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[Edward E. "Doc" Smith, Ph.D.]. Mimeograph typescript for The Skylark of Space, with revisions throughout in the author'...
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[Edward E. "Doc" Smith, Ph.D.]. Mimeograph typescript for The Skylark of Space, with revisions throughout in the author's hand. No place, no date [but c. 1958].Large 4to (280 x 215 mm). Mimeograph typescript with holograph corrections in red and blue ink and in pencil; title-page and 244 numbered pages, double-spaced on rectos only; pages 1-141 are on cream-colored paper (now browned) and pages 142-244 are on yellow paper; title page with mimeographed copyright statement: "COPYRIGHTS / 1928: Experimenter Publishing Company. / 1946: Edward E. Smith, Ph.D. / 1947: Edward E. Smith, Ph.D. / 1950: Edward E. Smith, Ph.D." Above the copyright statement is typed: "The Skylark of Space. Completely revised by Edward E. Smith, Ph.D."; chemise and clamshell.
The Skylark of Space was the first volume in Smith's "Skylark" space opera series. It was first published serially in Amazing Stories, from August to October 1928. The first edition in book form was published by The Buffalo Book Co., Providence, Rhode Island, in 1946. A revised edition was published by Pyramid Books, New York, in 1958. This "completely revised" mimeograph typescript was likely made for the 1958 Pyramid Books revised edition.
The book "is still highly regarded and is a landmark in magazine science fiction, as the first major story of interstellar flight," (Tuck).
Condition: Cream-colored pages now browned; some chipping to edges, no loss to text; a few leaves with minor creases at old folds.
References: see Currey, p. 457 (first edition in book form); Tuck, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy II, p. 398.
Provenance: The Bob and Diane Yaspan Collection.
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