WALDO AND MAGIC, INC
$1,000 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available
First edition
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects two novellas, Waldo ASTOUNDING, 1942 and Magic, Inc. UNKNOWN, 1940 . 'Waldo' concerns a sick young engineer who is obliged to live in the weightless conditions of an orbiting satellite in order to compensate for his wasted muscles -- but from there he is able to solve several of Earth's problems. Real-life remote-control
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