STAPLEDON (W.Olaf).

Last and First Men. A Story of the Near and Far Future.

Second edition. 8vo., original blue cloth. London, Methuen, 1931.

£350.00

With a loosely inserted ALS from the author, dated 3rd April 1931 to Canon Charles Raven, thanking him for kind remarks about the book: “Also, as one who delights in birds, I recognise in you incomparably [sic] more entertaining ornithologist than myself”. Raven was Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge and the author of a number of works on Theology and Natural History. Raven’s ownership inscription on the front free endpaper. An excellent copy.

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