Lowther george (15 Ergebnisse)

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

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Joe Shuster (illustrator).

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

Soft Cover. Zustand: 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. Zustand: 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. Zustand: 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. Zustand: 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.…

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.

Zustand: 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. Zustand: 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.…

Original Cloth. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Cocked; cover corners minutely worn; endpapers darkened.

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'.…

Zustand: Acceptable. Random House New York 1942 $NRP. red cloth illustrated boards rubbed. to edge of boards age toned. corners bumped with fraying. snags to crown and heel of spine. hinge cracked at half title page and rfep. binding shaken. some hand soiling to pages.

First edition of the first novelization of Superman, finely bound. George Lowther was the first author to follow Jerry Siegel in writing a Superman story. In this role, Lowther provided many of the now-familiar details of Superman's birth and early life. The book features new stories as well as original illustrations by Superman's co-creator Joe Shuster. Octavo (264 x 147 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in crimson morocco, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial onlay on front cover after the original cover, twin rule to turn-ins gilt, patterned endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy.…