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Author: Smith, Edward E., PhD. in collaboration with Mrs. Lee Hawkins Garby
Title: The Skylark of Space: The Tale of the First Inter-Stellar Cruise - The author's copy with revisions for the second edition
Place Published: [Providence, R.I.]
Publisher:[The Buffalo Book Co.]
Date Published: [1946]
Description:

303 pp. (8vo) brick-red cloth variant (no priority), dust jacket. First Edition.

The author's first book, preceded only by a pamphlet printing of a convention speech. The author's copy, with his holograph revisions for a second edition throughout. Laid in is a one page typed letter on Smith's letterhead, signed from Smith to a collector (Thyril L. Ladd) explaining the circumstances behind the revisions. "The first edition was undoubtedly the lousiest job of printing that was ever foisted off onto anybody. Hadley knew nothing whatever of either published or printing; and I don't believe that anybody pretended to read proof on it, either page-proof or galley proof. I didn't know even that the thing had been set up until after it was all printed! So there were errors on some sixty-five different pages---and it was too late to do anything about it. However, when he wanted to bring out a second edition, I really took steps. I sent him a copy, with all errors marked and a few alterations (such as that "in a clasp of steel" on page 200. Cliches like that were OK in 1928; but no longer---and I missed a few of them in revising the MS for book form) made. Then he or the printer must have used the same copy for their guide in dummying the second edition..." 

Jacket faded and with some light wear and chipping; volume lightly worn, letter in the original envelope, both creased; very good.