Strange As It Seems by Hix, Elsie - 1955 first edition

New York, N.Y.: Hart Publishing Co., Inc., 1976. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket. Pages showing some light wear.. 186 p. illus. 18 cm. Includes Illustrations.

Garden City, NY: Hanover House, 1953 Edge wear with a tiny tear at the top of spine. Bookplate on the front pastedown. DJ is pretty bad, and in two pieces. Has a damp stain, some soil, chips and edge tears, and fraying. Plastic cover available. Interesting collection of unusual historical, and scientific facts. Illustrated in black & white drawings.. Hard Cover. Good/Poor. Illus. by Jahns, George. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Bantam Books, 1962. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Bantam, 1955. 2nd Bantam printing. Light creases to the spine and the corners of the cover. A little wear to the edges.. Paperback. Good.

Bantam Books. New York: Bantam Books, Inc. , 1955 first edition . 1334 , very good +, creases, , paperback,

Bantam Paperback #1334 CONDITION: g used.

Bantam Books. Good. 1955. Softcover. Bantam 1955 edition, #1334 (#4 on spine). Pages intact and unmarked other than very light stain affecting top edge of first few pages. Light age tanning to pages and covers. Cover has moderage edge/corner wear, some creasing, edge rubbing and small tears to spine bottom, which have been neatly taped. Cover pulls away a bit from spine bottom front and rear but no pages are loose. B/w illus. , 195 pages plus ads. Fantastic, impossible, but true facts from around the world. (85os) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 195 pages .

Garden City NY Hanover House, 1953, hardcover. Selection from 25,000 newspaper columns "Strange As It Seems" 1928 to 1953. Examples: cow tree of Venezuela, Hawaiian alphabet, kiwi, baboon, strangest naval battle, etc. -- Hardcover. Condition: very good (light rub to covers; owner name; no jacket).

New York: Hanover House, 1953. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very good in good dustwrapper. Book has minor rub of spine, edges and corners of cover, yellowing of edges of cover, fading of cover, yellowing of pages, 35 in black craylon on front end pg, dustwrapper shows light soiling, sticker on front cover, spine ends torn, some tearing on edges, flap corners clipped. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Garden City: Hanover House, 1953. Hardcover. Illustrations by George Jahns. 8vo. Blue/grey tweed paper over boards with yellow spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 256pp. Numerous illustrations. Very good/very good. Jacket lightly edgeworn, with a few tiny edge chips at head/tail of spine. Tight, attractive later printing of this "Ripley's Believe It or Not" competitor's tales of the strange and weird. "An astounding array of unbelievable but proven facts," boasts jacket's front panel, "oddities in nature, science, history, and people....