Lowther George (35 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. In green cloth. No jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. Like new. Preserved in a plastic sleeve. Joe Shuster (illustrator).

Condition: good. The dust jacket has some heavy wear. Joe Shuster (illustrator).

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Lowther, George. SUPERMAN - Based on the character created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Los Angeles, California: Kassel Books (1979).Possible first edition. (Additional printings not listed.). A historic reproduction of the 1942 novel. Illustrated, including cover art, by Joe Shuster.Includes 33 interior sketches with five full pages in black-&-white and four full page color illustrations. 215pp, 8vo (5 1/4" wide x 8 1/2" tall)perfect-bound softcover book. Unmarked and tightly bound. WAREHOUSE FIND! In shrinkwrap for your protection. Fine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. This is a reproduction jacket, Jacket has some chipping and old tape repairs to bottom edge of front cover, but has been placed in a mylar sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. BOOK, SPINE SLIGHTLY FADED, SMALL FRAY ON MIDDLE OF SPINE, CORNERS SLIGHTLY BUMPED, COVERS RUBBED. PAGE 25 HAS 2" x 1" PIECE MISSING ON MARGIN (DOES NOT EFFECT TEXT). CURLEY BRADLEY AS "RADIO'S TOM MIX".

hardcover. Condition: As New. Hardcover. Near fine / near fine dust jacket. For any additional information or pictures, please inquire. Joe Shuster (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. The book is in Near Fine condition . Clean pages. The dust jacket a couple tiny nicks on fore-edge, will be placed in a in a new, clear, protective mylar wrapper. Ships in sturdy cardboard packaging. Booksellers since 1997. [101]. Joe Shuster (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: FINE CONDITION. Dust Jacket Condition: FINE DUST JACKET. First Edition, First Printing Thus. // NO REMAINDER MARK// NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKS OF ANY KIND (no names or inscriptions, no bookplate, no underlining, etc) // NOT PRICE CLIPPED// NEW MYLAR COVER// some tiny rub marks at the corners, otherwise in as new condition. Joe Shuster (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Gift inscription.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Facsimile of the 1942 novel, with 33 interior sketches, five full page B&W iIlustrations and four full page color iIlustrations. A scarce edition. Size: Octavo. Joe Schuster (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. The cover shows some edgewear with soiling and rubbing. The binding is sound. Presentation bookplate signed by the author and Curley Bradley who played Tom Mix. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Publisher's cloth. Cloth edge of front board mildly stained, spine ends/bottom corners bumped/rubbed, boards slightly curved inwards. Firm binding. The DJ in mylar is chipped, creased, rubbed, with some pulls, tears with tape repairs to verso. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover, bound in green cloth with black lettering (faded) on cover and spine. Binding is splotchily faded. DJ present, but faded and chipped. Title page undated and copyright page dated 1935. 128 pages. This copy is from the collection of George Lowther, with his name written on the front endpaper. On the rear endpaper, Lowther has outlined the 14 plot points of a story -- Truck Boston to NY. Benton - Giant negro -- Colt's Office. Interstate Truck -- etc/etc. Lowther was a writer in the earliest days of television and golden era of radio. He wrote countless episodes of Superman for the radio, as well as a Superman novel in 1942. He also worked on Dick Tracy and other comic-to-radio/tv crossover shows. We have several books from Lowther's collection in other listings beside this one on the shelf - maybe you'd like to buy them all? Please email with questions or to request photos. If you see a photo beside this listing, please be aware that it s an ABE Stock Photo (whatever that is) and not a photo of this book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover, bound in blue cloth with gold lettering (faded) on cover and spine. Binding is faded and corners a bit bumped. Title page and copyright page dated 1946. 381 pages. This copy is from the collection of George Lowther, with his name written on the front endpaper. Front endpapers have a dark rectangle ghosted from a newspaper clipped that was squeezed in there for a generation (but is now gone). Lowther was a writer in the earliest days of television and golden era of radio. He wrote countless episodes of Superman for the radio, as well as a Superman novel in 1942. He also worked on Dick Tracy and other comic-to-radio/tv crossover shows. We have several books from Lowther's collection in other listings beside this one on the shelf - maybe you'd like to buy them all? Please email with questions or to request photos. If you see a photo beside this listing, please be aware that it s an ABE Stock Photo (whatever that is) and not a photo of this book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover with most of DJ. Maroon cloth spine with faded gold lettering. Pictorial paper over boards. Binding is faded and corners a bit bumped. Original DJ is in pieces, but most of it is present. Title page and copyright page dated 1928. 358 pages. Pages a bit toned from age, slight crack at gutter on title page. This copy is from the collection of George Lowther, with his name and 'Ex Libris Carissimis' written on the title page. The phrase comes from a Morley book of the same name. Lowther was a writer in the earliest days of television and golden era of radio. He wrote countless episodes of Superman for the radio, as well as a Superman novel in 1942. He also worked on Dick Tracy and other comic-to-radio/tv crossover shows. We have several books from Lowther's collection in other listings beside this one on the shelf - maybe you'd like to buy them all? Please email with questions or to request photos. If you see a photo beside this listing, please be aware that it's an ABE Stock Photo (whatever that is) and not a photo of this book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The Collier quick and easy guide to TV writing. 1963. George Francis Lowther. Collier, 1963. First ed. 127p. oversized trade paperback, covers bumped/scuffed, binding tight, text clean/unmarked .60.00.

