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Published by Hadley Publishing Company, 1947
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condition: Good. Lacking dust jacket. Cover shows minor wear. Gift inscription on the front free endpaper. Pages lightly tanned, a few minor tears.
Published by Hadley Publishing Company, Providence, 1947
Seller: Ziesings, Shingletown, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
O.G. Estes Jr. (illustrator). Providence: Hadley Publishing Company:, 1947. First printing, Hardcover, Very Good with no dust jacket, 303 pp. Cover artwork by: O.G. Estes Jr. A clean, and tight copy lacking the dust jacket. First printing, Hardcover, Very Good with no dust jacket,
Published by Easton Press, 1991
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Leather Bound. Condition: Very Good. Beautifully bound in full leather with raised bands on the spine, gilt decoration. All edges gilt. Bookplate of former owner in the prelims. Pages clean.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Third Edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 245 pages; 1950 F. F. F. Publishers. HC/DJ. 3rd edition. Square, sound and clean in original pictorial dust jacket with $3.00 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Publisher/binder fault has two miscut pages with a short untrimmed tab extending from the page block. One is folded over mid-book and the other has caused a short closed horizontal tear on the title page which we have mended with arvhival japanese paper. Just superficial rub to cloth at spine ends. Dust jacket is rubbed and worn at edges with a shallow sliver missing from the top edge of the rear panel and a 1/4 moon shaped chip (1 1/2 x 1/2 inch) missing from the top edge of the cover panel. Light shlef rub over flap folds and to surface of spine panel. Solid dust jacketed early HC copy of Smith's classic. VG-/VG-.
Published by F.F.F. Publishers, Brooklyn, New York, 1950
Seller: Booked Up, Inc., Archer City, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Third Edition. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Lean to spine. Extremities bumped and rubbed. Dust jacket creased, faded and soiled with chips and tears.
Published by Easton Press, 1991
Seller: Nighttown Books, South Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Condition: As New. Easton Press Collector's Edition in gilt-stamped illustrated full blue leather with 5 raised spine hubs, 1st Thus, satin ribbon marker bound-in, all page edges gilt, Collector's Notes sheet laid in, bookplate to first white page, else bright tight as new copy; 8vo; 303pp; color frontispiece.
Published by Easton Press, Norwalk, CT, 1991
Seller: B-Line Books, Amherst, NS, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Illustrated by O. G. Estes Jr (illustrator). Collector's edition. Still stiff to open bound in full tourquoise leather with gilt decoration, silk-moire endpapers, all edges gilt, and a ribbon marker still folded as it came from the publisher. About new but for nameplate to front pastedown. Collector's notes laid-in. ; The Masterpieces of Science Fiction; 303 pages.
Published by E-319
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Hadley Publishing Company, Providence, Rhode Island. 1947. 303 pgs. Illustrated. Second Edition/First Printing. Bound in red cloth boards with gilt titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Finding that his government laboratory coworkers do not believe his discovery of a revolutionary power source that will enable interstellar flight, Dr. Richard Seaton acquires rights to his discovery from the government and commercializes it with the aid of his friend, millionaire inventor Martin Crane. When a former colleague tries to steal the invention, not only the future of Dr. Seaton and his allies, but ultimately the entire world hangs in the balance! The first of the great "space opera" science fiction novels, The Skylark of Space remains a thrilling tale more than 80 years after its creation. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Published by The Easton Press, Norwalk, CT, 1991
Seller: Russ States, Oil City, PA, U.S.A.
Full-Leather. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. O. G. Estes Jr. (illustrator). (1991), 303pp, illus., color frontis, decorative eps, dark blue cloth w/ gilt design to covers, 5 raised bars to spine, aeg, includes "Collector's Notes" pg, contents clean & unmarked.
Published by The Easton Press, Norwalk, Ct, 1991
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Collectors edition. Collectors edition. Illustrated. by O.G. Estes, Jr. 303 pp. 8vo. Gilt stamped greenleather. Bookplate. Fine Illustrated. by O.G. Estes, Jr. 303 pp. 8vo.
Published by Cranston, RI Southgate Press (1946)., 1946
Seller: Crabtree's Collection Old Books, Sebago, ME, U.S.A.
