Across the Space Frontier

NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1930. In Collaboration with Clarence A. Bush. Illustrated. Small 8vo., blue cloth, stamped in yellow, in dust jacket. First Edition. Signed presentation from Weissmuller on the title page: For Vern your [sic] a great guy, Johnny Weissmuller." Uncommon to find signed first editions or any in the original dust jacket. Weissmuller was an Austro-Hungarian-born American competition… Read more about this item

Sidgwick & Jackson, 1952. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1952. First Edition Thus. 147 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over red cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages have mild tanning and foxing throughout, moderate at end-papers, paste-downs and text-block edges. Previous owner's inscription to reverse of front free end-paper. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing… Read more about this item

New York: The Viking Press, 1952. 147 pages. 8 in x 11 in. Title page has b/w drawings. Text illustrated with color and b/w plates, drawings, charts and a 2 pages color sectional view of the space station. Pages v/g condition. Endpapers illustrated in color. Blue cloth, silver titles on spine and silver illustrations on upper cover. Edges and… Read more about this item