GERNSBACK, HUGO (FOREWORD BY FLETCHER PRATT AND LEE DE FOREST) — Ralph 124c 41+

New York, NY: Crest Book, 1958. 1st Paperback Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. This is a mass market paperback book. The book is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and wear. The top spine end of the book cover has some chipping, especially to the joints. There is a tiny tear to the bottom front spine joint. The text pages are mostly clean and bright. "Ralph 124C 41 +, by Hugo Gernsback, is an early science fiction novel, written as a twelve-part serial in Modern Electrics magazine, which Gernsback edited, beginning in April 1911. It was compiled into novel/book form in 1925. While it pioneered many ideas found in later science fiction, it has been critically panned for its "inept writing." The title contains a gramogram, meaning "One to foresee for one another." In the introduction to the first volume of Science-Fiction Plus, dated March 1953, Gernsback called for patent reform to give science fiction authors the right to create patents for ideas without having patent models because many of their ideas predated the technical progress needed to develop specifications for their ideas. The introduction referenced the numerous prescient technologies described throughout Ralph 124C 41+." (from Wikipedia). Very Good- .