Dobias Frank Illustrator (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good-. No Jacket. First Edition, Later Printing. Dark blue covers with orange printing; book is in one piece, but well worn on spine, edges, and corners; tears on top and bottom of spine. Front endpapers are torn, with webbing showing at binding. Back endpapers are stained at the bottom, with stain carrying through back through 20 pages or so. 166 pp., unmarked; b/w illustrations. Frank Dobias (illustrator) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition First Printing. Book #5 in the 8-volume boys' adventure series written during & set in World War II by a real aviator author who had served with the Royal Flying Corps. The series featuring the heroic pilot Lucky Terrell & his crack fighting team as they engage in air battles against the Japanese enemy. In 210 pages, with decorative endpapers & internal illustrations by Frank Dobias. A FIRST EDITION, first printing, listing to book #4 on rear DJ (with summary on rear flap), self-summary on front flap. Hardcover has bright green cloth over boards with a black plane design & lettering to front & spine. Condition is VG+: extremely clean, binding straight & strong, hinges intact, pages moderately tanned, especially around edges, commensurate with wartime paper quality (notice on title page), but unmarked. Only flaws are bumping to all corners & mild rubbing to extremities. The unclipped DJ is just Good, with chipping to corners & both ends of spine, with a large missing section (obliterating entire title & most of author's name) at top of spine; rubbing to all extremities. Else, bright, clean, & colorful, with NO fading; nicely protected in new mylar cover free! Our photos depict the EXACT book you will receive from us--never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day. Dobias, Frank (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Stated First Edition. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1943. Stated First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. Frank Dobias, Illustrator. First Edition (stated on copyright page) in clean unclipped original dust jacket. Clean rust brown cloth boards with illustration of boy with camel on cover, brown lettering on spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. Illustrated by Frank Dobias. Three color frontispiece map, many drawings and maps. 190 pages. Clean dust jacket is not price clipped (2.00 on front inside flap), a few tiny edge nicks and short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A splendid introduction for American children to the great continent where civilization began, where man first recorded his thoughts on stone tablets on the banks of the Nile and where the pyramids still tower. Frank Dobias, Illustrator (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Book is fine and unmarked. Jacket has a large chip at the top of the spine affecting the How of the title, but is else whole, clean and bright, and protected by Mylar plastic. Rare in the dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. This book appears to have been rebound, very nicely, by library (bright red, linen covered boards with bright gilt on spine along with shelf number in gilt on spine, some light smudging inside; Very light wear to book, wonderful color and black and white illustrations throughout (A German version of Pinnochio); Ex-Library; 151 pages. Illustrated by Frank Dobias (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1947 printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Original goldenrod designer cloth with red titles and date on title page. Foreword by Alexander Klemin. Rare aviation work by a then-popular author in the Windmill Books series. Book is fine and unmarked. Jacket has a 1/4" horizontal chip at spine edge not affecting title, and a couple of edge nicks, and is otherwise whole, clean and bright, and protected by an archival Mylar jacket cover. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Tan cloth boards lettered in brown under Frank Dobias illustrated dust jacket. DJ neatly split at front joint, some light chipping at edges, rubbing. Book itself has a bookseller stamp else a lovely copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: About Very Good. First Edition. First edition. (vii), 209 pp. Blue cloth lettered in red. Fine in About Very Good bright original dust jacket, missing chip at head, two small tears in bottom of front panel with associated crease, a few other small chips. Juvenile nautical fiction by the mysterious American writer whose hardboiled crime stories for Black Mask were some of the most acclaimed in the magazine's run. Rare in its colorful art deco jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First edition. (x), 234 pp. Blue cloth lettered in red. Fine in Very Good+ pice-clipped dust jacket, rubbed and little edge-worn, but bright and unfaded. A collection of juvenile aviation short stories by the mysterious American writer, whose hardboiled crime stories for Black Mask were some of the most acclaimed in the magazine's run.…