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Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company; (1952). First Edition . Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Very good+ in a very good dust jacket. Pages are browning, but not as badly as usual with this title; owner's bookplate on verso of half title page. The first issue dust jacket (four Winston titles listed on rear panel) is a little sunned on the spine and has a some rubbing and light edgewear. $2.00 price is on front flap. A tight, square copy.

Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1958]. Later, fourth printing. Previous owners name in ink to rear free end paper, a fine copy in a fine dust jacket with a touch of wear to base of spine and lower corner tips (note: no printed price to jacket flap). A bright, sharp copy. Part of an original single owner collection. (27513). Octavo, jacket illustration by Virgil Finlay, cloth. A Robinsonade in which an "average American family" on their way to the Moon is stranded on Venus, an unpleasant, unexplored planet with a hostile environment including bat people and flesh eating plants. Part of the classic Winston science fiction series for young readers published between 1952 and 1961. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 5-54.

Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company , 1952. SIGNED BY AUTHOR at copyright page - "Robert S. Richardson". Illustrated end papers by Alex Schomburg; dust jacket art by Virgil Finlay. Indiana author and astronomer Robert Shirley Richardson's (1902 - 1981) first novel , written under the pen name Philip Latham. RARE SIGNED BY AUTHOR, no other signed copies of any of his books available in current commerce, none found in auction records. Near Fine, a few small spots of fading rear cover, pages browning as usual, in a Near Fine dust jacket, small rubs at spine ends and fore edge of front flap. . SIGNED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.