Books published by publisher The John C. Winston

Tales from Shakespeare, Charles and Mary Lamb, illustrated by Frank Godwin, J. C. Winston, Pub., Chicago, 1924, 323 pages. Description; green boards with gold title and publisher's name on spine, pastedown illustration on front board. Twelve interior full page illustrations, the frontispiece and three others are full color, eight are black and white. Condition; Very good. Bright and tight with no interior writing and a bright cover on the boards. Spine is not sunned but the gold has lost its luster and there are several hand soiling marks along the edge. The front pastedown is lifting and is creased on the upper front corner, light rubbing to the edges, lower point starting but still a strong, straight book. No DJ.

From Wilson Science Fiction blog: When Bruce Robinson's father decided to take the job offered him on the Moon, his space-loving son saw an end to his drab life as an earthbound high-school student. What neither Bruce nor the other three members of the Robinson family could foresee was that within two weeks they'd be the world's leading experts on life upon the planet Venus. To more experienced interplanetary travelers than the Robinsons, the actions of the crew of the gleaming Moon-bound space ship, AURORA, would have seemed suspicious. But the crew's interest in the mysterious government cargo, stowed in the ship's hold, did not cause the unsuspecting family any serious concern. Not until the captain and his mate abandoned the crippled AURORA, as she lurched through the Venusian mists to a certain crash landing, did the Robinsons awake to their peril. Philip Latham has written a vivid and detailed novel charged with mystery and suspense about an average American family stranded on the weird and unexplored planet of Venus. Unsure of the planet's oxygen supply, tortured by ultra-sonic waves emitted by man-size batlike creatures, faced by carnivorous plants, the Robinsons are the focal point of a novel unsurpassed in the science fiction field for its frightening and powerful reality. In an electrifying climax, solutions to strange and forbidding paradoxes top a tale of courage and unassuming bravery.

Lovely book and dust jacket. Clean moss green cloth boards with clean, unworn color paste-on illustration on cover by Clara M. Burd, with gold line border. Gold lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with clean illustrated endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Full color frontispiece illustration (same as cover), additional black and white illustrations, all by Clara Burd. 253 pages. Clean bright color illustrated jacket has a few tiny edge nicks, a little corner wear; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A really nice collectible quality book from John C. Winston Company's "The Children's Bookshelf" series.