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Author: Tayler, J. Lionel
Title: The Last of My Race: A Dream of the Future
Place Published: Lincoln/London
Publisher:J.W. Ruddock and Sons/Simpkin Marshall
Date Published: 1924
Description: [6], 131, [1] pp. (8vo) original red cloth, dust jacket. First Edition.Very scarce proto-science fiction novel. After awakening from suspended animation the twentieth-century narrator finds himself, three hundred millennia hence, in a world whose multiple transformations are grounded in unending evolution. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction states, “Without its debilitating conclusion, the narrative reads as a worthy precursor of the cosmic histories soon to be composed by Olaf Stapledon.“ Rare in the original jacket. With the decorative bookplate of Jonathan Ogden Armour, American meatpacking magnate and only surviving son of Civil War-era industrialist Philip Danforth Armour.

Jacket with some soiling, chipping at edges and flap folds; discoloration to cloth, top corners bumped; very good.