Zero Eighty Being Lifetime Doings by Pseudoman Akkad (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Scientific Publishing Co. 1937 1st ed. 283pp. Very good with soiling and ring stain to covers. Previous owner name and date to front free endpaper. Light toning to page edges and margins. Lacking the jacket. clph.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, stated. Hardcover. Condition: Very good/near fine. Light brown buckram cloth, lettered in black to the spine. Full color frontispiece. Illustrated.Sharp corners; tight binding. Pages age toned; 1940 newspaper clipping pasted to front paste down with ink annotation. Additional laid in 1945 newspaper clipping between front paste down and ffep with subsequent stain. Dust jacket blurb pasted neatly to ffep. Reader annotations pages 90 and 101, otherwise clean and unmarked. pp+ 283 pages 9.25"x6.25"w. (see images) ".While the narrative is pure fiction.All scientific material has been worked out in considerable detail, and is believed to be entirely consonant with current proved facts and well tested technical knowledge.".…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illus. including color frontis; photos, 9.5 x 6", tan cloth, 280pp + pp, covers rubbed and unevenly toned, extremities bumped, rear inner hinge cracking, pp toned (endpapers unevenly so), foredge of textblock soiled, in a very worn, spine-torn/creased, browned and soiled dustjacket. FIRST EDITION. Sci-Fi novel disguised as a scientific autobiography from the future. Pseudoman takes off for his trip around the moon on July 28, 1961.…

Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii [ix-xvi] [1] 2-280 [281-283] [284-288: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], fifteen inserted plates including color frontispiece, diagrams in text, original tan cloth, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. A very technical fictional account of the invention of a spacecraft and circumnavigation of the Moon by the inventor of the Ajax-Northrup high-frequency induction furnace. The experiments begin in 1945 and the flight occurs in 1961. Interesting illustrations. "The book, a semi-fictional autobiography, contains a great deal about the author's experiments with solenoid guns, including photographs, and a résumé of the theory of space travel which Dr. Northrup wanted to accomplish by means of rockets initially accelerated in large solenoid guns" (Ley). Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-45. Bailey, Pilgrims Through Space and Time, pp. 124-25. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 179. Bleiler (1978), p. 162. Reginald 11927. Ciancone 187. Ley, Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel, revised edition, 1957, p. 517. A bright, very good copy in very good pictorial dust jacket with chip from upper spine end, ink stains at lower edge of spine panel, and clipped price. A fairly nice example of a striking jacket (which reproduces the color frontispiece on the front panel) seldom found in superior condition. (#158533).…

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Illustrated First Edition. Octavo. Original tan cloth with black lettering to spine. Imaginative autobiography of the life, inventions, and reflections of a scientist living from 1920 to 2000 A.D. Written by Edwin Fitch Northrup, an electrothermic engineer born in Syracuse, NY, under the pseudonym Dr. Akkad Pseudoman. Color frontispiece. Very good, in good dustjacket with minimal loss but light creasing and wear along edges; prior owner's pencil signature and information on front free endpaper.…

Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii [ix-xvi] [1] 2-280 [281-283] [284-288: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], fifteen inserted plates including color frontispiece, diagrams in text, original tan cloth, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. A very technical fictional account of the invention of a spacecraft and circumnavigation of the Moon by the inventor of the Ajax-Northrup high-frequency induction furnace. The experiments begin in 1945 and the flight occurs in 1961. Interesting illustrations. "The book, a semi-fictional autobiography, contains a great deal about the author's experiments with solenoid guns, including photographs, and a résumé of the theory of space travel which Dr. Northrup wanted to accomplish by means of rockets initially accelerated in large solenoid guns" (Ley). Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-45. Bailey, Pilgrims Through Space and Time, pp. 124-25. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 179. Bleiler (1978), p. 162. Reginald 11927. Ciancone 187. Ley, Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel, revised edition, 1957, p. 517. Several short penciled marginalia in the text, else a fine copy in very good pictorial dust jacket with light wear and several short closed tears at edges, tiny chip from upper right corner of front panel, and some dust soiling to spine and rear panels. A nice example of a striking jacket (which reproduces the color frontispiece on the front panel) seldom found in superior condition. (#146493).…

hardcover. Condition: Good. Signed. First Edition. First edition / printing. Signed and inscirbed by author. No jacket. VG+. I note every flaw I find, so buy with confidence.