The Lost City by John Blaine 1947 Book 2 in The Rick Brant Electronic Adventure Vintage BookVintage Book

This is The Lost City by John Blaine, Book 2 in the Rick Brant Electronic Adventure series, a 1947 Grosset & Dunlap hardcover with its original dust jacket.

The dust jacket has a few rips and chips at the edges and the pages are slightly yellow from age, with no rips, writing, or tears inside, as the photos show.

Rick and Scotty sail off to Asia with Drs. Weiss and Zircon to bounce radar waves off the moon and communicate with Spindrift. They soon become entangled with saboteurs and set out after a lost city said to be the final resting place of Genghis Khan.

Details

  • Item: Hardcover book with dust jacket
  • Title: The Lost City, A Rick Brant Electronic Adventure
  • Author: John Blaine
  • Illustrator: Not confirmed from photos
  • Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap, New York
  • Publication Year: 1947
  • Edition and Printing: Not confirmed from photos
  • Format and Binding: Hardcover, tan cloth boards with a lightning bolt logo
  • Dust Jacket: Yes, pictorial jacket. The front flap lists the Rick Brant Science-Adventure Stories
  • Pages: Not confirmed from photos
  • Genre: Boys' science adventure series fiction
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: Not confirmed from photos
  • Dimensions: 8x5x2

Condition Grade: Good

Positives

  • Graded Good: Complete and usable, with clear signs of use, and every flaw is named in this listing.
  • No rips, writing, or tears in the pages.
  • Map endpapers of Spindrift Island.
  • Black and white frontispiece facing the title page.
  • Pictorial dust jacket present.

Issues / Wear

  • A few rips in the dust jacket.
  • Chipping at the jacket corners and edges, including the top corner of the back panel.
  • Pages are slightly yellow from age.

This 1947 Grosset & Dunlap copy has its Rick Brant jacket and the Spindrift Island map endpapers, and it belongs on a shelf of boys' science adventure series. If it's the right copy for you, it's ready to come home.

  • Near Fine: Close to new. Any flaw is small and named above.
  • Very Good: Light use. Every flaw is named above, and none of them get in the way of reading or display.
  • Good: Complete and usable, with clear signs of use. Every flaw is named above.
  • Fair: Heavy wear or damage, named above. A reading or working copy, not a display piece.

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