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PROPHETIC SCIENCE-FICTION CLASSIC GERNSBACK, HUGO. Ralph 124C 41+. A Romance of the Year 2660. Illustrated with 11 plates by Frank R. Paul. 8vo, publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles, very light rubbing to spine tips and corners, joints with faint ink marks; dust jacket, corners clipped with $2.00 price and all text intact, tape repairs on verso along folds and spine panel ends with very slight nicks at front and rear flap folds, light creasing and finger soiling but still attractive; signed Roy V. Hunt bookplate tipped to front pastedown. Boston: The Stratford Company, 1925
signed first edition and a handsome copy of one of the foundational texts in the science-fiction pantheon. The inscription "Sincerely yours" above the signature apparently in second, unknown hand. Gernsback originally serialized this work in his Modern Electrics magazine, and also founded the pioneering journal Amazing Stories. The annual Hugo Awards, named in his honor, continue to highlight his contributions to the formation of science-fiction as a viable literary genre. Signed, unsophisticated, unrestored copies of this title are uncommon at auction; the last copy we could locate sold at Swann Galleries in 1992. Currey's binding state A, with "Stratford" at base of spine measuring 1.5 cm.
