Stapledon olaf et al (6 risultati)

Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Minor edgewear and creasing of spine and covers,as well some age toning, otherwise still a fair reading copy.

single_issue_magazine. Condizione: Acceptable. Shows moderate wear, tear, tanning, staining, wraps detached.

Condizione: Near Fine. HU.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, hardcover, the binding is a bit loose but remains solid, the book has light bumps to the spine ends, mild sunning to the head, some spots and smudges to the edges of the text block, and a couple notations from previous owners to the front and rear end pages. Otherwise, this is a solid, bright Near Very Good copy in an unclipped, Good only dust jacket, which has short chips and tears to the spine ends, corners and edges, a couple areas of sticker remnants, rubbing to the covers, very faint soiling to the lower third of the front, and a previous owner's acquisition notes to the inside of the back cover. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar.…

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1960. First Edition. June, 1960 issue, Vol.9, No. 6. 7 1/2" x 5 3/8", 130 pp. Illustrated wraps. Age toning to the pages, as always; small edge chips, some scattered soiling. Very Good. Having by this time become a clearly-focused science-fiction periodical, Fantastic Science Fiction Stories was by the time of this May, 1960 issue edited by Cele Goldsmith. Magazine founder Howard Browne had established the periodical in 1952, naming it Fantasy - one of the small forest of pulp fiction-era periodicals whose magazine names were often so similar as to be confusing. This one, established by Browne in 1952, itself bore a variety of names, from Fantastic to Fantastic Science Fiction, Fantastic Science Fiction Stories, Fantastic Stories of Imagination, Fantastic: Science Fiction - Fantasy and Fantastic Stories, all as part of the effort by Browne, in both title and content, to maximize the interested demographic. Not affiliated with this magazine were the similar pulp titles Fantastic Novels, Fantastic Science Fiction (an unrelated two-issue 1952 effort bearing a title identical name to one of the above Ziff-Davis titles], Fantastic Story Magazine, Fantastic Story Quarterly, Fantastic Universe, and the elder statesmen of pulps beginning with "Fantastic", Fantastic Adventures and Famous Fantastic Mysteries. Goldsmith's editorial predecessor Paul W. Fairman, less diffident about science fiction than Browne, gave the magazine a greater focus in that direction during his watch. By the time of Goldsmith's tenure, the semi-lurid symbols of female pulchritude which almost always bedecked the covers of pulp periodicals were gone, and, as with this issue, straight sci-fi illustrations had become the cover art of Fantastic Science Fiction Stories. The lead story in this issue is Alan Nourse's "The Mirror", illustrated by Burt Shonberg's cover painting. Others herein: "No End of Time", (Phyllis Gotlieb); "Side Effect" (Joseph D. Laven); "The Fiftieth Year of April" (Arthur Porges); "Drive Out of Mind" (Dan Morgan); and Sam Moskowitz' 15-page look at British social philosopher and SF writer [William] Olaf Stapledon, "Olaf Stapledon: Cosmic Philosopher". A small piece of pulp sci-fi history, in nice condition. L53 n. Burt Shonberg (illustratore).…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. None. First Edition. Contain first publications by legendary Sci-Fi writer Olaf Stapledon, including "Ad Astra," as wells a many works by Mona Dickson, S. Fowler Wright and other Edwardian poets.