower front corner), NF/G copy, w/ former ownership markings on ffep. First Buffalo edition, 1 of 2000 copies, of this classic Science Fiction adventure by the noted Caltech mathematician and historian of science, Eric Temple Bell.

8vo. 254 pp. Historiated initials. Light blue publisher's cloth, black lettering on spine, illustrated endpapers (minor spotting & sunning to spine), w/ d.j. cover art by Hannes Bok (slight shelfwear, dustsoiling), NF/NF copy. First edition of this Science Fiction adventure by the noted Caltech mathematician and historian of science, Eric Temple Bell, set against the backdrop of a Yellow Peril plot surrounding crystalline life and conflict in the Far East, originally published in Amazing Stories as "White Lily.".

4to. 159, [1] pp. Text illustrations by Elliot Dold, Jr. & M. Marchioni. Colour-illustrated softcovers, cover art by Harold V. Brown, yapp fore-edges (uniform light interior toning as usual, minor shelfwear), still G copy. First edition of this installment in Astounding Stories, featuring Part IV of John Taine's "Twelve Eighty-Seven," Williamson's "The Galactic Circle," and Stuart's "Rebellion.".

8vo. [10], 278 pp. Frontisp., 3 plates, illustrated limitation page, historiated initials. Brick-red publisher's cloth, gilt lettering on spine, illustrated endpapers, w/ d.j. cover art by A.J. Donnell (slight shelfwear, dustsoiling), NF/NF copy, inscribed by author & numbered presented to J.C. Richards, w/ very scarce 4-pp. colour-printed publisher's prospectus, illustrated by A.J. Donnell, and bookplate on ffep. First edition, No. 277 of 500 copies, & signed, of this Science Fiction adventure by the noted Caltech mathematician and historian of science, Eric Temple Bell, set against the backdrop of a palaeo-botanist and geologist duo heading to the Himalayas and Central Asia to investigate the need for a scarce soil sample from a British herbarium.

8vo. [8], 258 pp. Green publisher's cloth, gilt illust. on front cover by Jack Perkins, gilt lettering on spine (minor shelfwear, slight rubbing), w/ d.j. Art Deco cover art by Jack Perkins (very minor chipping head of spine, edgewear, some dustsoiling), still VG/VG copy, from the library of Donald Wandrei, author & co-founder of Arkham House, w/ small label laid-in. First edition, stated, of this famed lost race Science Fiction adventure by the noted Caltech mathematician and historian of science, Eric Temple Bell, set against the backdrop of a young woman aviatrix joining a scientific expedition to Antarctica in search of a lost world.

Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1947. First Edition, Limited Issue of 500 numbered copies signed by author Eric Temple Bell with brief inscription to previous owner, this being #221. Octavo. 278 pp. Frontispiece. Illustrated dust jacket. Brown boards stamped in gilt; illustrated endpapers. Unclipped dust jacket shows moderate wear to edges with some shallow chipping and a couple very short tears; general rubbing. Boards with a couple bumps along edges and binding is sound. Fading to endpapers and interior else unmarked. Very Good.

4to. 157, [1] pp. Text illustrations by Elliot Dold, Jr. & M. Marchioni. Colour-illustrated softcovers, cover art by Harold V. Brown, yapp fore-edges (uniform light interior toning as usual, minor shelfwear, old tape repair head of spine), still G- copy. First edition of this installment in Astounding Stories, featuring Part II of John Taine's "Twelve Eighty-Seven," Bates's "Alas, All Thinking," Wandrei's "Murray's Light", and others.

4to. 130 pp. Text illustrations. Colour-illustrated softcovers, cover art by Norman Saunders depicting a future mechanical beauty parlour and nude woman encased in glass reminiscent of future tanning beds, yapp fore-edges (uniform light interior toning as usual, minor shelfwear, small closed tear front cover, minor creasing to fore-edge front cover, slight dustsoiling), still G- copy. First edition of this very scarce installment of the 4th issue after the pulp was established by Western Publishing in 1938, and would also spawn Marvel Comics in 1939, which was notorious for its mildly erotic approach over only five total issues. This issue featured Bell's full length "Tomorrow" against the backdrop of a hydrogen-helium plague.