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Rocket Jockey
by Del REY, Lester writing as Philip St. John
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1952. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Cover and endpapers by Alex Schomburg. Quarto. 207pp. Near fine with two corners bump and bit of toning to the pastedown from the binder's glue in very good rubbed first issue dust jacket (10 tiles on the rare jacket) and moderate edgewear, including chips, creases and small tears. Inscribed by the author using both his pen names: "To Charlie + Marsha - of course - Philip St. John / Lester del Rey." One of the author's early juvenile books inscribed to Charles N. Brown, editor of *Locus* and his wife Marsha, who later married noted British sci-fi artist Eddie Jones. A nice association copy between two important and influential science-fiction editors.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 573804
- Title
- Rocket Jockey
- Author
- Del REY, Lester writing as Philip St. John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The John C. Winston Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- AssociationCopy, Science-Fiction/Horror, Children'sBook
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Gloucester City, New Jersey
About Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., founded in 1985, specializes in first editions of 20th Century American and English fiction. Our inventory of over 75,000 first editions includes: African-American literature & history, Mysteries, Detective Fiction, Drama, Books into Film and Sports books. We routinely issue extensively illustrated color catalogs, available by subscription. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA)and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB). Tom Congalton, founder of Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., actively promotes the ethics and standards of these professional organizations and served as President of the ABAA from 2000 to 2002.
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