Book cover for 'Future Times Three' by Rene Barjavel, featuring a dark background with abstract multicolored rope-like lines and large orange title text.
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Half titleof the book 'Future Times Three' by Rene Barjavel, translated by Margaret Sansone Scouten, published by Award Books and Tangem Books. The cover is a light off-white color with dark blue text and publisher logos at the bottom.
The back cover of a book titled 'FUTURE TIMES THREE.
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Book cover for 'Future Times Three' by Rene Barjavel, featuring a dark background with abstract multicolored rope-like lines and large orange title text.A close-up of a book's printed copyright page on textured off-white paper, with small black text near the bottom and a warm yellow cast on the right side of the page.Half titleof the book 'Future Times Three' by Rene Barjavel, translated by Margaret Sansone Scouten, published by Award Books and Tangem Books. The cover is a light off-white color with dark blue text and publisher logos at the bottom.The back cover of a book titled 'FUTURE TIMES THREE.

Vintage 1968 "Future Times Three" by René Barjavel (First Award Books Edition)

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Description

Author: René Barjavel
Translator: Margaret Sansone Scouten
Publisher: Award Books / Universal Publishing & Distributing Corp.
Place: New York
Year: 1968
Edition/Statement: First Award Books Edition
Format: Vintage Mass Market Paperback
Cover Art: Uncredited
Condition: Very Good vintage condition. An attractive, well-preserved copy with bright cover graphics and a tight, square binding. Moderate shelf and edge wear consistent with age, including light rubbing to the covers and extremities. Interior pages are clean with uniform age toning. Carefully evaluated using recognized bookselling standards and protected in an archival-quality sleeve.

Description
This 1968 mass-market paperback represents the first appearance in English of Le Voyageur Imprudent, a seminal masterpiece of European speculative fiction by French pioneer René Barjavel. Originally published in France during the German occupation, this novel is historically recognized by scholars as the first literary work to formally introduce and explore the "grandfather paradox" of time travel.
The plot maps out a scientist's calculated experiments with a chronological transit device, moving from the baseline of human history into a remote, deeply unsettling future where human anatomy and social architecture have evolved into unrecognizable biological castes. Barjavel moves past the simple mechanical adventures common to early pulp science fiction, delivering a philosophically complex meditation on causality, historical alteration, and human destiny. This volume stands as a crucial acquisition for collectors of vintage science fiction, mid-century paperbacks, and translated international speculative literature.
Why This Copy Belongs in Your Collection
  • First English Printing State: Published by Award Books in 1968, this edition preserves the original translated text block by Margaret Sansone Scouten, presenting an essential historical marker for global sci-fi collections.


  • Uncommon Mid-Century Imprint: Award Books science fiction releases had significantly smaller commercial distribution channels than major American houses like Ace or Bantam, making well-preserved examples inherently scarcer on the modern market.
Curated Vintage Condition Notes
  • Condition: Very Good vintage condition.
  • Details: The original illustrated wrappers remain flat, square, and highly vivid, showing only honest, minor edge handling and light surface rubbing consistent with its age. The spine is structurally tight and square, showing an uncreased or carefully handled state. The internal text block is solid, holding clean pages that display uniform, natural age-toning typical of 1960s pulp paper stock. Completely free of contemporary signatures, library tracking stamps, or intrusive annotations.
  • Preservation: Carefully preserved and supplied directly to you housed inside a premium archival protective sleeve to shield it from ambient wear.