SMITH, E. E. "DOC" — Second Stage Lensmen

Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1953. 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Ric Binkley. B&W Illustrations; This is a First trade edition. This is an unrecorded variant (not listed in Currey) and has a goldenrod colored cloth binding with black lettering to the spine of the book, along with a small red/ black Ying /Yang symbol underneat the lettering. The book is in Very Good condition and has a Good dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some beginning bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. This is a stated First Edition. The dust jacket has several small to medium sized edge tears, a couple of smallish chips, some associated wrinkling, and general edge wear and tear. "Smith then began work on what he intended as a new series, starting with Spacehounds of IPC, which he finished in the autumn of 1930. In this novel, he took pains to avoid the scientific impossibilities which had bothered some readers of the Skylark novels. Even in 1938, after he had written Galactic Patrol, Smith considered it his finest work. He later said of it, "This was really scientific fiction; not, like the Skylarks, pseudo-science". Even at the end of his career, he considered it his only work of true science fiction. It was published in the July through September 1931 issues of Amazing, with Sloane making unauthorized changes. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good in Good dust jacket .