The Star Seekers by Lesser, Milton - 1953

Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1953. 2nd Printing . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. High school library copy with library binding. Stamp on title page and bottom pages, pocket removed. Tape residue, inside covers, 3 stars front inside. Text very good.

Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1953. 1st edition. Hardcover. Good+/Good. Paul Calle, Alex Schomburg. 1st edition, 1953. A Good+ copy in a Good dust jacket. 8vo., 212 pp., bound in blue cloth with full color illustrated dust jacket, $2.00. Jacket has overall rubbing and chipping. Text is unmarked, binding is solid. Dust jacket is now protected in mylar sleeve. Stephen Marlowe (born Milton Lesser, August 7, 1928 in Brooklyn, New York, died February 22, 2008 (aged 79), in Williamsburg, Virginia) was an American author of science fiction, mystery novels, and fictional autobiographies of Goya, Christopher Columbus, Miguel de Cervantes, and Edgar Allan Poe.

Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1953. First Edition . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Library binding with dust jacket artwork on spine and front boards. Very well read, text good to very good. With stamps and pocket. Boards show wear, corner's bumped.

WiNSTON Book. Fine. Hardcover. FIRST. A NEAR FINE SECOND PRINTING IN DJ..

Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co., [1953]. 8vo. xi, [1], 212 pp. Illust. endpapers showing robots, flying saucers and spacesuits, & rockets by Schomburg. Blue publisher’s cloth, yellow lettering (spotting & staining to spine, fore-edges, some shelfwear), w/ d.j. cover art of generational starship by Paul Calle (slight wear), G-/NF copy. First edition, stated, of this Winston Science Fiction title describing the struggles of a Generation Starship adventure as humans attempt to settle Alpha Centauri planets. Lesser (1928-2008) would change his name to Stephen Marlowe, wrote under several pseudonyms, and also wrote thrillers, mysteries, and literary biographies.

G/G. Jacket in mylar. 1st edition. Browning around hinge area of both pastedowns, spine of jacket sunned, small chip to middle of rear panel

Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 212pp. Octavo [22 cm] Blue cloth covered boards with a yellow ink stamped title on the spine. Illustrated endpapers. The extremities are moderately bumped and rubbed, and the spine is slightly rolled. In the dust jacket, with light rubbing and chipping to the extremities. Jacket Design by Paul Calle. Endpaper Design by Alex Schomburg. Milton Lesser wrote science fiction, mystery novels, and fictional autobiographies of Christopher Columbus, Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes, and Edgar Allan Poe.

Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company. Good in Good dust jacket. 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. 212 p. 22 cm. Sound binding in navy cloth-covered boards with yellow, stamped spine titles. Spine slightly cocked. Staining to both boards. Corners lightly worn. Text block edges are tanned. There is a price erasure on rear endpaper. Inside pages are clean and unmarked with light toning. Dustjacket has heavy wear to the spine ends, with shallow chips on either side of the head of the spine. Tiny chips to spine tail and corners of jacket. The spine is faded. Folds have wear including creases and a tiny hole to the spine edge. Jacket is stretched so that title does not line up on the middle of the spine. Rubbed. Price clipped. A title in the Winston Science Fiction series for juvenile readers. Jacket designed by Paul Callé and endpapers designed by Alex Schomburg. .

Philadelpha: The John C. Winston Co., 1953. Hardcover; 212 pages. Dark blue cloth hardcovers with yellow titles on spine. Decent amount of rubbing and wear to covers. B&w graphical endpapers, clean. The pages are yellowed but flat and unmarked. GOOD. Jacket is paper, PC, chipped around edges, wrapped in mylar cover. GOOD.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good.

E-281: John C. Winston Company. Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket. 1959. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. The John C. Winston Company, Philadelphia PA. 1953. Ix, 212 pgs. Decorated endpapers. First Edition/First Printing. Paul Calle designed DJ has shelf-wear present (spine nds lightly chipped, spine lightly faded and sunned) Bound in blue cloth boards with yellow titles present to the spine. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. When man tackles the first really long journey - across twenty-six trillion miles of uncharted space - to the nearest star, it will take him two hundred years to complete the flight. Not until the sixth generation nears maturity will the starship reach its destination. Around this fascinating theme, Milton Lesser has woven a tale of the first starship's final days of flight. He pictures the ship as a hollowed-out asteroid composed of four… Read More