THE BEST OF SCIENCE FICTION

by Groff Conklin

$200 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

New York: Crown Publishers, 1946 . Octavo, pp. 1-2: blank i-v vi-xi xii-xiv xv-xxviii 1-2 3-785 786: blank , publisher's light blue cloth stamped in black. First edition. Collects forty stories by Lewis Padgett, Clifford D. Simak, Robert A. Heinlein, John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, and many others. One of the earliest reprint anthologies of short SF. Anatomy of Wonder 1995

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