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Darkness and the Light.
by STAPLEDON, Olaf
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd,, 1942. An inscribed copy of the author's two visions for humanity First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Frank Noyce from Olaf Stapledon". This title is scarce inscribed. This science fiction novel describes two possible futures for the world, each dependent on the outcome of the success or failure of a "Tibetan Renaissance". One future involves Chinese imperialist rule and the subsequent end of the human race; the other ends in the establishment of a socialist utopia. Stapledon describes it as a expression of "two dispositions now in conflict in the world... the will for darkness and the will for light" (Preface). The recipient may be Sir Frank Noyce of the Indian Civil Service, father of Wilfrid Noyce, member of the first British Everest expedition. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in red. With dust jacket. Spine cocked and sunned with two tiny punctures, covers and edges foxed, extremities rubbed. A very good copy in a bright example of the jacket, two small tape repairs to verso, a few marks to rear panel, edges nicked and rubbed.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 160369
- Title
- Darkness and the Light.
- Author
- STAPLEDON, Olaf
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Methuen & Co. Ltd,
- Date Published
- 1942
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Octavo
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- Jacket
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- Foxed
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Sunned
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- Cloth
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- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- First Edition
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- Spine
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