Olaf William Olaf Stapledon (92 results)

Paperback. Condition: New. New paperback. An unread/unopened copy. May have VERY minor rubbing and scuffing from shelf wear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Moderate shelf/edge wear. Binding is intact. Pages are tanned with age, moderate foxing. Tracking available on most domestic orders.

Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Later edition. "LAST AND FIRST MEN and STAR MAKER soar far beyond the accepted limits of science fiction . Stapledon is the great classical example, the cold pitch of perfection as he turns scientific concepts into vast ontological epic prose poems, the ultimate SF writer." - Aldiss, Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction, p. 198. Trade paperback format. A fine copy. (#178064).…

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Wraps. Condition: Very Good-. Vol. 3, No. 6. Cover art is uncredited. Includes "The Phantom Billiard Player" by Col. George W. Lewis; "What happened to Oliver Lerch?" by Joseph Rosenberger; "The Bird Hex" by D. R. Linson; "The Case of the Bleeding Saint" by Edward W. Ludwig; "10 Days With korga" by John R. Clawson; "The Shattered Secret" by Margaret Hudson. Articles: "Mental Magic" by Juan H. McBroom; "Black Magic in India" by William H. Gilroy;"Ancient Rites of Pan" by Frank Patton; "I Model Spirits" by Rev. Elvina Colburn; "The Navaho Problem. . .As they See It"; "Flying Saucers as Astronomers See Them" by Maurice Weekley & Prof. George Adamski; "Strange Prophecies Concerning Lincoln" by Thomas J. McLaughlin; "Interplanetary Man" by Olaf Stapledon; "Mystery of the Midget Mummy' by Ray Palmer. Also many Features. Illustrated by Terry and others. Tanning; minor soiling; edge and corner wear; foxing; tears to spine ends; small pencil mark on front. Magazine.…

Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. Collects two posthumously published works. "Nebula Maker" is an early, heretofore unpublished version of STAR MAKER (1937). This edition includes a new introduction by Arthur C. Clarke as well as the introduction to the earlier 1976 UK edition by Harvey Satty. The philosophical "Four Encounters" includes the introduction to the earlier 1976 UK edition by Brian W. Aldiss. See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1072. A fine copy with light wear at spine ends and 10 mm closed tear at lower spine end. (#178066).…

Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-ix [x-xii] [1-2] 3-236 [237-244: blank] [note: last four leaves are blanks], cloth-backed boards. First edition. Study of the themes and images of Stapledon's fiction. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 9-107. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#178071).

Octavo, printed wrappers. First U.S. edition. Text offset from that of the 1942 Methuen edition. New introduction by Sam Moskowitz. "Two possible courses of future development are opposed to each other. On the one hand there is destruction and darkness, on the other spiritual rebirth and light. Both imaginary histories are presented in detail." - Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 155. Trade paperback format. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-55. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 77. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 224. Bleiler (1978), p. 185. Reginald 13550. Satty and Smith A11.1.2.1. Small glue stain to rear cover, else a fine copy. (#178050).…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition, first printng. A miscellany including previously unpublished writings. Trade paperback format. A fine copy. (#178072).

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 309 pages. 8.50x5.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Softcover. Condition: Fine. Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen; Leichte Verformung / umgeknickte Seiten; Leichte Verschmutzung / Farbtonveränderung. Sirius is Thomas Trelone's great experiment - a huge, handsome dog with the brain and intelligence of a human being. Raised and educated in Trelone's own family alongside Plaxy, his youngest daughter, Sirius is a truly remarkable and gifted creature. His relationship with the Trelones, particularly with Plaxy, is deep and close, and his inquiring mind ranges across the spectrum of human knowledge and experience. But Sirius isn't human and the conflicts and inner turmoil that torture him cannot be resolved.…

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Octavo, illustrations by Wendy Snow-Lang, publisher's full green leather decorated in gold, all edges gilt. Later edition. Issued as part of the Easton Press "Masterpieces of Science Fiction" series. Introduction by Alfred Bester. Stapledon's third novel. ". the most radically thoughtful of the many fictional extrapolations of ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES and one of the least comfortable in its conclusion. Above all it exposes the flimsiness of thinking that 'Superman' will always be on the side of the police, that evolution has stopped, or that from now on evolution will only take place nicely." - Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1583-87. "Although the narrative voices Stapledon's biases, it remains perhaps the finest early novel in which mankind is unable to accept and live with advanced mutations (supermen)." - Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 720. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1070. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. (#179693).…

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Hardcover. Condition: USED Good. No Jacket. Stated First Edition in red cloth boards previous owner's name on bookplate on FEP.

