Olaf Stapledon Last First Men (12 results)

SF3*? A beautiful and stunning undated modern? postcard celebrating this great science fiction book with front of the card displaying the vintage 1988 paperback cover with this editions publishing year details confirmed on reverse? making this a great souvenir unused and mint.

SF1(**)? A beautiful and stunning undated modern? postcard celebrating this great science fiction book with front of the card displaying the vintage 1937 paperback cover with this editions publishing year details confirmed on reverse? making this a great souvenir unused and mint.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Text looks free of notations/underlining. Tight spine. Light wear to the exterior. Some soiling to the top edge of the text block.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Last and First Men by W. Olaf Stapledon (First US Edition) A firm copy with mild wear to spine edges and corners. Mild sunning to parts of cover exposed from loss to jacket. Owner's name to front free endpaper. Not price-clipped. A pictorial jacket with loss to front panel and upper spine edge. Moderate soiling to rear panel and flap-folds. In clear protective cover. Copyright 1931. First published in America 1931, stated. Purple cloth with gilt lettering and blind ruling. Black top stain; Fore and bottom edges rough-trimmed. 371 pp. Author's first book. First U.S. edition, with Author's ""Foreword to the American Edition"". First binding state. A story that tells of a fortuitous future for mankind and nation-states. Arthur Hawkins Jr.(Cover Artist) (illustrator). BOOK.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 376. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1934 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 376.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The planet Neptune has been used as a reference and setting in various films and works of fiction: The first fictional visit of Neptune, portrayed as glacial but nevertheless inhabited, occurred in Spirito gentil (1889). In the Captain Future series, Neptune is portrayed as a sea planet, not out of any scientific theory but evidently because Neptune is the Roman sea god. In Olaf Stapledon's 1930 epic novel Last and First Men, Neptune is the final home of the highly evolved human race. In Hugh Walters' 1968 novel Nearly Neptune, the first manned expedition to Neptune ends in apparent disaster as a fire destroys vital equipment on board the spacecraft as it nears the planet.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Shape of Things to Come is a work of science fiction by H. G. Wells, published in 1933, which speculates on future events from 1933 until the year 2106. The book is dominated by Wells' belief in a world state as the solution to mankind's problemsRather than a novel, it is a fictional history book or chronicle, similar in style to Star Maker and Last and First Men, both by Olaf Stapledon. Wells' book also shared with Stapledon's an understanding of the change wrought in the nature of war by the development of air power; both writers included harrowing depictions of cities destroyed in aerial bombardments (by planes whose bombs also contain poison gas).…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neptune in Fiction | Neptune, Captain Future, Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men, Hugh Walters (Author), Nearly Neptune | Lambert M. Surhone (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | OmniScriptum | EAN 9786131116810 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. …

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Last and First Men | Science fiction, Olaf Stapledon, Future history, Species, Hegelian Dialectic, Civilizations, Genetic engineering, Supermind, Telepathy, Venus, Genocide, Last Men in London, Star Maker | Frederic P. Miller (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | OmniScriptum | EAN 9786130751548 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. The Shape of Things to Come | Shape of Things to Come, Science fiction, H. G. Wells, Star Maker,Last and First Men, Olaf Stapledon, Frame Story | Lambert M. Surhone (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | OmniScriptum | EAN 9786130442583 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering.