The Golden Years of Science Fiction: Fourth Series

First printing of this edition. Very good book in like dust jacket. Black boards, gilt print on spine; spine and boards bumped. Pages clean, unmarked, tanning. Bonanza hard cover, with dust jacket, first printing 1984, complete number line. ISBN: 9780517447352, 632 pages. 8vo (9.25" x 6") First hardcover edition; originally published as two separate paperback volumes entitled "Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 7 (1945)" and "Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 8 (1946)". Introduction is the combined contents of the two introductions to the individual volumes, then each story follows in order of original publication with individual introductions by both editors. Contents: The Waveries, by Fredric Brown; The Piper's Son, by Lewis Padgett; Wanted - An Enemy, by Fritz Leiber; Blind Alley, by Isaac Asimov; Correspondence Course, by Raymond F. Jones; First Contact, by Murray Leinster; The Vanishing Venusians, by Leigh Brackett; Into Thy Hands, by Lester del Rey; Camouflage, by Lewis Padgett; The Power, by Murray Leinster; Giant Killer, by A. Bertram Chandler; What You Need, by Lewis Padgett; A Logic Named Joe, by Murray Leinster; Memorial, by Theodore Sturgeon; Loophole, by Arthur C. Clarke; The Nightmare, by Chan Davis; Rescue Party, by Arthur C. Clarke; Placet Is a Crazy Place, by Fredric Brown; Conquerors' Isle, by Nelson S. Bond; Lorelei of the Red Mist, by Leigh Brackett and Ray Bradbury; October 2026ãThe Million-Year Picnic, by Ray Bradbury; The Last Objective, by Paul A. Carter; Meihem in ce Klasrum, essay by Dolton Edwards; Vintage Season, by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore; Evidence, by Isaac Asimov; Technical Error, by Arthur C. Clarke. …