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Ralph 124C 41+: a romance of the year 2660. Boston: The Stratford Company, 1925. First edition thus.
Ralph 124C 41+: a romance of the year 2660. New York: Frederick Fell, 1950. Second edition; association copy.
Blue cloth boards (21 cm. tall), with gilt lettering to front board and spine. With full jacket, noticeabley worn, with minor staining to verso. Contemporary ownership inscription to front endpaper. Some strain to gutter. Illustrated with frontispiece and ten black-and-white plates, along with several engravings.
Cloth boards (21 cm. tall), lettered in red, with price-clipped jacket; otherwise in fine condition. With a half-page inscription from the author on front endpaper to Frank E. Mullen, “one of the oldest radio pioneers;” dated New York, 1950.
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From the author whose name was appropriated for the annual Hugo Awards, being granted to the best science fiction or fantasy works. This publication of the prophetic Ralph includes significant textual changes from the earlier magazine appearance in 1911. Property from the Collection of Ronald Kuntz, Sugar Grove, Illinois $600-800
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This second edition, with a new preface from Gernsback, also features forewards by Fletcher Pratt and Lee de Forest, “the father of radio.” Property from the Collection of Ronald Kuntz, Sugar Grove, Illinois $600-800
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