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CHILDREN OF THE LENS.
Reading, Pennsylvania: Fantasy Press, Inc., [1954]. Octavo, cloth. First edition, trade issue, later binding of gray cloth with spine lettered in black. The sixth book of the Lensman series. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1052. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1183-87.
THE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION: TRIPLANETARY, FIRST LENSMAN, GALACTIC PATROL, GRAY LENSMAN, SECOND STAGE LENSMEN, and CHILDREN OF THE LENS.
Reading, Pennsylvania: Fantasy Press, Inc., 1955. Octavo, six volumes, leather-backed cloth. Limited edition. One of 75 sets (number 25), each volume with inserted numbered limitation leaf signed by Smith. This first volume warmly inscribed to a long time friend. Collects the six-volume "Lensman" series comprising TRIPLANETARY, FIRST LENSMAN, GALACTIC PATROL, GRAY LENSMAN, SECOND STAGE LENSMEN, and CHILDREN OF THE LENS. "The greatest of the early golden age space opera." - Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-355. "The space opera to end all space operas, with humans and aliens arrayed (some on each side) in a cosmic war of Good and Evil ..." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-167. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1183-87.
THE VORTEX BLASTER.
Hicksville, New York: Gnome Press, Inc., [1960]. Octavo, cloth. First edition, trade issue. Second binding of gray cloth with spine panel lettered in red. Not part of the Lensman series, but set in the same universe, with several Lensmen as characters.
BEST OF E. E. DOC SMITH.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, [1975, i.e. January 1976]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. Warmly inscribed and signed to Fantasy Press publisher Lloyd [Arthur Eshbach] on the front free end paper by Smith's daughter Verna. Eight stories and an article, "The Epic of Space," by Smith, plus preface by Philip Harbottle, foreword by Walter Gillings, and a checklist of Smith's writings.