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Rocket Jockey
by St. John, Philip
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good +/Very good +
- Seller
-
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1952. Early Printing. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. Alex Schomburg. 207pp. Octavo. [22cm]. Blue cloth over boards. Yellow stamped title on spine and yellow stamped illustration on font board. Publisher's black topstain on text block. Two illustrated dust jackets and illustrated endpapers. Text block edges are slightly yellowed. Both dust jackets have minor tears and the corners are clipped but the price is still intact. Inner jacket has impression of the illustration on the boards. Jacket and endpaper illustrations by Alex Schomburg.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 61572
- Title
- Rocket Jockey
- Author
- St. John, Philip
- Illustrator
- Alex Schomburg
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Early Printing
- Publisher
- The John C. Winston Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- vintage; collectible; space travel; scifi; adventure;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Ken Sanders Rare Books is a full service antiquarian bookshop in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. We carry an ever-changing inventory of art, ephemera, maps, photography, and postcards in addition to a vast selection of used and rare books along with a few new books. We actively purchase and appraise books in all fields.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...