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Octavo, boards. First edition. Four philosophical essays; dialogues in which the Stapledon personna encounters a Christian, a Scientist, a Mystic, and a Revolutionary. Introduction by Brian W. Aldiss. Afterword by Richard Kirby. This book was suppressed and most of the edition was withdrawn from sale by the publisher. Mild bruises to corner tips (minor shipping damage), else a fine copy in fine dust jacket with faint matching bruises. (#76731).…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Original January 1929 issue of the Journal of Philosophical Studies, Vol. IV, No. 13, edited by Sydney E. Hooper and published quarterly for the British Institute of Philosophical Studies by Macmillan and Co., London. Complete through p. 154 and retaining the original printed wrappers together with contemporary advertising matter. Of particular interest is Olaf Stapledon's "The Location of Physical Objects," pp. 64-75, an early and substantial philosophical paper by Stapledon, published the year before Last and First Men (1930) established his reputation as one of the most distinctive speculative writers of the twentieth century. The paper belongs to Stapledon's serious philosophical work rather than his later fiction and addresses the ontological problem of what it means for a physical object to occupy a determinate region of space. Cambridge records the article as appearing in this exact issue, Vol. 4, No. 13, January 1929, pp. 64-75. Stapledon begins from the apparently straightforward common-sense conception of an object as occupying a definite spatial region before bringing this conception into confrontation with A. N. Whitehead's critique of "simple location." Using the seemingly mundane example of a penny, he investigates whether the being of an object can genuinely be confined to the volume conventionally assigned to it, drawing Berkeley and problems of perception into an argument concerned with the relation between sensible qualities, physical existence and spatial location. The paper consequently has particular interest for collectors concerned with Stapledon beyond his science fiction, as well as readers of Whitehead, metaphysics and the philosophy of perception. Also particularly significant is C. Lloyd Morgan's "The Case for Emergent Evolution," pp. 23-38. Morgan was already closely associated with the philosophical formulation of emergent evolution, and this 1929 paper returns explicitly to the distinction between an "emergent" and a "resultant", tracing the terminology back to George Henry Lewes. The article remains cited in later philosophical literature on emergence and represents another substantial contribution in this single issue. Further contents include W. G. de Burgh, "Gentile's Philosophy of the Spirit"; William Brown, "Religion and Science"; John Laird, "The Possibility of Rationalism in Ethics"; C. Delisle Burns, "The Philosophy of Social Life"; and C. E. M. Joad, "The One and the Many," followed by the Philosophical Survey, New Books and Institute Notes. The issue therefore provides an unusually concentrated cross-section of British philosophical discussion at the end of the 1920s, encompassing idealism, emergent evolution, philosophy of science, ethics and metaphysics. Original printed wrappers present. The spine is considerably worn, with losses of wrapper material, splitting and exposed gatherings in places; wrappers have edge wear, creasing, age-toning and general handling marks. Memorial College, Brecon institutional stamps appear on the front wrapper, opening page and rear wrapper. Despite the external wear, the contents remain together and the interior is substantially cleaner than the wrappers suggest. Contemporary publisher's advertisements survive, including advertisements for philosophical, theological and psychological publications. An uncommon original issue with considerable interest through the conjunction of Stapledon's early metaphysics and Lloyd Morgan's mature statement of emergent evolution, retaining its original wrappers and advertising matter.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Star Maker | William Olaf Stapledon | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2025 | E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books | EAN 9786256310056 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Bookmundo, Delftsestraat 33, 3013 AE ROTTERDAM, NIEDERLANDE, info[at]bookmundo[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.

Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii-xiii [xiv] xv-xviii [xix-xx] 1-474 [475-476: blank], illustrations, cloth. First edition, first printing. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#178069).

Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii [viii] ix-xli [xlii] [1-2] 3-382, illustrations, cloth. First edition. See Anatomy of Wonder (1995), p. 583. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#178068).

Octavo, boards. First edition. Four philosophical essays; dialogues in which the Stapledon personna encounters a Christian, a Scientist, a Mystic, and a Revolutionary. Introduction by Brian W. Aldiss. Afterword by Richard Kirby. This book was suppressed and most of the edition was withdrawn from sale by the publisher. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with some fade to the spine panel. (#173849).…

Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii [ix] x [xi-xii] [1] 2-132, cloth. First edition. Collects Stapledon's previously unpublished "Letters to the Future" and six essays on Stapledon by Patrick A. McCarthy, Charles Elkins, Curtis C. Smith, and others. "An "excellent and important collection of six well-researched, well-written contextual essays." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 9-110. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. (#173850).…