FAR FUTURE CALLING: UNCOLLECTED SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASIES OF OLAF STAPLEDON. Edited with an authorized biography by Sam Moskowitz. Philadelphia: Oswald Train: Publisher, 1979. 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).
Price: $250.00
First edition so stated on copyright page.