Mists of Dawn

C2a: John C. Winston. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1952. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by The John C. Winston Company, Philadelphia PA. 1958. Xvi, 208 pgs. Decorated endpapers. First Edition/First Printing. Alex Schomburg designed DJ has shelf-wear present (DJ is lightly chipped and worn). Bound in grey cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. A 17-year-old makes an unplanned trip through space and time to Europe 50,000 years ago where Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon man engage in conflict for survival. The Winston Science Fiction set comprises 35 science fiction juvenile novels by famous science fiction authors such as Poul Anderson, Arthur C. Clarke, Ben Bova, and Lester del Rey, one anthology, and one non-fiction book Rockets through Space: The Story of Man's Preparations to Explore the Universe by del Rey which details the factual science and technology of rocket flight. The set was published by The John C. Winston Company between 1952 and 1960, then by Holt, Rinehart & Winston until 1961. The dust jackets feature classic science fiction illustrations by artists like Hugo Award winners Ed Emshwiller and Virgil Finlay along with Hugo nominees like Mel Hunter and Alex Schomburg. ; 208 pages .