Jun 20, 2013 - Sale 2319

Sale 2319 - Lot 274

Price Realized: $ 1,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
DONALD WOLLHEIM COPY STUART, W.J. Forbidden Planet. 8vo, original yellow cloth, faint trace of rubbing along extremities; dust jacket, very mild overall rubbing with thin area of age-toning along upper flap edges; Donald A. Wollheim rubberstamp on rear free endpaper. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, (1956)
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first edition and a good association of a near fine to fine copy in like dust jacket. Ex-collection Donald Wollheim, a major science-fiction figure eminent both as a writer and editor who "was one of the pioneering fan publishers in the 1930s...and was a founding member of the original Futurian society" (Smith, p. 597). The novelization based on the classic 1956 film. Scarce.