Extrapolation by Clareson Thomas Editor (26 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Magazine. Trade paperback size and format. Square bound. First Printing. FINE. All corners pointed. Binding firm, without stress creasing and square. With slight wear from handling. No tears, creases, bumps or chips. Not marked in any way and very clean and bright. All items carefully wrapped and sent boxed.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Near fine in original wrappers.

Kent State 1st ed. 94pp Near fine with very light wear. See photos whb 14.

Kent State 1st ed. 87pp Near fine with very light wear. See photos whb14.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Kent State 1st ed. 208pp Near fine with very light wear. See photos 14E.

Magazine. 96p., 6x9 inches, introduction, essays, opinion, reviews, contributors, very good digest size journal in stapled gray printed wraps. Brian Aldiss and Jack Williamson were on the editorial board.

Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the December 1962 issue of "Extrapolation: A Science-Fiction Newsletter" (Volume IV Number 1) edited by Thomas D. Clareson and published by the Department of English, The College of Wooster, Ohio. A left-stapled publication measuring 8-1/2" by 11" and containing 16 sheets, with 14 interior pages containing text (the verso of each page is blank, as issued). This a stated "Reprint" edition xeroxed by the College of Wooster. The Contents are: From the Launching Pad (editor's opening notes, 1 page); Notes Toward a Definition of Science Fiction by John B. Hamilton (12 pages including Bibliography); Index to Extrapolation, Volumes I - - III, December 1959 - - May 1962 (1 page).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Thick, oversized softcover. A little curled at the front corners. The binding is strong and there are no markings.

Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the May 1965 issue of "Extrapolation: A Science-Fiction Newsletter" (Volume VI Number 2) edited by Thomas D. Clareson and published by the Department of English, The College of Wooster, Ohio. A left-stapled publication measuring 8-1/2" by 11" and containing 31 sheets, with 30 interior pages containing text (the verso of each page is blank, as issued). This a stated "Reprint" edition xeroxed by the College of Wooster. The Contents are: The Launching Pad (editor's opening notes, 1 page); Science Fiction as an Index to Popular Attitudes Toward Science: A Danger, Some Problems, and Two Possible Paths by H. Bruce Franklin (9 pages); H. G. Wells: Ironic Romancer by David Y. Hughes (7 pages); The Geography of Utopia: Psychological Factors Shaping the 'Ideal' Location by Robert Plank (11 pages, including Footnotes and drawing of the "Island of Utopia"); Carolyn Meyers: A Request for Information (2 pages).

Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the December 1965 issue of "Extrapolation: A Science-Fiction Newsletter" (Volume VII Number 1) edited by Thomas D. Clareson and published by the Department of English, The College of Wooster, Ohio. A left-stapled publication measuring 8-1/2" by 11" and containing 30 sheets, with 28 interior pages containing text (the verso of each page is blank, as issued). This a stated "Reprint" edition xeroxed by the College of Wooster. The Contents are: The Launching Pad (editor's opening notes, 1 page); Extrapolators and Exegetes of Evolution by W.H.G. Armytage (16 pages, including three-page References, which begins with a quote from a letter written by Lord Lytton to his friend John Forster on 15 March 1871: "The Darwinian proposition that a coming race is destined to supplant our races, that such a race would be very gradually formed, and be indeed a new species developing itself out of our old one, and that this process would be invisible to our eyes, and therefore in some region unknown to us, is the only important point to keep in view"); The Scientist as Hero in American Science-Fiction, 1880-1920 by Thomas D. Clareson (11 pages, including three-page References).

Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the December 1966 issue of "Extrapolation: A Science-Fiction Newsletter" (Volume VIII Number 1) edited by Thomas D. Clareson and published by the Department of English, The College of Wooster, Ohio. A left-stapled publication measuring 8-1/2" by 11" and containing 31 sheets, with 29 interior pages containing text (the verso of each page is blank, as issued). This a stated "Reprint" edition xeroxed by the College of Wooster. The Contents are: The Launching Pad (editor's opening notes, 1 page); What Do You Mean - Science? Fiction? by Judith Merril (Part Two of Two, 17 pages); Inside Utopia by J. Max Patrick (5 pages); Extrapolation: A Science-Fiction Newsletter - Index to Volumes I Through VII, December, 1959 Through May 1966 (5 pages).

Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the December 1963 issue of "Extrapolation: A Science-Fiction Newsletter" (Volume V Number 1) edited by Thomas D. Clareson and published by the Department of English, The College of Wooster, Ohio. A left-stapled publication measuring 8-1/2" by 11" and containing 27 sheets, with 25 interior pages containing text (the verso of each page is blank, as issued). This a stated "Reprint" edition xeroxed by the College of Wooster. The Contents are: From the Launching Pad (editor's opening notes, 1 page); The Clarkson Collection of Science Fiction at Harvard by Mark R. Hillegas (13 pages; the headings are: Fiction; Bibliographical; Non-Fiction; Comics; Illustrations; Verse; Collections; Periodicals; Fanzines; Manuscripts; Foreign Fiction); Book Review (3 pages; Professor Clareson reviews "Explorers of the Infinite: Shapers of Science Fiction" written by Sam Moskowitz); Brave New Improbable Worlds: Critical Notes on 'Extrapolation' as a Mimetic Technique in Science Fiction by V. Milo Kaufmann (8 pages).

Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the May 1966 issue of "Extrapolation: A Science-Fiction Newsletter" (Volume VII Number 2) edited by Thomas D. Clareson and published by the Department of English, The College of Wooster, Ohio. A left-stapled publication measuring 8-1/2" by 11" and containing 22 sheets, with 20 interior pages containing text (the verso of each page is blank, as issued). This a stated "Reprint" edition xeroxed by the College of Wooster. The Contents are: The Launching Pad (editor's opening notes, 1 page); What Do You Mean - Science? Fiction? by Judith Merril (Part One of Two, 17 pages); New Books: Brief Notice (2 pages).

Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the December 1960 issue of "Extrapolation: A Science-Fiction Newsletter" (Volume II Number 1) edited by Thomas D. Clareson and published by the Department of English, The College of Wooster, Ohio. A left-stapled publication measuring 8-1/2" by 11" and containing 22 sheets, with 21 interior pages containing text (the verso of each page is blank, as issued). This a stated "Reprint" edition xeroxed by the College of Wooster. The Contents are: From the Launching Pad (editor's opening notes, 1 page; Professor Clareson indicates that there were "almost" 50 subscribers at this point); Some Recurrent Symbols in Science-Fiction by Robert H. Wilson (2-1/2 pages); A Note on Voltaire's 'Micromegas' by Thomas D. Clareson (1/2 page); A Bibliography of Secondary Materials on Jules Verne by Mark R. Hillegas (12 pages; as written, "This bibliography contains nearly every book and article about Jules Verne written in English and of any value as well as most of the important secondary materials in French - It has not been practical, of course, to list newspaper accounts, which were particularly numerous on the occasion of Verne's death in 1905 and the centennial of his birth in 1928"); Is Science-Fiction Art? A Look at H.G. Wells by J.O. Bailey (2-1/2 pages); Once Again, Definitions (1/2 page; comments from John W. Campbell and R.T. Bond of Dodd, Mead and Company on how science-fiction differs from other types of fiction); book review by Arthur O. Lewis, Jr. (2 pages; on "New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction" written by Kingsley Amis).

Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the May 1963 issue of "Extrapolation: A Science-Fiction Newsletter" (Volume IV Number 2) edited by Thomas D. Clareson and published by the Department of English, The College of Wooster, Ohio. A left-stapled publication measuring 8-1/2" by 11" and containing 21 sheets (the original issue and not a reprint), with 19 printed interior pages containing text (the verso of each page is blank, as issued). The Contents are: From the Launching Pad (editor's opening notes, 2 pages; Professor Clareson reprints a letter from Scott C. Osborn written to John Fisher, Executive Secretary, The Modern Language Association of America [MLA]); The Artistic Problem: Science Fiction As Romance by Lionel Stevenson (6 pages); Current Books: Notes and Reviews - The Passing of Utopia (3 pages; Professor Clareson reviews "From Utopia to Nightmare" written by Chad Walsh along with other book notes); Science Fiction as Cultural Phenomenon: A Re-Evaluation by Mark R. Hillegas (8 pages).

Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the premiere issue of "Extrapolation: A Science-Fiction Newsletter" (Volume I Number 1 - December 1959) edited by Thomas D. Clareson and published by the Department of English, The College of Wooster, Ohio. A left-stapled publication measuring 8-1/2" by 11" and containing 22 sheets, with 20 interior pages containing text (the verso of each page is blank, as issued). This a stated "Reprint" edition xeroxed by the College of Wooster. The Contents are: From the Launching Pad (editor's opening notes, 1 page); article Major Trends in American Science-Fiction: 1880-1915 (3 pages); lengthy An Annotated Checklist of American Science-Fiction, 1880-1915 (16-page Bibliography containing author, title, date and publisher, with a short synopsis of the plot).

Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the May 1968 issue of "Extrapolation: A Science-Fiction Newsletter" (Volume IX Number 2) edited by Thomas D. Clareson and published by the Department of English, The College of Wooster, Ohio. A left-stapled publication measuring 8-1/2" by 11" and containing 42 sheets (the original issue and not a reprint), with 40 xeroxed interior pages containing text (the verso of each page is blank, as issued - Professor Clareson writes in the December 1967 issue that "Until agreement [with an outside printing company], all production, including the current issue, is being done by xerox"). The Contents are: The Launching Pad (editor's opening notes, 1 page); "The Secondary Universe": A National Conference (1 page; details about the upcoming conference on May 10-11, 1968 at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee); Voices Prophesying War: Problems in Research by I. F. Clarke (7 pages); The Disenchanted Mechanophobes in Twentieth Century England by W.H.G. Armytage (28 pages); Book Review (2 pages; 'Price Guide to the Occult and Related Subjects' compiled by K.M. Hyre and Eli Goodman reviewed by Robert Galbreath); Brief Notice: Current Books by Professor Clareson (1 page).

Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the December 1967 issue of "Extrapolation: A Science-Fiction Newsletter" (Volume IX Number 1) edited by Thomas D. Clareson and published by the Department of English, The College of Wooster, Ohio. A left-stapled publication measuring 8-1/2" by 11" and containing 25 sheets (the original issue and not a reprint), with 23 xeroxed interior pages containing text (the verso of each page is blank, as issued - Professor Clareson writes in his opening comments, in part, that "Until agreement [with an outside printing company], all production, including the current issue, is being done by xerox"). The Contents are: The Launching Pad (editor's opening notes, 2 pages); Outopia in Jorge Luis Borges' Fiction by Thomas Zaniello (15 pages; the topics are: The Archetypal Utopian City; Outopian Ectypes: Inverted Images of Our World; Notes; A Selected Bibliography: Articles in English About Borges); The Course in Science Fiction: A Hope Deferred by Mark R. Hillegas (4 pages); Book Review ('The Future as Nightmare: H.G. Wells and the Anti-Utopians' by Mark R. Hillegas reviewed by Professor Clareson).

Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the May 1967 issue of "Extrapolation: A Science-Fiction Newsletter" (Volume VIII Number 2) edited by Thomas D. Clareson and published by the Department of English, The College of Wooster, Ohio. A left-stapled publication measuring 8-1/2" by 11" and containing 39 sheets (the original issue and not a reprint), with 37 printed interior pages containing text (the verso of each page is blank, as issued). The Contents are: The Launching Pad (editor's opening notes, 1 page); H. G. Wells and Victor Rousseau Emanuel: 'When the Sleeper Wakes' and 'The Messiah of the Cylinder' by Richard D. Mullen (33 pages; the topics are: A Famous Book and a Little-Known Book; A Defense of 'When the Sleeper Wakes'; 'The Messiah of the Cylinder'; H. G. Wells and 'The Messiah of the Cylinder'; 'The Messiah of the Cylinder' and 'Nineteen Eight-Four'; Victor Rousseau Emanuel; extensive Footnotes); Book Review (3 pages; 'Voices Prophesying War, 1763-1984' written by I. F. Clarke reviewed by Robert Plank).

Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the May 1964 issue of "Extrapolation: A Science-Fiction Newsletter" (Volume V Number 2) edited by Thomas D. Clareson and published by the Department of English, The College of Wooster, Ohio. A left-stapled publication measuring 8-1/2" by 11" and containing 26 sheets (the original issue and not a reprint), with 24 printed interior pages containing text (the verso of each page is blank, as issued). The Contents are: From the Launching Pad (editor's opening notes, 1 page); George Eliot, Science Fiction, and Fantasy by Bernard J. Paris (5 pages); A Poetic Precursor of [Edward] Bellamy's 'Looking Backward' by Ben W. Fuson (6 pages; the twenty-one, 8-line stanzas of "A Century Hence" written by William McClung Paxton are reproduced here; the poem first appeared in his volume "A Century Hence and Other Poems" published in 1880); The Interplay of Science and Fiction: The Canals of Mars by William B. Johnson and Thomas D. Clareson (3 pages); A Checklist to Articles on the Martian 'Canal' Controversy compiled by William B. Johnson (9 pages; a splendid Bibliography, with headings: Anonymous [Authors]; Author Known; Additional Articles).

Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the May 1962 issue of "Extrapolation: A Science-Fiction Newsletter" (Volume III Number 2) edited by Thomas D. Clareson and published by the Department of English, The College of Wooster, Ohio. A left-stapled publication measuring 8-1/2" by 11" and containing 24 sheets (the original issue and not a reprint), with 22 printed interior pages containing text (the verso of each page is blank, as issued). The Contents are: From the Launching Pad (editor's opening notes, 1 page; Professor Clareson mentions that the previous issue had a print run of 100 copies, with 75 subscribers); An Annotated Biography of Jules Verne's 'Voyages Extraordinaires' by Mark R. Hillegas (16 pages; each title contains the year of publication, French and English titles, and plot synopsis); A German Study of Science Fiction: A Review by Robert Plank (3 pages; Dr. Martin Schwonke's study is reviewed); two-page poem "Space Travel" by Felix Braun (translated from the German by Robert Plank).

Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the December 1969 issue of "Extrapolation: A Science-Fiction Newsletter" (Volume 11 Number 1) edited by Thomas D. Clareson and published by the Department of English, The College of Wooster, Ohio. A left-stapled publication now with blue covers and professionally printed, measuring 8-1/2" by 11" and containing 32 sheets (the original issue and not a reprint), with 30 printed interior pages containing text (the verso of each page is blank, as issued). The Contents are: Table of Contents (1 page); The Launching Pad (editor's opening notes, 2 pages); First [Annual] Conference [on the] Bibliography of Science Fiction by Fred Lerner (2 pages; held in the Harkness Theatre on Columbia University, the article contains a list of speakers); Dream Literature and Science Fiction by Joanna Russ (9 pages, with Footnotes); Edenic Motifs in Utopian Fiction by Mary S. Weinkauf (8 pages, with Footnotes); 1001 Interpretations of 2001 by Robert Plank (2 pages); Science Fiction and the Rate of Social Change by L. W. Michaelson (3 pages); Current Books: Reviews and Brief Mention by Professor Clareson (3 pages).

Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the May 1970 issue of "Extrapolation: A Science-Fiction Newsletter" (Volume 11 Number 2) edited by Thomas D. Clareson and published by the Department of English, The College of Wooster, Ohio. A left-stapled publication now with blue covers and professionally printed, measuring 8-1/2" by 11" and containing 58 pages including front and rear covers, with 54 internal pages (the text is now printed on both sides of paper). The Contents are: Table of Contents (1 page, with blank verso); The Launching Pad (editor's opening notes, 2 pages); The Genesis of 'Stand on Zanzibar' and Digressions by John Brunner (10 pages; as stated, "This paper grows out of the 1969 meeting of the Seminar on Science Fiction, Denver, 29 December, 1969"); Significant Themes in the Criticism of Soviet Science Fiction to 1965 by Darko Suvin (9 pages with Bibliography; as stated, "Paper read at the First Annual Conference on the Bibliography of Science Fiction, Columbia University, 1 March 1969"); As I Knew Hugo [Gernsback] by Jack Williamson (3 pages); An Annotated Bibliography of Critical Writings Dealing with Science Fiction (First Installment) by Thomas D. Clareson (28 pages; in author order, the categories are: Books and Pamphlets; Periodicals; The European Scene; with textual comments on Poland and Germany). Front cover lightly sunned along edge areas.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Facsimile reprint: quarto; paperback; unpaginated (600pp.), with some monochrome diagrams. Mild wear; some light insect damage and creasing to the wrappers; text block edges lightly toned with some spotting; spine sunned. Very good. Standard postage quoted is for a maximum 1kg book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. This book's packed weight is over 1kg so extra charges for overseas postage will apply. Books listed on ABEbooks are not kept at our bookshop. Please enquire if you wish to see the book at our premises.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Published twice a year, 1959-1966 by the Dept. of English, The College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio. This 2-volume set is comprised of the mimeographed newsletter bound in stiff paper covers and held together with clasps. VERY SCARCE!! Condition: slight shelf wear; else very good to near fine condition.