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Published by Penguin Books, 1987
ISBN 10: 0140080880ISBN 13: 9780140080889
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Book
Paperback. Condition: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.
Published by IndoEuropeanPublishing.com, 2011
ISBN 10: 160444357XISBN 13: 9781604443578
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Good.
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Published by e-artnow, 2021
ISBN 10: 8027341175ISBN 13: 9788027341177
Seller: Ria Christie Collections, Uxbridge, United Kingdom
Book Print on Demand
Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND Book; New; Fast Shipping from the UK. No. book.
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Published by Bibliotech Press, 2020
ISBN 10: 1618957988ISBN 13: 9781618957986
Seller: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Condition: New.
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Published by Bibliotech Press, 2012
ISBN 10: 1618950460ISBN 13: 9781618950468
Seller: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Condition: New.
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Published by The Science Fiction Book Club, UK, 1953
Seller: Shiny Owl Books, Mona Vale, NSW, Australia
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Size: 12mo (7 to 8 inches). Item Type: Book. Text body is clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine slightly faded. Mild uniform browning. Previous owner's name in ink. Minor marks and wear to book.
Published by Bibliotech Press, 2020
ISBN 10: 1618957996ISBN 13: 9781618957993
Seller: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Published by Methuen, 1932
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
4th edition. 4th & cheaper edition, in green cloth with black lettering & rules. Page fore-edge yellowed & a little foxed; cloth on spine discoloured, with wear at head & foot, & along joints; a little loss of colour on boards, with light wear to edges & corners Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket).
Published by Createspace Independent Pub, 2015
ISBN 10: 1512072001ISBN 13: 9781512072006
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
Book Print on Demand
Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 226 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.51 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.
Published by Methuen, London, 1931, Second edition, ,, 1931
Seller: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. hardback, 8vo, 355pp, 8pp adverts, edges browned and scattered foxing, otherwise clean and sound, no inscriptions, blue cloth gilt, rubbed, some soiling on covers, Good / no dustwrapper.
Published by London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1931
Seller: Old Books O'Mac, Prescott, AZ, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Second Edition, stated. xi; 356 pps.; 7.25 x 5.25" w. Navy blue binding with white hand-printed letters on spine. Amateurly, (too) tightly, but effectively rebound in cloth material similar to the original but does not lay completely flat. Crack on front pastedown is readhered. Front pastedown extends a bit past fore edge. Negligible shelfwear. Some foxing within text and edges. Age toned pages with no markings. Unique and uncommon edition. "A work of unprecedented scale in the genre, it describes the history of humanity from the present onwards across two billion years and eighteen distinct human species, of which our own is the first. The book employs a narrative conceit that, under subtle inspiration, the novelist has unknowingly been dictated a channelled text from the last human species." / Wikipedia.
Published by Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, New York, 1931
First Edition
First U.S. edition. First U.S. edition of this classic of science fiction from Stapledon, in the striking Arthur Hawkins dust jacket. Currey pg 467. 8vo, 371pp. Publisher's tan cloth, spine lettered in black (B binding) in illustrated jacket by Arthur Hawkins. Boards toned and smudged, some scuffing to spine else a very good copy in a complete jacket, with both a partial and full split down spine, toning and soiling, and some chipping at spine ends.
Published by Published by Penguin Books Limited, London, 1937
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Third (first paperback) edition, first impression. Pelican Books A3. "LAST AND FIRST MEN and STAR MAKER soar far beyond the accepted limits of science fiction . Stapledon is the great classical example, the cold pitch of perfection as he turns scientific concepts into vast ontological epic prose poems, the ultimate SF writer." - Aldiss, Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction, p. 198. Satty and Smith A3.3.1. This paperback was issued with a dust jacket that is not present. Wrapper just a bit rubbed, mild tanning to text paper, a nearly fine copy. (#173427).
Published by Science Fiction Book Club, 1953
Seller: PONCE A TIME BOOKS, SANTA BARBARA, CA, U.S.A.
0 Very good in very good dust jacket. book is fine but for some expected mild general toning, dustjacket has light shelfwear but no tears.
