Five Against Venus
by Latham, Philip
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Poor
- Seller
-
Salem, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
The John C. Winston Company, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. Stated first edition. Red cloth with black spine titles, very good with edgewear, slight fading along top edge. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket heavily scuffed and edgeworn, with chipping to corners and spine tips, pencil writing to rear panel. DJ price-clipped, protected in Mylar. Pages toned, text unmarked. With dust jacket design by Virgil Finlay, and endpaper art designed by Alex Schomburg.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Book Bin (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BBS-2014781
- Title
- Five Against Venus
- Author
- Latham, Philip
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The John C. Winston Company
- Date Published
- 1952
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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The Book Bin
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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