Far Future Calling by Olaf Stapledon (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Illustrated by Stephen E Fabian. Fine in dust wrapper with light soil to white rear panel.

hardcover. First Edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Five short stories, an un-aired radio play "Far Future Calling" for the BBC (ca 1930), and the first book publication of "Interplanetary Man", a 1948 address to the British Interplanetary Society. Includes a comprehensive and authorized biography by the editor Sam Moskowitz. Jacket art by Fabian.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover first edition edited by Sam Moskowitz. Dust jacket has rub damage on the front near the top of book above title.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Stephen E. Fabian(Cover Artist) Frank Paul(Interior Artist) Stephen E. Fabian(Interior Artist) (illustrator). First Edition. Far Future Calling Olaf Stapledon Firm square copy. Bright dust jacket. Not price-clipped. HC w/DJ. (Chalker and Owings report 1300 copies printed).Collects 5 short stories, an un-aired radio play "Far Future Calling" for the BBC (ca 1930), and the first book publication of "Interplanetary Man", an address to the British Interplanetary Society (Nov. 1948). Includes a comprehensive and authorized biography by the editor Sam Moskowitz. Jacket cover and frontispiece art by Stephen E. Fabian. A portrait drawing of Stapledon by Frank Paul precedes the introduction. BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Stephen E. Fabian (illustrator). HC w/DJ. (Chalker and Owings report 1300 copies printed).Collects 5 short stories, an un-aired radio play "Far Future Calling" for the BBC (ca 1930), and the first book publication of "Interplanetary Man", an address to the British Interplanetary Society (Nov. 1948). Includes a comprehensive and authorized biography by the editor Sam Moskowitz. Jacket cover and frontispiece art by Stephen E. Fabian. A portrait drawing of Stapledon by Frank Paul precedes the introduction.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Stephen Fabian (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Dust jacket art by Stephen Fabian. As new, never read.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Dust jacket in good condition. First edition. SIGNED by the illustrator. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. *** Signed by Illustrator, Stephen E. Fabian *** Pages are clean. Binding is secure. Dust jacket is protected in mylar. Secure packaging for safe delivery. signed by illustrator.

Stephen E Fabian, Frank R Paul (illustrator). Oswald Train hb 1979 with dj - minor wear, otherwise tight binding and clean text. Uncollected Science Fiction and Fantasies of Olaf Stapledon: edited and with an authorized biography by Sam Moskowitz, illustrated by Stephen E Fabian, portrait by Frank R Paul.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Stapled pamphlet, pp 28. Front wrapper lettered in black and decorated in blue. Number 16 of only 100 copies, 'for distribution to members of the Olaf Stapledon Society'. Wrappers sunned in parts. else VG The previously unpublished radio play was written in 1930 or 1931 for the BBC by the renowned science fiction writer and philosopher, Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950), but had not been produced. Scarce. Ê.

Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects five short stories, "Far Future Calling," a radio play about Stapledon's Last Men, and "Interplanetary Man," Stapledon's 1948 address to the British Interplanetary Society, with a 55-page biography and memoir of Stapledon's visit to the U.S. in 1949 by Moskowitz. This is the first book publication of "Interplanetary Man," pp. 209-252, his address to the British Interplanetary Society first published in JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH INTERPLANETARY SOCIETY 7 (November 1948). "Philosophy of man's role in and motivation for space flight, by a well-known British science fiction writer. This is one of the earliest articles on this topic and a milestone in the history of the British Interplanetary Society" (Pisano and Lewis). Pisano and Lewis 1215. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#9327).

Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects five short stories, "Far Future Calling," a radio play about Stapledon's Last Men, and "Interplanetary Man," Stapledon's 1948 address to the British Interplanetary Society, with a 55-page biography and memoir of Stapledon's visit to the U.S. in 1949 by Moskowitz. This is the first book publication of "Interplanetary Man," pp. 209-252, his address to the British Interplanetary Society first published in JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH INTERPLANETARY SOCIETY 7 (November 1948). "Philosophy of man's role in and motivation for space flight, by a well-known British science fiction writer. This is one of the earliest articles on this topic and a milestone in the history of the British Interplanetary Society" (Pisano and Lewis). Pisano and Lewis 1215. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#153740).

Octavo, decorated wrappers. First edition. Limited to 100 numbered copies (this being number 87), and a few unnumbered out of series copies, produced for distribution to members of the Olaf Stapledon Society. First publication of this radio play, apparently written shortly after the publication of LAST AND FIRST MEN in October 1930, with two-page "introduction" by Harvey Satty. Satty and Smith A23.1. Spine panel sunned, else a fine copy. Quite scarce. (#173848).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Stephen E. Fabian (illustrator). First Edition. First Edition. Octavo, original purple cloth over boards, gilt lettering on spine, color illustrated dust jacket, black and white frontispiece, signed by editor Sam Maskowitz on front facing endpaper, signed by illustrator Stephen E. Fabian on title page. "This volume of [Stapledon's] uncollected short science fiction and fantasy (only one having previously appeared in the United States) is a major publishing event. In addition to the five stories, there is an uncollected radio script from which this volume takes its title and an uncollected 1948 address to the British Interplanetary Society." Also included is a biography of Stapledon by Sam Maskowitz. Fine, in Fine dust jacket.

Octavo, cloth. First edition. A presentation copy with signed inscription by Moskowitz to Joe Wrzos on the front free endpaper. Signed by artist Stephen E. Fabian below the Moskowitz inscription. Collects five short stories, "Far Future Calling," a radio play about Stapledon's Last Men, and "Interplanetary Man," Stapledon's 1948 address to the British Interplanetary Society, with a 55-page biography and memoir of Stapledon's visit to the U.S. in 1949 by Moskowitz. This is the first book publication of "Interplanetary Man," pp. 209-252, his address to the British Interplanetary Society first published in JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH INTERPLANETARY SOCIETY 7 (November 1948). "Philosophy of man's role in and motivation for space flight, by a well-known British science fiction writer. This is one of the earliest articles on this topic and a milestone in the history of the British Interplanetary Society" (Pisano and Lewis). Pisano and Lewis 1215. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#178051). Signed.

Octavo, cloth. First edition. A presentation copy with signed inscription by Moskowitz to Gerry de la Ree on the front free endpaper. Signed by artist Stephen E. Fabian below the Moskowitz inscription. Collects five short stories, "Far Future Calling," a radio play about Stapledon's Last Men, and "Interplanetary Man," Stapledon's 1948 address to the British Interplanetary Society, with a 55-page biography and memoir of Stapledon's visit to the U.S. in 1949 by Moskowitz. This is the first book publication of "Interplanetary Man," pp. 209-252, his address to the British Interplanetary Society first published in JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH INTERPLANETARY SOCIETY 7 (November 1948). "Philosophy of man's role in and motivation for space flight, by a well-known British science fiction writer. This is one of the earliest articles on this topic and a milestone in the history of the British Interplanetary Society" (Pisano and Lewis). Pisano and Lewis 1215. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#173205). Signed.