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London: Methuen, 1932. First edition, first impression (1518 copies printed), this one of 237 issued with the second dust jacket (light green paper stock with trident on front panel), priced 3/6. viii, 312 pp., with 8-page catalogue dated 932 at back. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue cloth, front panel ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. A bright, fine copy in bright, near fine second state dust jacket, with some tanning to spine panel and top edge of rear panel and flap folds. A choice copy. First edition, first impression (1518 copies printed), this one of 237 issued with the second dust jacket (light green paper stock with trident on front panel), priced 3/6. viii, 312 pp., with 8-page catalogue dated 932 at back. 1 vols. 8vo. Stapledon's second novel, written as a companion piece to his Last and First Men (1930). One of Stapledon's most powerful and personal novels. In 333; Reginald 13556; Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-57, (1981) 2-98;, (1987)…

Last Men in London is a science fiction novel by Olaf Stapledon, first published in 1932. It is a sequel to Last and First Men.

First editions have a red cloth cover with black lettering on the spine and the publishers' insignia on the front.