G. Light gray binding faded at edges & on spine, soil, some erased scribblings on few pages, owner name ft endpaper.
Published by Hadley Publishing Company, Providence, 1947
Seller: Ziesings, Shingletown, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
O.G. Estes Jr. (illustrator). Providence: Hadley Publishing Company:, 1947. First printing, Hardcover, Very Good in Very Good dust jacket, 303 pp. Cover artwork by: O.G. Estes Jr. A clean, straight and tight copy with lightly dusted head and moderate toning to extremities. Jacket complete with $3.00 price with modest chipping mostly to upper portion of spine panel and with half-inch closed tear at lower edge of rear panel. Replete with the very nice O.G. Estes Jr. illustrations. First printing, Hardcover, Very Good in Very Good dust jacket,
Published by Hadley Publishing Company, Providence, 1947
Seller: Turn-The-Page Books, Skyway, WA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Estes Jr., O. G. (illustrator). First printing of the Second Edition. Author's first work, originally issued in a limited edition the year before by The Buffalo Book Company. Prior owner's name inked on front flyleaf. Full cloth binding. 303pp. Illustration plates in b&w. Jacket is rubbed and has short edge tears, retains original 3.00 price on front flap Offered now in a new mylar cover. Size: 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.
Published by Easton Press, 1991
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Leather Bound. Condition: Fine. Sealed in publisher's shrink wrap. Full teal leather with vibrant gilt lettering and amazing gilt embellishments of flying saucers on the spine, space scenes on boards. All edges gilt, raised bands on spine, silk bookmark.
Published by Southgate Press January 1946, 1946
Seller: The Book Garden, Bountiful, UT, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good - Cash. Unmarked text, secure binding. General wear to corners, edges, and surface. P/O name inside. Dark green hardcovers with faded gold lettering on spine, and gold circle of lettering on lower front cover. Spine foot has rubbing to board in a few places. Corners are gently bent inward. Heavy ding to upper front corner. Spine is gently cocked. Small red pen writing inside back cover. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.
Published by Hadley Publishing Company [1947], Providence, RI, 1947
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Signed
Second edition. Octavo, cloth. "The archetypal pulp space opera, first published in AMAZING STORIES in 1928." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 2-114. "This was the story that revealed the potential of the galaxy as a vast playground for action-adventure fiction." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1053. 500 copies printed. Smith's first book, preceded by a pamphlet printing a convention speech. A fine copy with bright spine lettering in nearly fine dust jacket with light wear at spine ends and corner tips, 10 mm closed tear at lower rear flap fold, and mild dust soiling to spine and rear panels. A very attractive copy of a book rarely found in nice condition. (25982).
Published by Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1991
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine, Accented in 22kt gold, printed on archival paper with gilded edges, smyth sewing & concealed muslin joints. Bound In full leather with hubbed spines. Masterpieces of Science Fiction. ; First Easton Press Edition.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Published by Hadley, Providence, RI, USA, 1947
Seller: Stuart W. Wells III, Norwalk, CT, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. O. G. Estes, Jr. (illustrator). First Thus. Bound in brown cloth and gilt spine lettering. Second edition, first printing. (The first edition was published by the Buffalo Book Company the previous year.) Inscribed "To Julius Unger, In appreciation and with highest regard, Edward E. Smith, Ph. D" on the half title page. (Julius Unger was a well known science fiction fan, book dealer, and publisher.) A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with just a trace of edge wear and dust and one very small piece of tape at the lower front corner. An exceptional association copy. Signed by Author(s).
Published by The Buffalo Book Company, [Providence, RI, 1946
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First edition. Octavo, pp. [1-11] 12-303 [304: blank], original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. Wonderful association copy with a full page inscription signed by Smith to his friend and publisher, Lloyd Arthur Eshbach who published two more Skylark books and the Lensman series with his Fantasy Press imprint. "The archetypal pulp space opera, first published in AMAZING STORIES in 1928." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 2-114. "This was the story that revealed the potential of the galaxy as a vast playground for action-adventure fiction." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1053. 500 copies printed. Smith's first book, preceded by a pamphlet printing a convention speech. A touch of wear to the extremities, a nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with mild wear to the edges with some tiny losses, a closed tear and crease to lower front panel, a tiny closed tear to the lower rear panel and a touch of foxing to the rear panel. (30722).