STAPLEDON, OLAF Last and first men: a story of the near and far future. London: Methuen and Co., 1930. First edition; signed, presentation copy.Blue cloth boards (20 cm. tall), scuffed, with some bubbling; gilt lettering to spine. Lacks jacket. With eight pages of ads at rear. Inscribed by Stapledon to front endpaper to W. M. Mathieson on October 28, 1930; date of Stapledon's death inscribed in pencil at bottom of said page.