RIP FOSTER Rides the Grey Planet ( Venture Library No: 3 ) by Savage, Blake - 1952

Golden Press, Sydney, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: E. Deane Cate. Illustrated end pages and the drawings within the text have all been executed by E. Deane Cate. Red coloured boards with black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. A book from the early 1950s for young adults, in ripping style. Young Rip Foster has just graduated and commissioned in the Planeteer corps (space going Marine) his tasked with retrieving an asteroid made of pure thorium from the asteroid belt, back to work to use as energy. But, agents from other countries also seek to control the asteroid ... Softening of the back strip edges with baiting and staining to the back strip itself. Bumping of the book corners with the underlying board visible. There is a bow in the front panel and the boards shows stains and marks. Age toning of the text block edges and panels with scattered fine foxing to the text block edges and throughout stop there has been a little… Read More

Publicity Products Limited, London 1952 (1st UK). Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Lovely book in wrapper with some wear and a chip at bottom of spine. Near Fine in VG wrapper

Golden Press, Sydney, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Illustrator: E. Deane Cate. Hardcover. 183 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Golden Press, Sydney, 1952. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in very good condition and comes in fair dust jacket. More specifically: Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Edges of dust jacket have moderate wear and major chips and/or tears. . Dust jacket is protected in clear, plastic sleeve. Pages are reasonably tanned. *** Illustrator: E. Deane Cate. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Children & Young Adult; Teenage Fiction; Inventory No: 19010227..

Publicity Products, 1954. Book. Illus. by E Deane Cate. Good-. Hardcover. Mild page tanning and a few pages have a light crease, else internally in very good condition; cover has very light rubbing but a lot of small marks. No wrapper..

London: Publicity Products. Edge-wear to jacket. Owner's name else minimal wear to book. Undated UK issue. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1952.

LONDON: PUBLICITY PRODUCTS LIMITED. Hard cover with illustrated dust jacket. NB: Lengthwise split on DJ spine/front of DJ edge, so front of DJ is detached from the rest of the DJ but is present Top section of DJ spine above title is missing. Piece missing on bottom back corner of DJ. Tear on bottom edge of front of DJ. Not price clipped. Red boards. Bump damage on bottom edge of board spine. Slight wear/bump damage on corner edges of boards. Pages are slightly foxed. Corner folds/creases on a few pages. Clean, tight pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. Science Fiction adventure novel. Black and white illustrations. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Location: LXB2 . Good. Hardcover. First UK Edition.. 1952.

PUBLICITY PRODUCTS LIMITED, 1952. Hardback. GOOD/No Dust Jacket. E. DEANE CATE. RED BINDING, SLIGHT FOXING

PUBLICITY PRODUCTS LIMITED, 1952. Hardback. GOOD/No Dust Jacket. E. DEANE CATE. ORANGE BINDING, SLIGHT FOXING

London : Publicity Products. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Series: Venture library, no. 3. Physical description: 183 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. Subjects: Science fiction, American; Science fiction, Children's; Space Stories; Space Exploration, Fiction.

UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Originally and first published US, Whitman Publishing Company,1952.Published by arrangement with Western Printing and Lithographing Company,Racine, Wisconsin,USA.] NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,no clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price! Bright,crisp,clean,glossy.wrap-around colour pictorial artwork illustrated dw/dj with red+white lettering to front panel and spine; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners with very little edge wear or creasing,corners minisculely rubbed with reciprocal miniscule loss.One 2cm closed tear - without loss - at foot of spine/backstrip of dw/dj - no other major nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges lightly toned without visible traces of foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread - apart from 2 illustrations being competently and partially coloured by a previous reader/ owner.Other than that.contents would be virtually pristine.Bright,… Read More