Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future
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Overview:
- Title: Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future
- Author: Olaf Stapledon
- Year: Unknown
- ISBN-10: 0140080880
- Publisher: Penguin Books
- Price: £4.50
- Pages: 327
- Binding: Trade Paperback
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: Last and First Men
- Notes:
- Printing history on copyright page:
- First published 1930
- Published in Pelican Books 1937
- Reissued in Penguin Books 1963
- Reprinted 1966
- Reissued 1987
- An edition with the same printing history is priced at £3.95.
- Cover art credits on back cover (first name is misspelled "Allan"). The cover is also signed in the bottom-right corner using the signature "ALAN".
- Foreword signed "Brian Aldiss" and "Oxford, September 1962"
- Preface signed "O. S." and "West Kirby [over] July 1930"
- A fictional essay titled "Introduction" appears on page 15, as written "By One of the Last Men". This is considered to be part of the novel and not recorded as a separate title.
- Other prices on back cover: Aust. $12.95, N.Z. $13.99, Can. $9.95
- Printing history on copyright page: