Paul laune illust (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. B & W drawings; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 213 pages; 1941 Grosset & Dunlap. HC/DJ. 1st edition, early printing. Illustrated by Paul Laune. Original jacket advertising this as the sole Al Avery title in Grosset & Dunlap's Air Combat Stories series. Soundly bound in patterned green composite boards with pictorial title design in blue. Gift inscription penned to pictorial front endpage. Frontis by Laune on plain paper. No wartime notice. Page 55/56 has a 2 inch long chip from the front edge but without loss to text. Short closed tear to the foot of the title page. Color pictorial dust jacket bright and clean with light rubbing and a chip and a pair of short closed tears to edges. VG-/VG. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Fifth Printing. B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 212 pages; 1941 13th printing of Hardy Boys #16. Snugly bound and very neat in original issue cream spine dust jacket with original Laune jacket art showing Frank perched in a tree looking through a window at night. Thicker style book printed on heavier paper is tight in binding style #6 of light tan/brown cloth with squiggle pebbling and title design in dark brown. 20 HB titles on front flap; 19 in list at rear. 20 Spotlight for Boys titles on rear jacket cover with 19 Western Stories on rear flap. Handsome and very neat with publisher's black top stain uniform and unfaded. Dust jacket has several tiny nicks and short closed edge tears along with a dime sized surface abrasion to the lower left corner of the front panel - but is uniformly bright and clean. Handsome early copy in the original jacket design. (Carpentieri 1941A - 5) VG++/VG.…