LOT #58929 |
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Three Rinehart & Company Books, including:... (Total: 3 Items)
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Three Rinehart & Company Books, including: Richard Carrington. Mermaids and Mastodons: A Book of Natural & Unnatural History. With Illustrations by Maurice Wilson and Others. New York: Rinehart& Company, Inc., [1957]. Octavo. xvi, 251 pages. Fifteen illustrated plates including the frontispiece and several additional illustrations throughout the text. Index. Publisher's black shelf back over tan boards. The spine is lettered in white. Illustrated dust jacket in fuchsia, tan, white, and black. Minor rubbing to the jacket, very small closed tears to the head and foot of the jacket spine, a few closed tears to the head of the jacket. Altogether a very good copy. Richard Carrington divided this delightful book into four sections: Behind the Legends, The Stone Testament, Living Links with the Past, and The Death of Races. Carrington, a highly respected anthropologist and archaeologist also authored A Guide to Earth History. [and:] Walter Karig. Zotz! With Drawings by the Author. New York, Toronto: Rinehart & Company, Inc., [1947]. Octavo. xiv, 268 pages. Publisher's blue boards with the spine lettered in black and white. Blue, white, and black illustrated dust jacket designed by Walter Karig. Some rubbing to the jacket, a few closed tears to the edges of the jacket, sunned jacket spine, a small notation on the front pastedown endpaper. Altogether a very good copy. Walter Karig (1898 - 1956) authored military history works as well as fictional novels, including this creative work which was made into a movie in 1962 by the director William Castle. In this satirical story Dr. John Jones, an archaeologist and linguist, deciphered an ancient inscription and thus gained the dreadfully powerful ability to kill anything he pointed to while saying "zotz!" [and:] Frank Norris. Nutro 29: A Romance. New York, Toronto: Rinehart & Company, [1950]. Publisher's red boards with the spine lettered in silver and black. Dust jacket illustrated in black, teal, and white, designed by Robert Ritter. Some rubbing to the jacket, very few tiny closed tears to the edges of the jacket. Altogether a very good copy. Frank Callan Norris authored this intriguing and satirical work regarding a seemingly harmless food pill invented by Dr. Thomas Hightower and Dr. Murch. However, it is quickly apparent that this little pill made from seaweed and sunshine could be the source of catastrophic changes.Auction Info
2008 June Grand Format Books & Manuscripts Auction #683 (go to Auction Home page)
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