Published by London: Methuen & Co., [1930]., 1930
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
First Edition
8vo. pp. xi, 355. cloth (edges rubbed with some fraying, previous owner s signature on front free endpaper). First Edition.
Published by Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, New York, 1931
Seller: Space Age Books LLC, Conroe, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. This is the first USA edition, in the Currey "A" binding ("Purple cloth, spine lettered in gold".) "FIRST PUBLISHED IN AMERICA, 1931" on its copyright page, and a "FOREWORD TO THE AMERICAN EDITION" on page v. This 92 year old book is surprisingly in good condition. Its binding is sound and square, with a very shallow crease in the top of its spine. The gilt titles on its spine are faded, but still readable. Its spine ends are lightly worn, and its cover corners are lightly bumped. The cloth on its covers is rubbed, with some light wear on its edges. A few pages have small light stains in the margins, but otherwise the pages are unworn and unmarked. Its dust jacket, now protected by a removable mylar cover, is substantially whole, and also in good condition, presenting particularly well on its front and spine. The top and bottom 1/4" of its spine are missing, and there is a red stain across its back bottom left corner. All of the folds have wear and some tiny chipping, and the front flap's bottom corner is clipped. I will ship this book in a moisture proof zip-loc bag, padded in bubble wrap, inside a sturdy box to assure it reaches its new owner in the same condition as my description.
Published by Methuen & Co., London, UK, 1930
Seller: Karl Theis, Torrance, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION 1930, TEXT UNMARKED, SMALL AMOUNT OF FOXING, DARK BLUE BOARDS WITH GILT LETTERING ON SPINE, HINGES TIGHT BOARDS UNDAMAGED.
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd, London, 1930
Seller: North Books: Used & Rare, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. First Edition, First Impression. 5 x 7.5in. xi. 355pp. 8pp., ads. Publisher's cloth boards. FAIR only in Fine/As New facsimile dust jacket. The book itself shows the edges shelf worn, slight furrowing of the cloth, a split down the cloth at the hinges, front and back hinge repaired, former owner name at the front endpaper, endpapers slightly toned, otherwise the binding is strong and the text is clean and unmarked. The facsimile dust jacket is flawless. As pictured.
Published by Methuen, 1930
Seller: P Rulton Rare Books, Leominster, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardback 1st ed 1st printing. xi, 355 pp no ads. Bound in blue cloth with gilt titles the book is in very good condition. There is a small nick on the spine and a small name on the front end paper.
Published by Methuen, London, 1930
Seller: Graver & Pen Rare Books, Midland, MI, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First edition. A sharp, near fine copy. No signatures, no bookplates. First issue with ads date 630.
Published by Methuen, London., 1930
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First edition. With the adverts at the rear. Octavo. pp xii, 355. A hugely ambitious work of speculative fiction and a classic of its kind.One corner just a little bruised. Near fine. No dustwrapper. A bright copy.
Published by Methuen & Co Ltd, London, 1930
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 355pp + xi prelims. Dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine. Shelf wear to cloth at top and tail of spine. Slight wear to front spine hinge and corners. Untrimmed and light toning to fore edge and lower page edges. Spotting to title and contents pages. Slight crease to corner of rear past down. Tightly bound with five Time Scales Diagrams in place. No inscriptions.
Published by Methuen, London, 1930
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Book First Edition
Blue Cloth. Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. First Edition, First Issue. Xi, 355 Pp + 8 Pp Catalog At Rear. First Edition, An Attractive, Bright Very Good + Copy With The First State Of The 8 Pages Of Ads At The Rear, Dated 6/30. Previous Owners Name (Spencer) In Pencil With 11/17/30 Date On First Front Free Endpaper.
