Author: GERNSBACK, HUGO (FOREWORD BY FLETCHER PRATT ANDF LEE DE FOREST)
Title: Ralph 124c 41+, Thrilling Adventures in the Year 2660
Description: New York, NY: FREDERICK FELL, INC, 1950. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mosty clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book cover, along with a thin line of darkening / toning to the edges. The text pages are generally clean and bright, though there is some light generalized toning, especially to the page edges. The endpapers have a small patch of noticeable toning to the top edges (both front and rear). The dust jacket is generally clean , but has spots of rubbing and wear to the spine ends and corners, and there are spots of foxing to the spine and to the rear cover (especially the top rear panel). "Gernsback provided a forum for the modern genre of science fiction in 1926 by founding the first magazine dedicated to it, Amazing Stories. The inaugural April issue comprised a one-page editorial and reissues of six stories, three less than ten years old and three by Poe, Verne, and Wells. He said he became interested in the concept after reading a translation of the work of Percival Lowell as a child. His idea of a perfect science fiction story was "75 percent literature interwoven with 25 percent science". As an editor, he valued the goal of scientific accuracy in science fiction stories: "Not only did Gernsback establish a panel of experts——all reputable professionals from universities, museums, and institutes—to pass judgment on the accuracy of the science; he also encouraged his writers to elaborate on the scientific details they employed in their stories, comment on the impossibilities in each other's stories, and even offered his readers prize money for identifying scientific errors." (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .
Keywords: Science Fiction And Fantasy Hugo Gernsback Fletcher Pratt Lee De Forest Fell's Science Fiction Library Amazing Magazine
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Title: Ralph 124c 41+, Thrilling Adventures in the Year 2660
Description: New York, NY: FREDERICK FELL, INC, 1950. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mosty clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book cover, along with a thin line of darkening / toning to the edges. The text pages are generally clean and bright, though there is some light generalized toning, especially to the page edges. The endpapers have a small patch of noticeable toning to the top edges (both front and rear). The dust jacket is generally clean , but has spots of rubbing and wear to the spine ends and corners, and there are spots of foxing to the spine and to the rear cover (especially the top rear panel). "Gernsback provided a forum for the modern genre of science fiction in 1926 by founding the first magazine dedicated to it, Amazing Stories. The inaugural April issue comprised a one-page editorial and reissues of six stories, three less than ten years old and three by Poe, Verne, and Wells. He said he became interested in the concept after reading a translation of the work of Percival Lowell as a child. His idea of a perfect science fiction story was "75 percent literature interwoven with 25 percent science". As an editor, he valued the goal of scientific accuracy in science fiction stories: "Not only did Gernsback establish a panel of experts——all reputable professionals from universities, museums, and institutes—to pass judgment on the accuracy of the science; he also encouraged his writers to elaborate on the scientific details they employed in their stories, comment on the impossibilities in each other's stories, and even offered his readers prize money for identifying scientific errors." (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .
Keywords: Science Fiction And Fantasy Hugo Gernsback Fletcher Pratt Lee De Forest Fell's Science Fiction Library Amazing Magazine
Price: US$ 75.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 50588
- Book number: 50588
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