Hardcover. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed. Joe Shuster (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st. 1st printing; olive green c w/black spine titles; 169 clean, unmarked pages.Signed by author and by Curley Bradley (Tom Mix) on presentation plate laid in on flyleaf. B/W Photos (illustrator). Signed By Notable & By Author.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Joe Shuster (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. First Edition. Book has olive green boards with black titles. Moderate shelf wear. There is a publisher's bookplate on the front free endpaper which has the facsimile signatures of Curley Bradley (Radio) and George Lowther on it. 169 pages with b/w still photographs. The colorful dust jacket has over all wear but the front panel is gorgeous. The dust jacket has not been price clipped, $1.50. Very scarce in dust jacket. Selling quality books for over 35 years.…

Illustr by Joe Shuster, 9 x 6, red cloth, 215 pp, covers very worn and creased (from super-human strength?), inner hinges cracked, some staining, contents loose and toned. A rather sorry copy of a rather collectible book.

Original Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Cocked; cover corners minutely worn; endpapers darkened. Two signatures bound out of order and pages with those signatures are out of order. Also, the text on those pages begins in the top margin.

Condition: Good. 1936 No dust wrapper. Sticker to front cover,Slight damage to top of spine.text unmarked. Hardback. 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.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. Not Indicated. Jacket has several edge tears.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Boards have light shelf rubbing with scuffing and bumping as well as soiling. Binding is lightly shaken with a cracked and exposed gutter. Endpages have light age-toning and smudging. Page edges have moderate age-toning with scuffing and smudging. Interior pages are age-toned and smudged. Secure packaging for safe delivery.…

Condition: Very good minus. No jacket. Copyright 1942, first edition. Bound in finely woven red cloth and stamped brightly in black with drawing of superman on the front boards. Name in ink at the top of the front endpaper. The corners are worn and frayed and the front boards are soiled with a few faint splotches. With several full color plates throughout. The clean spine has some light fraying to the top and bottom ends. Striking Illustrations by Joe Shuster (in color and black and white) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. No Jacket. xx, 215 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. ; red cloth with blue text and decorations. Some spotting to covers. Spine cocked. Once he becomes aware of his super powers, Clark Kent uses them to fight the forces of evil. Shuster, Joe (illustrator).

2pp, folio. On a single leaf. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn, with thin strip of paper from mount adhering to inner edge of first page. Folded twice. Good firm signature of the king ('George R.') at top left of first page, which has a thin mourning border. Left hand margin of first page with embossed £1 10s tax stamp. Written out ('By His Majesty's Command') in a secretarial hand, and addressed 'To The Husband for taking up all Goods consigned from Barbadoes and the Leeward Islands on Account of the Duties of Four Pounds and one Half Pounds per Centum'. Signed at end by three of the seven Lords Commissioners of the Treasury: 'N Vansittart | Lowther | G C H Somerset'. Summarised at foot of second page: 'A. Dickie Esqre. £76 . 18 . 9 Pensions to late Servants of Younger Princes Quarter ended 5th. April 1820'. Thirty-eight line document, directing payment to 'Andrew Dickie Esquire or to his Assigns the Sum of Seventy Six Pounds Eighteen Shillings and Nine Pence', to enable him to pay allowances 'to the late Servants of our Dearly Beloved Brother William Henry Duke of Clarence, our late Dearly Beloved Brother Edward Duke of Kent and our Dearly Beloved Brothers Ernest Duke of Cumberland, Frederick Augustus Duke of Sussex, and Frederick Adolphus Duke of Cambridge'. Dickie was a confidential clerk and later partner in the banking firm of Messrs Coutts and Co., which handled the king's Privy Purse accounts. From the distinguished autograph collection of the psychiatrist Richard Alfred Hunter (1923-1981), whose collection of 7000 works relating to psychiatry is now in Cambridge University Library. Hunter and his mother Ida Macalpine had a particular interest in the illness of King George III, and their book 'George III and the Mad Business' (1969) suggested the diagnosis of porphyria popularised by Alan Bennett in his play 'The Madness of George III'.…

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 656 in this important series, this is perhaps the most desired of all the Armed Services Editions and, perhaps, the rarest title, the story is based on the cartoon character created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Cover creases, else very good.…