Profiles Future, First Edition (11 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good+. 1st Edition (Unstated). B&W Illustrations; 372 pages; Ex-Library copy with usual identifiers. Light wear to cover edges. Scuff marks (small) to exterior edge of pages. No markings on text pages or major defects.; - We offer free returns for any reason and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your order will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. 165 Pages. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. 1st Edition. xvii, 237 pages including Preface to the Revised Edition, Introduction, and The Chart of the Future. 22 cm. Hardcover. Goldenrod colored linen over boards, spine lettering in black. Book Condition: light toning to cover just along their upper edges, spine ends gently pushed, interior text block unmarred. Dust Jacket Condition: wear to the extremties, with some creasing and light finger soiling. Jacket has correct price of $7.95 intact, the correct 0273 numerical sequence (also on the front flap), and finally, the complete number line starting with number1, tucked away on the last page. From the preface to the Revised Edition: "This book originally appeared in 1962 and was based upon essays written during the period 1959-1961. Since it was concerned largely with ultimate possibilities, and not with achievements to be expected in the near future, even the remarkable events of the last decade have dated it very little. . what has changed--and in ways that no one could possibly have predicted--is our entire attitude toward the future, and especially toward technology as a whole." First Edition, First Printing: Rvsd Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good gray boards in a very good not price-clipped dust jacket, in a mylar cover. Full number line. Unmarked. Discusses the fourth dimension, the obsolescence of gravity, colonization of the solar system and how we will pull asteroids to the earth for needed materials to name a few topics discussed in this book.

hardcover. Condition: near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First. Profiles of the Future by Arthur C. Clarke. First edition, first printing published by Harper and Row in 1982. An uncommon title by the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey and Rendezvous with Rama. Near fine in a very good jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Condition of Hardback Book: Very good but it is missing the dustjacket. Photo Attached. This book is the original 1962 version and is based on essays written during the period 1959 - 1961. Since it was concerned with ultimate possibilities, and not with achievements to be expected in the near future, even the remarkable events of the last decade have dated it very little. The author, amongst many fascinating excursions into what the future may hold, discusses the fourth dimension and the obsolescence of the law of gravity, the exploration of the entire solar system and the colonization of some of it; seas will be mined for energy and minerals, and asteroids will be pulled to Earth to supply needed materials; men, already bigger than they need be, may be bred smaller to be more efficient on less food. 220pp.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition thus. All original. Tears and creasing at head of Jacket. Slight shelf lean. Not clipped no ownership marks.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Pages clean and bright, no markings. light wear to cloth boards. Dust jacket is unclipped with some toning and shelfwear. small tear to top let corner which had been repaired. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition by this publisher. Fine in about fine dust jacket. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in. A nice crisp copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First edition. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced 21/-. Non-fiction essays where Clarke speculates on scientific and technological advances, from space flight and telecommunications to bioengineering, and coins the celebrated 'Clarke's Third Law' ("Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"). Ink name to front free endpaper, minor foxing to extremities of the text-block; cloth slightly softened at head of spine; jacket very slightly darkened at spine, slightly chipped at head of spine, but overall very good. Book.

First Edition. PROFILES OF THE FUTURE, Gollancz, 1962, first edition, spine and upper margins of the covers tanned, some foxing to the pre-lims & post-lims and page edges, else a vg copy in wraps. Uncorrected proof. Scarce thus.