And Phil Nowlan (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition Thus. A fine copy with all three pop-ups in excellent condition, clean and unmarked. Buck Rogers adventures, including "Attacked by a Reptile"!!! ; MCF04774; Pop-Up; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall.

Softcover. Condition: Poor. No Dust Jacket. Has some loose pages. Spine has some creasing, and darkening. Covers have some wear, creasing, and fading. Spine is cracked at front endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 22 pages, pictorial boards. 3 pop-up pictures help illustrated the story of "Strange Adventures in the Spider Ship". FINE as issued without dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Illustrated cover shows moderate wear, tear, and rubbing, spine is partially detached, boards are slightly warped. Pages are tanned and clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. A GOOD + copy of this very early BIG LITTLE BOOK. All extremities are shelf worn/nicked and overall rubbed, impacting a bit of the title. Text block is tight with a slight 'under-bite'. Only two pencil names - on front and rear blank end-papers, else no markings at all. Illustrated with b/w drawings. 315 pages. A hard to find early title. …

Soft Cover. Condition: VG+. No Jacket. First Edition. Bound in Printed Wraps. A "Big Little Book", part of Cocomalt giveaway promotion, circa 1934; with illustrated color cover, with some scraping to spine; text on one page, with B&W illustration on opposite page; unpaginated, approx. 200-250pp., plus 2 pages of ads. …

Soft cover. Condition: Good. This is a Big Little Book edition published by Whitman Publishing. Book is in Good+ condition. It appears to be a first edition, although not stated. Great cover art and full of dozens of illustrations, including a Cocomalt add on the last two pages and rear cover. The cover has some light rubbing to corners and edges of spine but the cover are is still sharp and fairly bright. Slight forward slant to spine. All pages are intact. A short section of cloth repair tape has been used to secure binding to title page but binding appears to be tight and solid. Previous owner's name has been written at the top of title page and the first three illustrations have been colored in with colored pencil. Otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked. Book will arrive in protective 2 mil. polypropylene sleeve. See photos.…

Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition, Cocomalt printing. Big Little Book #742. Cocomalt premium issue (circa 1934?) advertising the chocolate flavored food drink on the rear cover, inside covers and last page. A fine copy of this fragile little book. (#160638).

Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Scarce. 13 cm. Paginated [1] 6-60 pp. In original pictorial paper-covered boards. Condition: Good. General shelf wear. Heavy deterioration along the spine. Presentation inscription of prior owner on front endpaper. From Blue Ribbon's "Midget 'Pop-Up' Series". Contains one, double-page full-color interplanetary pop-up scene featuring Buck Rogers, which is Fine and Complete. The remaining text features black-and-white comic illustrations throughout. Blue Ribbon Books holds the original 1930s U.S. patent for the "Pop-Up" trademark, the information for which appears on the verso of the front endpaper. According to auction authority Hake's, The "Pop-Up" Buck Rogers in a Dangerous Mission is perhaps the most highly sought title in the five-book series, which includes characters like Mickey Mouse and Pop-Eye. Size: 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Dust Jacket. Hardcover. Yellow color illustrated boards show soil and edge wear. Two inch closed tear along front gutter. Text pages are tanned. A few chipped edges. Two page full color pop up is in nice condition. Blue Ribbon Midget series. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.; 16mo 6" - 7" tall.…

52 fascicoli in-folio cm. 40 X 32 di pp. 12 a numero in media, tutti con la bross. edit. che riproduce il testo originale in inglese. Spradichemarginali ingialliturer ai margini delle bross. (molto rate) e titti in ottimo stato.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Stapled wraps. Color illustrations bright and clean. No writing and only light scuffing to back cover, light edgewear. Kelloggs advertising on back page and back cover.

Octavo, pp. [1-3] 4-31 [32: ad], 22 color illustrations, pictorial wrappers, stapled. First edition. A cereal premium booklet, written by Nowlan and illustrated by Calkins, which introduced young readers to the twenty-fifth century world of Buck Rogers, his associates and his enemies. The newspaper strip ran from 1929 to 1946. It "had many imitators . but none equaled its influence or ingenuity. It introduced more people to science fiction than any other medium before or since, with the possible exception of the motion picture, 'Star Wars.'" - Survey of Science Fiction Literature, p. 88. This is the first appearance of Buck Rogers in a comic magazine type format. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978). Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). Light stain on inside front cover with faint show through but no discoloration to outer surface, tiny crease to lower corner of front cover, mild dust soiling to rear cover, a bright, very good copy overall. (#158285).…

unknown_binding. Condition: Acceptable. Whitman Publishing Company Paperback. Heavy creasing to wraps, including spine. Pencil inscription to front fly leaf. Binding remains secure, though obviously strained. Pages tanned with light creasing and tearing throughout.