Portwin e t (28 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1947. First Edition. 205 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards. Black and white frontispiece. Presentation plate on front free endpaper. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Ove…

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. First story in this magazine annual. Undated, c.1946. A lost world may exist far beneath a vast underground lake under London, which aquatic half-fish half-mammal monsters visit in search of food. 3pp, illustrated by Leslie H. Shepherd. The annual allso includes school and adventure storie…

Zustand: Good. No Edition Remarks. 135 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth covered boards. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Plates are bright and clear. Previous owner's inscription to front free end-paper. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout however…

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Portwin, E. T. The Zero Ray Terrors. London: Vawser & Wiles, Ltd., [1946]. First edition. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-122 [note: frontis piece included in pagination of prelims]. Original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. (Other colors of binding cloth have been n…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / Second Print (first published in 1947). Hardback copy in red cloth boards with black lettering to front and spine, no dustjacket. 205pp. B/w frontispiece, b/w illustrations throughout (both full page and within text). Not library copy, no inscriptions. (76/3)…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. CI1 - A hardcover book in very good condition in fair dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has wrinkling, chipping, crease, some tears on the edges, corners and sides, 1.5" tear on the back top right corner, scattered stains/smudges, rubbing and wrinkl…

Zustand: Fair. 140 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, with moderate foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. APPEARS VERY LITTLE READ. WITH DUST JACKET. Minimal wear to hard back book D/j still has price corner and small loss to rear lower corner. . 205 pages. Pages are clean and tight.Inscription on f.e.p.2nd impression.Minor cracking to front and rear…

Zustand: Good. No edition remarks. 122 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Colour frontispiece. Presentation plate to front pastedown dated 1946. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Som…

Undated but 1946 publication with colour frontispiece, tightly bound in red cloth with black lettering to front and spine; top edge of spine and back panel faded; some discolouration spots to front panel; corners a little bumped. Internally, pages yellowed, especially at edges; some discolouration marks, particularly to final pa…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Hardback in dw. Undated (c. 1945). Probable 1st edition. 122pp. Colour frontispiece. Book generally near VG, though paper rather toned, with light foxing to edges. Dw has foxing on reverse and minor soiling externally. There are several closed tears and so…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Undated, and seemingly unrecorded, probably dating to the 1940s, this is the First Edition of this short story from Children's Science Fiction author, E. T. Portwin, here writing under his wife's name Elizabeth Portwin, Known for the children's science fiction story "The Boy in the Moon" pu…

"A New Kind of Thriller". A werewolf prowls the vicinity of an isolated English country estate. Pp.140, has worm damage to lower inner margins occasionally touching edge of text, owner's name to front free endpaper. Red cloth, title to front and spine. Scarce. Fair.** E.T.Portwin (1912-2006) UK publisher and author, born Portwin…

Zustand: Very good. First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket. VG+/VG. Sunday school dedication on front pastedown, wrapper price clipped with some marks on back panel which is plain white. Four stories for children, two fantasy: 'Death Swamp' (impregnated with radium) and The Lake under London (subterranean lake filled wi…

Zustand: Good. No Edition Remarks. 140 pages. Undated. Illustrated jacket by Jas E McConnell over red cloth with navy blue lettering to front and spine. A B&W illustrated frontispiece after the contents page. In which a werewolf wreaks havoc (as they so often do), in this instance on an English country estate. Pages have slight…

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. An uncommon volume containing four science fiction adventure stories for young readers by E. T. Portwin. The first edition of this uncommon short-story collection.With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.A selection of four imaginative…

Hardback. Zustand: VG. VG- DW. 1st Edition. Grey endpapers. Title and contents page followed by bw frontispiece. Main text (1)-140 pages. Red cloth lettered in black on spine and front cover. Pictorial DW is priced 5/- net. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. BUT sections of text have no…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good+. First Edition. The Limping Wolf by E.T. Portwin (First Edition) Scarce A firm copy with mild wear to spine edges and corners. Minor dampening to lower spine. Tanning to some pages. Not price-clipped. 5/- Net. A bright pictorial jacket. Chips to edges and tear to…

Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1] 2-140, inserted frontispiece, original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. A werewolf prowls the vicinity of an isolated English country estate. E. T. Thomas (1912-1907), writer, journalist, publisher, also wrote (mostly children's books and women's fiction) as "Elizabeth Port…