Last and First Men
by Stapledon, Olaf
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Woodstock, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Science Fiction Book Club, 1953. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped (no price), lightly toned and soiled throughout. Blue boards, faded at the purple gilt label on the spine. Square and firmly bound with toned pages, clean otherwise. Stapledon's sociological romance, a work of speculative fiction of a world torn apart by war and invaded by martians.
Synopsis
Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future is a science fiction novel written in 1930 by the British author Olaf Stapledon. 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 and most primitive.
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Details
- Seller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 10197
- Title
- Last and First Men
- Author
- Stapledon, Olaf
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- Science Fiction Book Club
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- Science Fiction, SF, Sci-fi, War, Martians, Aliens, Future, WWII, 20th Century Fiction, Stopa
Terms of Sale
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
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About the Seller
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2018
Woodstock, Illinois
About Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...