Published by Methuen, [1930], 1930
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
First Edition
8vo., First Edition; navy cloth, boards framed in blind, gilt back, fore-edge faintly spotted else a near fine copy. With personal bookplate on front paste-down. Without advertisements at end. Remarkably bright, crisp copy of a sci-fi classic; the work which launched Stapledon as a full-time author. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
Published by Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1931
First Edition
HARDCOVER. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 1st American edition. First American Edition, "First Published in America 1931" to copyright. 371pp, small octavo in beige/tan cloth. boards remain clean, faintest wear to fore-edge corner tips yet still sharp, tight binding, interior clean throughout, Fine. dj covers lightly worn yet clean, 0.5"x1" chip just above 'Last' and 0.5" chip above 'and' at top front edge, minor chipping to dj spine ends and top rear, mild wear along bottom 1" of rear cover, dj price-clipped, in mylar cover, Good+. 1st American Edition.
Publication Date: 1931
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Second edition. 8vo., original blue cloth. London, Methuen. With a loosely inserted ALS from the author, dated 3rd April 1931 to Canon Charles Raven, thanking him for kind remarks about the book: ?Also, as one who delights in birds, I recognise in you incomparably [sic] more entertaining ornithologist than myself? Raven was Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge and the author of a number of works on Theology and Natural History. Raven's ownership inscription on the front free endpaper. An excellent copy.
Published by Methuen, London, 1930
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. None (illustrator). First edition. An exceptionally lovely first edition of Olaf Stapledon' hugely influential science fiction novel, described by H. P. Lovecraft as a 'dizzying' and 'marvellous piece of imagination' A wonderful first edition of British philosopher Olaf Stapledon's important 1930 science fiction novel. The first issue of this work, with the eight page publisher's catalogue date '630' to the final leaf.Stapledon's work of speculative fiction provides a history of mankind from the present day to two billion years in the future, following a repetitive cycle in which numerous civilisations rise from and descending back into savagery over millions of years, before human life ultimately ends.With the inscription of Sydney Stonehaven to the front pastedown, dated 1931.This novel has been specifically referred to by famed literary figures including Brian Aldiss, C. S. Lewis, H. G. Wells and H. P Lovecraft, with Arthur C. Clarke stating 'no other book had a greater influence on my life'. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, excellent, with shelf wear to back strip head and tail. Contemporary inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Light spotting to publisher's advertisements, with pages otherwise clean and bright. Near Fine. book.
Published by JONATHAN CAPE/HARRISON SMITH PUB 1931, NEW YORK NY, 1931
Seller: JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS, BURLINGTON, WI, U.S.A.
First Edition
HARDCOVER. Condition: NEAR FINE IN VERY GOOD+ D.J. FIRST EDITION. CURREY'S "A" BINDING ISSUE IN PURPLE CLOTH WITH "JONATHAN CAPE/ HARRISON SMITH" ON THE SPINE PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL PURPLE CLOTH COVERED BOARDS WITH GILT SPINE TITLES, AND TOP EDGE STAINED GREY. OTHER THAN A SLIGHT COLOR-FADE TO THE SPINE THE BOOK IS FINE. D.J. HAS A COUPLE OF SHALLOW CHIPS AT THE TOP OF THE HAROLD HAWKINS ILLUSTRATED REMARKABLE FRONT PANEL, SOME MODERATE TONING TO THE REAR PANEL AND SOME MODEST SUUNNING TO THE SPINE PANEL WHICH HAS SOME SHALLOW CHIPPING AT THE TOP AND THE BOTTOM PARTIALY AFFECTING THE TITLE AND PUBLISHER NAME, BOTH SET VERY NEAR THE EDGES OF THE SPINE, AND NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. A VERY NICE COPY OF THE BOOK AND D.J. THE D.J. MUCH NICER THAN USUALLY ENCOUNTERED.
