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Published by New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc. 1st Edition, 1950
Seller: John McCormick, Mississauga, ON, Canada
First Edition
Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Miller (front cover) (illustrator). First Edition. ----------pulp magazine, digest size. Notable stories in this issue are The Lion and the Lamb by Leiber, and The Sack by Samachson. Some edgewear, a near fine copy. Back cover advertisement is for the book Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard.
Published by Street & Smith Publications, Inc., New York, 1943
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Cover art by William Timmins for "Clash by Night" (illustrator). 1st Edition. "Bedsheet" (8-3/8 X 11-3/8 inches; 21 X 29 cm.) classic 1940s pulp magazine edited by John W. Campbell, Jr. Includes "Clash by Night" (novelette) by Lawrence O'Donnell (actually Henry Kuttner & C.L. Moore); "The Weapon Makers" (of Isher, second of three parts) by A. E. van Vogt; "Shadow of Life" (novelette) by Clifford D. Simak; "Shock," by Lewis Padgett (again C.L. Moore & Henry Kuttner), and the robot tale "Q.U.R." by H. H. Holmes (William Anthony Parker White, who also wrote as Anthony Boucher.) These classic, 80-year-old pulp magazines present a quandary. Some miraculously preserved copies in "fine" or "near fine" condition -- unlike this one, and now often priced in the $100 range -- do survive. Southern Illinois University even appears to have reprinted one or more as hardcovers in facsimile. But what to do with one of these more typical survivors, "poor to fair," all present, pages readable and only moderately age-toned, but with edges chipping, and with the wraps (glossy covers) and final couple of pages separated? We decline to throw it away, and so it's offered here as a "research or study copy," though we must stress that -- while it's all here -- it has begun to fall apart. Reduced from $12.50.