Search Results: mists of dawn by oliver chad

winston, 1952, first edition ,,. good, hole in spine, chipped spine end and corners, $2.00 intact jacket only, NO BOOK

John C. Winston, 1952. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Light scuffing and smudging across boards and spine strip. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

London: Hutchinson & Co. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Good in a Good jacket, unclipped (7/6 net), generally rubbed and with multiple chips, closed tears, creases, and scuffs. Grey boards, a dent matching the one on the jacket, with black ink lettering on the spine. Bound with a slight forward lean and some reading wear, foxed at the edges. Oliver's time-travelling novel that sees a man back in 50,000 BC fighting for survival on the plains of the Ice Age.

Boston: Gregg Press, 1979. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition thus. The dust jacket has light edge wear..

Hoorn: U. - M. "West-Friesland, 1952. First Dutch Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Drawings By Wim Bink. 188 Pp. Illustrated Glossy Paper Covered Boards. Light Wear At Corners.

London: Hutchinson & Co, 1952. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First UK edition first printing 1954, the boards are clean and sharp, with slightly softened corners. The spine is straight with perfect titling, the ends are bumped and lightly faded where the jacket has losses. The text block edges are toned. There is a previous booksellers neat pencil price to the half title page. The pages are crisp and clean, no spots marks or tears. Feels very well bound and lightly read. very good condition. The jacket as historic tape to the top and bottom edges of the jacket, going on to the flaps, with additional pieces of tape to the verso of head and foot of the spine, where there are losses. The spine is a touch lightened, the front panel has bold colours and minimal rubbing, the rear panel is glossy and white. Jacket grades as good. For grading accuracy books are photographed without a protective book cover. This book is fitted with a… Read More

London: Hutchinson & Co 1950 First UK Hardcover Edition cr.8vo 240pp, 1950 VG original teal cloth, slightly soiled, spine slightly sunned, illustrated end-papers, rear page almost loose, otherwise internally very clean throughout.

Hutchinson, 1954T. hardcover. Very Good. **HARDBACK** In unclipped dustjacket No stamps or inscriptions; clean condition; 1st Hutchinson 1954; jacket has tiny losses and tears to top edge of front panel; inside book clean with no stampsor inscriptions

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Boston: Gregg Press, 1979. Near fine in near fine jacket.. Scarce Gregg Press reprint edition of Symmes Chadwick Oliver's first novel. MISTS OF DAWN was originally published in 1952 as part of the Winston Juvenile Series of science fiction novels for young adults, brought back into print by editors David G. Hartwell and L.W. Currey. All books in the series featured an authorial introduction discussing the scientific foundations of the story to follow; in MISTS OF DAWN, a time-travel adventure, Oliver provides a brief essay on "The Science of Man", with such subheadings as "How to travel in time" and "What is Anthropology?" He regrets to inform the reader that there are no dinosaurs in this book. A beautiful copy of this uncommon edition. 8'' x 5.5''. Original black cloth with silver-lettered spine. In original pictorial dust jacket by Mike Symes. 208 pages. Light foxing and wear to top edge of text block and upper edge of jacket flaps.

Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co., [1952]. 8vo. xv, [1], 208 pp. Illust. endpapers showing robots, flying saucers and spacesuits, & rockets by Schomburg. Gray publisher’s cloth, black lettering (uniform interior toning as usual, offsetting at gutter margin), w/ d.j. vivid cover art of time machine portal in prehistoric 50,000 B.C. by Alex Schomburg (chipping head & foot of spine, edgewear, creasing, some slight scuffing, price-clipped), still VG/G copy. First edition, stated, of this Winston Science Fiction title, and anthropologist Chad Oliver’s first work, set against the backdrop of 17-year-old Mark returned to 50,000 B.C. and the battles between Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon peoples.

VG/G. Jacket in mylar. Spine sunned, small chip to middle of spine

Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1952. First Edition. VG-/G; multi-colored spine, white text; jacket has protective mylar cover, significant rubbing, staining, edgewear, open tears at spine head and tail and on back head edge, several small closed tears around edges, price clipped; boards are strong, rubbing around edges, with age spotting throughout entirety of boards; textblock clean; interior pages are discolored from age but otherwise clean; pp 210; FLP Collection. Shelve Case 8. 1285270. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

E-281: 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 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. EB; 208 pages .

Gregg Press, 1979-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

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… Read More

Philadelphia, Pa: John C. Winston Company, 1952. Book. Very Good. Cloth. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition, so stated. Gray/beige cloth with brown lettering/design to spine. SIGNED and INSCRIBED, " 17 May 1956 To -----, with best wishes, Chad Oliver". A subsequent owner has whited out that owner's name and written in his own with no affect to the rest of the inscription or signature. This copy is VG in a VG, unclipped ($2.00) DJ illustrated by Alex Schomburg and now protected by Mylar. Exterior is clean with minimal wear to edges, spine ends , or tips. Inside has a triangular faded damp stain ( about 2" wide by 1" tall) throughout, not affecting text. PO armorial BP to 3rd inside page. Otherwise unmarked, moderately toned. Decorative EPs. DJ moderate chipping at spine ends, modest wear at tips, and one 1/2" x 1/4" chip at top back. Otherwise bright and attractive. Oliver's first book. SCARCE SIGNED.… Read More

MISTS OF DAWN, Winston, 1952, first edition, pages tanning somewhat as usual, else just about fine in a vg/vg+ dust-wrapper save for some rubbing to the front dust-wrapper panel and shallow chipping to the head of the dust-wrapper spine. The authors first book.

John C. Winston. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover first edition is toned along edges of covers and pages and to ffep. Unclipped jacket has light wear to edges and spine ends. Inscribed by Oliver to half-title page. Laid in is a letter from Oliver to a collector. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author .