Far Future Calling
by STAPLEDON, Olaf
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Winchester, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Philadelphia: Oswald Train, 1979. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); purple cloth stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 275pp. Slight discoloration to corner of rear board, else Fine copy. Fine, pictorial unclipped dustjacket (priced $12.95); faint rubbing to rear panel of jacket. The uncollected science fiction and fantasy stories of Olaf Stapledon.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 51614
- Title
- Far Future Calling
- Author
- STAPLEDON, Olaf
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Oswald Train
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1979
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; Fantasy - Lost Race - Science Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...