Danger: Dinosaurs!

Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co., 1953. First Edition [stated] and first printing. Octavo, green-blue cloth, 210 pp.; pictorial jacket, correct with twenty titles on the back. Iconic endpaper designs of course are by Alex Schomburg; in this case, as with several others in the series, Schomburg also executed the memorable dustjacket. Very Good condition book, with shelfwear at edges and the standard but pleasing toning of the pages, in an about very good price-clipped jacket, rubbed and with extremity wear, but no chips (see scans). Tight, complete, clean and, though somewhat worn, still a solid example of an inexpensively produced, always-actually-read-by-the-original-owner title. If you're here - and you are - you know the Winston series of juvenile sci-fi novels, a 37-title series issued between 1952 and 1961. The first editions are not common, Danger: Dinosaurs !, from early in the series, has long been known to be one of the scarcest, a work by Richard Marsten, one of the many pseudonyms of famed writer/screenwriter Evan Hunter ("Evan Hunter" was itself a pseudonym, for the real guy, Salvatore Albert Lombino). L-43n