Nebula Maker & Four Encounters by Olaf Stapledon - 1983

Dodd, Mead, 1983. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good Plus. Jim Starlin. First U.S. edition/printing. Book is in Fine condition; dj is in Very Good Plus condition with some wear at top of spine and a short, closed tear at bottom of rear panel. Introduction by Arthur C. Clarke. Cover and interior illustrations by the brilliant Jim Starlin. Nebula - "The posthumously discovered "Nebula Maker" (1976), apparently written in the mid-1930s as part of an early draft for Star Maker and then put aside, sketches the history of the nebulae and shows how their striving is brought to nothing by an uncaring God."; Four Encounters - "His scrupulous considering of opposed points of view, and his sceptical intelligence, found an admirable vehicle in the imaginary conversations of Four Encounters (coll 1976), probably written in the later 1940s." - Mike Ashley and John Clute, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, 3rd Edition/Internet.