ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION - Volume 53, number 2 - April 1954
Campbell, John W. (editor) (E. B. Cole; Chad Oliver; Robert Abernathy; Joseph Whitehill; Hal Lynch; Wallace West; Murray Leinster)
Published by Street and Smith, New York, 1954
- First Edition
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: WF Sandercombe, Burlington, ON, CanadaWF Sandercombe
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162 pp. Digest format. Edge and corner wear with a crease on the front hinge; no interior markings. Cover art by Kelly Freas; interiors by Freas, Doore, and van Dongen. This issue contains: Novelettes: Fighting Philosopher by E. B. Cole; Rite of Passage by Chad Oliver; The Thousandth Year by Robert Abernathy. Short Stories: Marshmallow World by Joseph Whitehill; Age of Retirement by Hal Lynch. And Articles: Washday Minus Zero by Wallace West; and To Build a Robot Brain by Murray Leinster; followed by the usual features, including the John W. Campbell editorial: Information on Age and a somewhat lengthy letter from Poul Anderson in Brass Tacks. Size: 12mo.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION - Volume 53, number 2 - April 1954
- Author
- Campbell, John W. (editor) (E. B. Cole; Chad Oliver; Robert Abernathy; Joseph Whitehill; Hal Lynch; Wallace West; Murray Leinster)
- Publisher
- Street and Smith, New York
- Publication year
- 1954
- Condition
- Very Good
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Illustrator
- Kelly Freas; Doore; van Dongen;
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Fantasy and Science Fiction
WF Sandercombe
Burlington, ON, Canada
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