Blonde Goddess by R P J Richards (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Undated, believed first edition in Fair only condition.DJ has been glued to the boards as is usual so difficult to establish condition.corners & spine are bumped, DJ is creased with small chips and losses in places, text is sporadically foxed.inscribed and signed by the author to the fep. Inscribed by Author(s).

HARDCOVER. Dust Jacket Condition: chipping, cover wear, Good. Hardcover edition. 237pp, small octavo. dj glued to boards as issued, cover wear, tight binding, tape rust to endpapers, clean throughout, Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. London: First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. Cloth boards with clean bright dustjacket which is glued to boards, front and rear flap only are free (the usual case with this particular book & publisher). Not price clipped. Slight edge wear. Pages and edges are clean and bright, no names, writing or bookplates. 237 pgs. 8vo. Fiction.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Ken-Pax Pub. Co., Ltd. January 1948 Binding: Hardcover good clean copy in good dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Light wear; the pages have some discoloring, staining; a solid binding; musty odor. The jacket is present but stuck to the covers; some discoloring, chips and tears. Front flap is unclipped, calls this an "occult novel". No date. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 168624.

Ex-Lowenstein's department store lending library copy. Probable first edition (no direct statement upon copyright page). 237 pages. Hardcover; H 19cm x L 12.5cm. Dust jacket edges trimmed fractionally shorter than boards; tape residue on front and rear flaps, spine heel chipped, mild soiling to white rear panel; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Dark olive boards, mild stains to boards with black adhesive residue along top and bottom board edges from removal of the company's plastic dj protector, slender and small patches of surface scuffing occur to boards and along joints, spine lettering quite faded. Moderate foxing upon top edge with mild foxing upon fore-edge; soiling and foxing upon preliminary and terminal leaves with tape residue also on front and rear endpapers; "Lowenstein's Lending Library" stamped in red upon front free endpaper but with no other such marks readily apparent after a quick perusal. Interior pages are clean. B. Lowenstein, Inc., aka Lowenstein's, was a Memphis, Tennessee department store and, as was common in the 1940s and 1950s, operated several lending libraries among its various store locations; hence the related ffep stamp and associated blemishes. THE BLONDE GODDESS is an uncommon book of Rosicrucian science fiction set in the near future in which Richards describes an unknown Himalayan utopian "lost" civilization that arises to offer solutions to the world's political problems. Bibliographical references: Sargent BRITISH & AMERICAN UTOPIAN LITERATURE 1516-1975, page 235; Reginald SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY LITERATURE #12213.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Good in good dust jacket. Dustwrapper glued to books panels, dust jacket shows fading/rubbing/scuffing and some light soiling.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 237 pp; Book has no names, pages unmarked and age toned, endpapers and top foredge lightly foxed, front cover bowed. Dust jacket is stuck to the covers due to moisture, rubbed and top edge with light wear, light corner wear, white back panel slightly soiled. A nice, clean, tight and attractive book.

Condition: Very Good. Ken-Pax Publishing Co 1/0/00 Binding: Unknown dj in mylar price unclipped; Occult lost race novel of an unknown land north of the Himalayas and west of Tibet; partially set in the near future when the wisdom of this land suggests solutions to the world's political problems. ownr's stamp PublishPla.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. [1948]. Signed by the Author on the ffe, "RPJR to EMR December 1947". An occult novel. In the Foreword the author states "Part One is mainly written around my experiences during sleep-state when me visited the Himalaya country while outside of the body." Full cloth, two-colour jacket, 10/- price to flap. Book Condition: Good: Firm square signed copy, very minor rubbing to extremities. / DJ Condition: Fair to Good: Dust jacket has been pasted to the book covers. Bright cover, slightly soiled back, short chips and creases. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair in Good dust jacket. First Edition. London: Ken-Pax Publishing Co Ltd 1948. Hardcover. First edition. Locke [A Spectrum of Fantasy: Volume Two, page 94 "Occult 'novel', although with very little story, being composed mainly of lectures and broadcasts. The first half is technically lost race (A Shangri-La type community in Tibet), the second a series of broadcast speeches supposedly delivered in 1950-1. A decidedly religious bias. Mainly composed in the period 1930-1933"]. Reginald 12213. 237 pages. Dust Wrapper pasted to the exterior of the book as frequently reported on other copies so perhaps done by the publisher, Very Good copy the text is tight and clean in Dust Wrapper with scattered light edgewear plus dust-soiling to the rear panel. clphE.