Published by Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, New York, 1931
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] vii-ix [x] xi [xii] xiii-xvi 1-371 [372: blank], original purple cloth, all panels ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, top edge stained black, fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. First U.S. edition, first binding. "The author's first work of fiction, inaugurating those anatomies of the future that blend romance and philosophy, spectacle and prophecy, cosmological in scope, teleological in tone, for which the term 'novel' is wholly misleading. With its telescopic focus, the Stapledonian romance eschews characters and dialogue, replacing them with Man and Evolution. The half-century to come, as predicted by the author in his foreword, would indeed be critical, coinciding with the high watermark of those social engineering schemes that seemed so congruent with the kind of utopian visions emblazoned here." - Robert Eldridge. ". one of the most remarkable imaginative works in the field of futuristic fiction: an account of human development during the next hundreds of millions of years." - Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 58. "On his own terms, Stapledon is unequaled, and he certainly has been one of the major influences on contemporary science fiction." - Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1140-43. "LAST AND FIRST MEN and STAR MAKER soar far beyond the accepted limits of science fiction. Stapledon is the great classical example, the cold pitch of perfection as he turns scientific concepts into vast ontological epic prose poems, the ultimate SF writer." - Aldiss, Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction, p. 198. Stapledon's "influence, both direct and indirect, on the development of many concepts which now permeate genre SF is probably second only to that of H. G. Wells." - Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), pp. 1151-53. Aldiss, Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction, p. 198. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-56; (1981) 2-98; (1987) 2-109; (1995) 2-119; and (2004) II-1069. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2086. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 718. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 58. Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), pp. 1151-52. Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 151. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, pp. 204-05. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 190. Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, pp. 200-03. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1140-43. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 185. Reginald 13553. Satty and Smith A3.2.1. Private owner's bookplate affixed to front paste-down. A fine copy in fine pictorial dust jacket (designed by Arthur Hawkins). A stunning copy of a very handsome book. (#114650).
Published by Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, New York, 1931
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] vii-ix [x] xi [xii] xiii-xvi 1-371 [372: blank], original purple cloth, all panels ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, top edge stained black, fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. First U.S. edition, first binding. "The author's first work of fiction, inaugurating those anatomies of the future that blend romance and philosophy, spectacle and prophecy, cosmological in scope, teleological in tone, for which the term 'novel' is wholly misleading. With its telescopic focus, the Stapledonian romance eschews characters and dialogue, replacing them with Man and Evolution. The half-century to come, as predicted by the author in his foreword, would indeed be critical, coinciding with the high watermark of those social engineering schemes that seemed so congruent with the kind of utopian visions emblazoned here." - Robert Eldridge. ". one of the most remarkable imaginative works in the field of futuristic fiction: an account of human development during the next hundreds of millions of years." - Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 58. "On his own terms, Stapledon is unequaled, and he certainly has been one of the major influences on contemporary science fiction." - Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1140-43. "LAST AND FIRST MEN and STAR MAKER soar far beyond the accepted limits of science fiction . Stapledon is the great classical example, the cold pitch of perfection as he turns scientific concepts into vast ontological epic prose poems, the ultimate SF writer." - Aldiss, Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction, p. 198. Stapledon's "influence, both direct and indirect, on the development of many concepts which now permeate genre SF is probably second only to that of H. G. Wells." - Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), pp. 1151-53. Aldiss, Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction, p. 198. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-56; (1981) 2-98; (1987) 2-109; (1995) 2-119; and (2004) II-1069. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2086. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 718. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 58. Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), pp. 1151-52. Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 151. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, pp. 204-05. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 190. Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, pp. 200-03. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1140-43. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 185. Reginald 13553. Satty and Smith A3.2.1. Spine panel sunned, a very good copy. Bookplate of Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie dated 5-12 July 1931 affixed to the front free endpaper and extensive underlining and annotations in Guthrie's hand throughout the text, especially the latter half of the book. Guthrie (1871-1940), American mystic, classical scholar, popularizer of philosophy and occult teachings, publisher, and editor and publisher of GOOD NEWS FOR ALL, a long-running bimonthly inspirational magazine, wrote and self-published A ROMANCE OF TWO CENTURIES: A TALE OF THE YEAR 2025 (1919), a major early twentieth century American utopian novel that presented a very detailed blueprint of the future. An interesting association copy. Accompanied by a signed handwritten 12-line letter (ALs) from Stapledon to "Dear Sir" [i.e. Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie], dated 31 August 1931, answering Gutherie's letter of 16 July. "It is very gratifying that your Forum has discussed my book [LAST AND FIRST MEN], and found it helpful to some extent in spite of its omissions. I was interested to see the June number of your 'Good News for All,' and I feel that though there are many differences between our points of view, we are also working in the same direction in many respects." (#130811).