Five Against Venus

Author: Philip Latham, pseudonym of Robert Shirley Richardson
Hardcover edition with dust-jacket by Virgil Finlay and endpapers by Alex Schomburg
Published by The John C. Winston Company, Philadelphia, Toronto, February 1952, as part of the Winston Science Fiction set
[214 pages, Number of copies not known.]


Back of dust-jacket

Spine

Front of dust-jacket

Back of Board

Spine

Front of Board

The Winston Science Fiction set - also known as Winston Juvenile Science Fiction series - comprises 35 science fiction juvenile novels by famous science fiction authors and was published between 1952 and 1961. Five Against Venus is the only book in this series with a jacket illustration by Virgil Finlay. A second printing appeared in March 1956, and a third printing was released in July 1957.

The fourth printing - June 1958 (price $2.50)- has blue boards.


Back and Spine of Board
fourth printing

Front and Spine of Board
fourth printing