far future calling uncollected science von stapledon olaf (7 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st edition. Near Fine in Near Fine dw. 8vo, 276pp, violet cloth with spine lettering stamped in gold, printed dustwrapper. A fresh copy of this posthumous collection of work by Utopian science fiction writer and mystic Olaf Stapledon. Unmarked copy with minor wear; dustwrapper is not price-clipped. Not Signed.

Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp., 275, [1]. With illustrations by Stephen E. Fabian. Bound in magenta cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the original unclipped pictorial dust-jacket designed by Fabian. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust-jacket. Uncollected sci-fi and fantasy short-stories by British philosopher and undisputed master of the genre, Olaf Stapledon, with only one story having been previously published in the US. Includes an authorised biography by Moskowitz.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. Stephen E. Fabian (illustrator). HC w/DJ. (Chalker and Owings report 1300 copies printed).Collects 5 short stories, an un-aired radio play "Far Future Calling" for the BBC (ca 1930), and the first book publication of "Interplanetary Man", an address to the British Interplanetary Society (Nov. 1948). Includes a comprehensive and authorized biography by the editor Sam Moskowitz. Jacket cover and frontispiece art by Stephen E. Fabian. A portrait drawing of Stapledon by Frank Paul precedes the introduction.

Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects five short stories, "Far Future Calling," a radio play about Stapledon's Last Men, and "Interplanetary Man," Stapledon's 1948 address to the British Interplanetary Society, with a 55-page biography and memoir of Stapledon's visit to the U.S. in 1949 by Moskowitz. This is the first book publication of "Interplanetary Man," pp. 209-252, his address to the British Interplanetary Society first published in JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH INTERPLANETARY SOCIETY 7 (November 1948). "Philosophy of man's role in and motivation for space flight, by a well-known British science fiction writer. This is one of the earliest articles on this topic and a milestone in the history of the British Interplanetary Society" (Pisano and Lewis). Pisano and Lewis 1215. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#9327).

Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects five short stories, "Far Future Calling," a radio play about Stapledon's Last Men, and "Interplanetary Man," Stapledon's 1948 address to the British Interplanetary Society, with a 55-page biography and memoir of Stapledon's visit to the U.S. in 1949 by Moskowitz. This is the first book publication of "Interplanetary Man," pp. 209-252, his address to the British Interplanetary Society first published in JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH INTERPLANETARY SOCIETY 7 (November 1948). "Philosophy of man's role in and motivation for space flight, by a well-known British science fiction writer. This is one of the earliest articles on this topic and a milestone in the history of the British Interplanetary Society" (Pisano and Lewis). Pisano and Lewis 1215. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#153740).

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. Stephen E. Fabian (illustrator). First Edition. First Edition. Octavo, original purple cloth over boards, gilt lettering on spine, color illustrated dust jacket, black and white frontispiece, signed by editor Sam Maskowitz on front facing endpaper, signed by illustrator Stephen E. Fabian on title page. "This volume of [Stapledon's] uncollected short science fiction and fantasy (only one having previously appeared in the United States) is a major publishing event. In addition to the five stories, there is an uncollected radio script from which this volume takes its title and an uncollected 1948 address to the British Interplanetary Society." Also included is a biography of Stapledon by Sam Maskowitz. Fine, in Fine dust jacket.

Octavo, cloth. First edition. A presentation copy with signed inscription by Moskowitz to Gerry de la Ree on the front free endpaper. Signed by artist Stephen E. Fabian below the Moskowitz inscription. Collects five short stories, "Far Future Calling," a radio play about Stapledon's Last Men, and "Interplanetary Man," Stapledon's 1948 address to the British Interplanetary Society, with a 55-page biography and memoir of Stapledon's visit to the U.S. in 1949 by Moskowitz. This is the first book publication of "Interplanetary Man," pp. 209-252, his address to the British Interplanetary Society first published in JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH INTERPLANETARY SOCIETY 7 (November 1948). "Philosophy of man's role in and motivation for space flight, by a well-known British science fiction writer. This is one of the earliest articles on this topic and a milestone in the history of the British Interplanetary Society" (Pisano and Lewis). Pisano and Lewis 1215. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#173205).