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[Edward E. "Doc" Smith, Ph.D.]. Holograph manuscript for the sixth and final volume in the Lensman series, Children of the...
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[Edward E. "Doc" Smith, Ph.D.]. Holograph manuscript for the sixth and final volume in the Lensman series, Children of the Lens, with revisions throughout in the author's hand. No place, no date [but c. 1947].Large 4to (280 x 215 mm). 228, [14] numbered pages, written in pencil primarily on rectos only on yellow paper (pages 221-228 are written in ink); pages 59-60 are typescript (ribbon copy), pages 78-88 are written in pencil on smaller ruled paper, and the final fourteen pages ("CHAPTER XXVII, The Power of Love") are typescript (ribbon copy) on yellow paper with three holes punched in the left margin, and are lettered "a"-"n"; chemise and clamshell.
Children of the Lens, the sixth and concluding volume of the Lensman series, was first published serially in Astounding Science-Fiction, from November 1947 to February 1948. The first edition in book form, with illustrations by Ric Binkley, was published in 1954 by Fantasy Press in Reading, Pennsylvania.
Condition: Light soiling throughout; pencil occasionally smudged, not affecting legibility; a few minor creases; a few minor chips in margins, not affecting text, and most notable on the final leaf.
References: see Chalker and Owings, The Science-Fantasy Publishers, pp. 161-162, and Currey, p. 456 (for the first edition in book form).
Provenance: The Bob and Diane Yaspan Collection.
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