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Publication Date: 1936
Seller: Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents, Glen Head, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: VG. NY 1936 first edition. Farrar & Reinhart. Hardcover octavo. Black cloth with white lettering. Frontispiece by Lynd Ward.309p. Owner signed on end paper. no dj. VG some light cover wear; hinges secure and unbroken; slight wrinkle on spine; text clean.
Published by Thornton Butterworth, 1936
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
First Edition
1st ed. 1st UK edition - 1st published in USA as 'The motives of Nicholas Holtz'. Some foxing; binding tight; blue pebbled cloth a little faded on spine and at edge of front board Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket).
Published by Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., New York, 1936
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
First Edition
First Edition. 309 pp. Slightly yellowed endpapers with ex-library stamps on both front and back free endpapers. Black cloth with white titles. Corners bumped, head and tail of spine lightly worn, scratches. VG.
Published by Farrar & Rinehart, New York, 1936
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. 12mo. [vii], 309 pp. Frontispiece by Lynd Ward. Cloth binding, no jacket, else good condition. (95775). Blue frontispiece.
Published by Farrar & Rinehart, 1936
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Lynd Ward (illustrator). First Edition. Hinge cracked but book tight; little title color chipping. And rare! Merits bindery repair, which would be modestly priced for hinge tightening. Ward color frontispiece. Binding is cloth.
Published by Farrar & Rinehart Inc, New York, 1936
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, hardcover in black cloth with white titling, Bleiler title with a frontispiece by Lynd Ward, has a light lean to the binding, slight bumps to spine ends and cover corners with cloth starting to wear through at corners, faint rubbing to covers with some flaking to lettering at end of title on front and spine, and a previous owner's plate to front pastedown, otherwise a solid Good+ copy in a Good dust jacket, which has bumps with short chips and tears to spine ends and corners, tape repairs to exterior of corners, spine ends and along edges and hinges, sunning with a couple cross tears to spine, and light rubbing to covers.
Published by Farrar & Rinehart, New York, 1936
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
309 pp. Frontispiece in blue by Lynd Ward. 8vo, original cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Slight bumps at corners; a tight, sound copy in a dust-soiled jacket with some edgewear and rubbing at the folds.
Published by Farrar & Rinehart, NY, 1936
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Lynd Ward (illustrator). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 309. Illustrated by Lynd Ward. VG in dj (torn along the hinge, lacking 1/3 of the spine). Horror and Mystery novel of a runaway virus.
Published by Farrar & Rinehart, New York, 1936
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
vii, 309 pp. Frontispiece by Lynd Ward. 8vo, publisher's cloth stamped in white, in dust jacket. First edition. Some chipping to the white stamping on the cloth; otherwise a fine copy in a jacket with some light edgewear, dust-soiling to the rear panel, and fading to the spine.
Published by Farrar & Rinehart, New York, 1936
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. 12mo. [vii], 309 pp. Frontispiece by Lynd Ward. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good copy. (89954). Pink dustwrapper and frontispiece.
Published by Farrar and Rinehart, E-200, 1936
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Farrar & Rinehart, New York. 1936. 309 pgs. Frontispiece by Lynd Ward. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (crown of the DJ is chipped and worn). Bound in black cloth with titles present to the spine and the front board. Boards have light wear present to the extremities of the boards. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. "Science fiction thriller revolving around a newly created plague bacterium against which there appears to be no antidote." E-200.
Published by Farrar & Rinehart, New York, 1936
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First Edition. Octavo. Illustrated dust jacket and frontispiece by Lynd Ward, price unclipped, green variant dust jacket (also noted in blue and purple). Dystopian fantasy. Very good dust jakcet, minor chipping to spine ends, light wear to edges, rear panel darkened, very good to near fine overall, pages slightly agetoned.
Published by Farrar & Rinehart, New York, 1936
Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece. Black publisher's cloth in original dust-jacket; top edges stained yellow. Some small chips and light soiling to dust-jacket, end-papers lightly spotted. First edition of this mystery/horror tale about a chemist and his bacteriologist protegà who unwittingly wreak havoc upon the public. Laing (1903-81), an American novelist and poet was also the author of the horror/mystery tale The cadaver of Gideon Wyck. A graduate of Dartmouth, he later there became an English professor as well as assistant librarian of the University Library. Laing also collaborated with Painter (? - ?) on The glass centipede.
Published by FARRAR & RINEHART., NY, 1936
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. Close to near fine in price clipped better than very good dust jacket . (Spine on jacket mildly age toned. Short edge tears in jacket. Trace of rubbing to bottom edge of cloth. ) Frontispiece & jacket designed by Lynd Ward.
Published by Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated, New York, 1936
Seller: Lok Man Rare Books. ABA/ILAB, Central, Hong Kong
First Edition
Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First Edition. -- Condition: Fine, with the exception of small hand-written 'No1323' to front pastedown, in near fine dust jacket, minor wear to tail of spine, with small unnecessary colour touch-up to spine ends and corners of front panel. -- Details: A sharp and bright first edition, rather scarce in such nice condition. With frontispiece and dust jacket illustrated by Lynd Ward. "'The Ironville Virus', a bacterium capable of reproduction at a terrific rate, which to one man's grief, proves to be the carrier of a deadly plague and which, as far as anyone knows, has no antivirus . . " To take advantage of Lynd Ward's illustrations, the first edition was issued in a variety of coloured dust jacket which matched the colour of the frontispiece, known examples exist in light blue, light green, burgundy, and red as in this copy. -- Octavo (book size 20.6x14.7cm), pp. vii [1] 309 [3]. In publisher's smooth black cloth, spine lettered and ruled in white, front panel with title blocked on a white background and lettering in white, top edge tinted yellow, others untrimmed. Dust jacket with publisher's decorative trim to all corners, and priced 'Net, $2.00' to upper corner of front flap. Dust jacket with small amount of unnecessary colour touch-up to spine ends and corners of front panel. --.
Published by Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated Publishers, New York, 1936
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vii [viii] [1-2] 3-309 [310-312: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], inserted frontispiece with illustration by Lynd Ward, original black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in white, top edge stained yellow, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough trimmed. First edition. "Science fiction thriller revolving round a newly created plague bacterium against which there appears to be no antidote." - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, pp. 171-72. "Persuasively authentic in its use of biological data, it is a well told story of the creation of artificial life in the form of a deadly virus, and of the dangers that beset the man who investigates the ensuing deaths." - Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 686. Bleiler (1978), p. 153. Reginald 08539. Hubin (1994), p. 624. A bright, clean, nearly fine copy in very good pictorial dust jacket (designed by Lynd Ward) with mild wear at edges and small shallow chips from the upper spine end. A very attractive copy. (#171896).