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Methuen, London, 1931, Second edition, ,. Good. 1931. Hardcover. 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 .
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Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future
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Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future
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New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1931. First U.S. edition. 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. First U.S. edition of this classic of science fiction from Stapledon, in the striking Arthur Hawkins dust jacket. Currey pg 467.
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Last and First Men - A Story of the Near and Far Future
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London: Methuen, 1930. First edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. A sharp, near fine copy. No signatures, no bookplates. First issue with ads date 630.
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Last and First Men - A Story of the Near and Far Future
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London: Methuen, 1930. First edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very good or better book in jacket. First issue with ads at rear date marked 630. Dust jacket with minor wear to spine ends, brief tear touching on the AS of "LAST" closed neatly in protective mylar. A nice copy of a classic.
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Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future
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London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1932. First edition, first issue. A work of considerable depth, Stapledon's novel describes the history of humanity from the present onwards across two billion years. Through a conceit that a member of a future human species has channeled the text through him, the narrator relates the evolution of the human race across eighteen different species, of which our own is the first and the future being responsible for sending the text to the narrator belongs to the last. The history relies on Hegelian Dialectic, consisting of a repetitive cycle in which civilizations rise and fall from savagery, with each successive race reaching greater heights than the first. The novel has borne extensive weight among future authors, influencing C. S. Lewis's theological science fiction Space Trilogy, Arthur C. Clarke, and H. P. Lovecraft. In original first state dust wrapper, which is a touch faded to spine, has chips to edges, three short tears to back, creasing along spine, and small stains…
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