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MAGAZINE OF F&SF 1951,February
Tight and almost square; spine is flat. Very slight overall curl or upcurve to magazine at left. Light overall wear, mostly on back cover / the matte finish front cover has resisted wear. Age-tanning is average for this vintage (or slightly less.)
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: February 1951 (Volume 2, Number 1)
Cover by George Salter.
Stories: "John the Revelator" by Oliver La Farge
"One of the Family" by R. Bretnor
"Temporarily at Liberty" by Lawrence Goldman
"Journey" by Gene Hunter
"The One Who Waits" by Ray Bradbury (reprint from THE ARKHAM SAMPLER - 1949)
"My Brother's Wife" by Wilson Tucker
"The Friendly Demon" by Daniel Defoe (reprint)
"The Roommate" by Graves Taylor
"'No-Sided Professor" by Martin Gardner (reprint from ESQUIRE - Jan,1947)
"The Kraken" (poem) by Alfred Tennyson (not on contents-page)
"Barney" by Will Stanton
"The Railway Carriage" by F. Tennyson Jesse (reprint from 1950)
"Time Tourist" by Maurice Murphy
"Episode of the Perilous Talisman" by Jeremiah Phelan.
Anthony Boucher & J. Francis McComas are Editors. Book Reviews by "the editors." The first 4 issues of F&SF were quarterly, then it was bimonthly until August 1952, then monthly… for decades.
