E C Large (103 results)

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

Soft cover. Condition: VG- (Very Good Minus). Glossy red wraps with mild edgewear and toning, and a bit of bubbling to laminate over spine. Mild soil to text block. Binding tight, spine lightly creased, text clean. Interior lightly toned. B/w illustrations. No prev owner names, stickers or stamps. Not ex-library. 488 pp. …

hardcover. Condition: Good. Arno Press, NY, 1978, (reprint of 1939 edition), 8vo., brown cloth, 351pp., ex-lib.- spine label, pocket, stamps, VG- $.

Condition: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.…

Octavo, cloth. Later edition. Text offset from that of the 1939 Henry Holt and Company. Published earlier in Britain by Jonathan Cape in 1938. "A devastating attack on the imaginative blindness of the English bourgeoisie." - Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 2-59. Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, p. 691. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 133. Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, p. 260. Bleiler (1978), p. 119. Reginald 08625. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. (#149831).…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. FIRST THUS. First Edition Thus. Published by Dover Publications, 1962. Octavo. Paperback. Book is very good with shelfwear and price whited out on front cover. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Dover Pubns, 2000. Octavo. Paperback. Book is very good. Covers have shelf wear.

paperback. Condition: very good. 5 3/8 x 8 1/2 " 488 pages. unabridged republication of the original edition. "This book relates the story of the battle against fungi from the year of the potato blight struck Europe (1845) up to 1940.".

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Page edges dust darkened. Bottom edge slightly worn. Otherwise pages fairly sound. Notes written on front flyleaf. No jacket. Cover badly stained. Corners and edges bumped and worn. Bumping to spine ends. 413 pages.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. 96 + pp. Spring 2001, Vol. 14, No. 2 issue only! ISSN 0895-4852. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. 97 + pp. Fall 2001, Vol. 14, No. 4 issue only! ISSN 0895-4852. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. 96 + pp. Winter 1999-2000, Vol. 13, No. 1 issue only! ISSN 0895-4852. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. Boards have heavy shelf rubbing with scuffing and smudging as well as bumping and tearing. Spine of the boards have heavy tearing and tape repairs. Binding is heavily shaken. End pages have moderate age-toning and smudging with foxing. Page edges have heavy age-toning and smudging with foxing. Interior pages have moderate age-toning and smudging with foxing. This book is in acceptable condition and is a reading copy. No dust jacket included with this book. This book is from a library and may include stamps, tape, and markings. This copy is the First Edition of the published work. This copy is the First Printing of the published work. Secure packaging for safe delivery.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 447pp [some soiling to page edges; light chipping, wear to dust jacket] Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 8vo. 447 pp. Grey-blue cloth with gilt decorations and titles. Original owner's name front pastedown else this is a tight, near fine book in a very good price-intact DJ with shallow edge wear at the spinal extremities and a couple of small wrinkles in the spine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition. Octavo, original blue cloth over boards, blindstamped, gilt lettering, stained top edge, deckle edge, color illustrated dust jacket. E.C. dust jacket art. Bleiler listed fantasy title, of a businessman who develops 'Sunsap,' sugar extracted from the air. "A savage book, not only in its dissection of contemporary industrial methods but in its relentless probing of the human or inhuman, motives that actuate the financial lords of creation." Near Fine, slight fading to spine, in Very Good dust jacket, shelf wear, fading to spine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. The jacket is torn and marked.A few inscriptions.Pocket.A bit scribbled.Well bound.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Hardback: Fair Condition. Dust Jacket: No. Pages Bright, Clean And Unmarked. Binding Tight And Secure. Clean Covers, Minimal Wear. Inscription In Front Of Book Left By Previous Owner. Photograph Is Added By Selling Site And Not Ours, Therefore May Not Reflect This Edition Or Condition. Please Contact Us For Pictures If Desired.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. 1st Edition. First edition/printing. Book is in Fine condition and the jacket (in a protector) is in Very Good Plus condition. "Sugar in the Air: A Romance (1937), first of the two connected Charles Pry tales, is a notable and original Scientific Romance bitterly but wryly describing the conflicts which arise between scientific and commercial interests during experiments with artificial photosynthesis; eventually, Charles Pry develops a process to manufacture sugar from the air (or SUNSAP) in industrial quantities, but his inept bosses are outsmarted by another firm." [BS] Encyclopedia of SF, Internet edition. E. C. Large (illustrator).…

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Wrappers (Stapled). Condition: Good. First Edition. G+++. Stapled wrappers. Two 2" closed tear on back cover of spine. Color fold out map. Scarce book. With Large Color Fold-out Map (illustrator).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover in very good condition with a mylar wrapped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: no jacket present. The book is in good condition with a sturdy hardcover binding. The cover shows minor wear consistent with age, but the text block remains clean and intact. There is no dust jacket present. The pages are free from inscriptions, and there are no library markings.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. [iv] 229 pp. Light wear to the cloth cover, including heavier brown speckling around the spine, but the binding remains firm. Tanned appearance to the pages, with some foxing spots along the bottom edge of the textblock. Name neatly written to the front endpaper, but no further annotations or notes to the remaining pages. Size: 10" - 11" tall. Weight: 740g.…

Condition: Poor. Volume 174. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. With owner's inscription inside cover. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,800grams, ISBN.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First U.S. edition. Upper corner tips bumped, red top edge coloring faded and spotted in places, else a very good plus copy in gilt-stamped blue cloth; in the original illustrated dust jacket that is near fine showing only modest edge wear. Front flap price of $2.50 intact. Cover art by the author. Ernest Charles Large (1902-1976) was an English industrial chemist, writer, and plant scientist, best known for his book THE ADVANCE OF THE FUNGIi (1940). He wrote several novels of science fiction with SUGAR IN THE AIR being a near classic work considered by Clute and Nichols as "A notable and original science fiction novel." A fantastic satire on contemporary modern science in its application to "big business" as a young engineer invents a method of extracting sugar from the air and the resulting "wild riot of promoting" that follows. Also noted in Locke, Bleiler, Reginald, Stableford, Tuck, and Anatomy of Wonder.…

octavo green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 447pp + 8pp adverts, VG- (lacks fep, light bruising, light occassional foxing) in VG d/w (light wear and some tears to extremities, small chip at head of friont flap, mild discolouration, remnant of wrapper band still attached to front flap).

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, blind tooling to the front panel. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains 320 printed pages of text with 163 monochrome diagrams and 63 photographic plates throughout. Mottling to the front cover, softened spine ends, age darkened closed page edges and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. RADIO [Wireless Telephony]. …

paperback. Condition: Good.