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MAGAZINE OF F&SF 1951,April
Tight and almost square; spine is flat. Very slight overall curl or upcurve to magazine at left. Very little wear / the matte finish cover has resisted wear. Age-tanning is slightly less than usual for this vintage.
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: April 1951 (Volume 2, Number 2)
Cover by George Salter.
Stories: "Interloper" by Poul Anderson
"More Than Skin Deep" by L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt (a "Gavagan's Bar" tale)
"The Last Séance" by Agatha Christie (reprint from 1926)
"The Devil Was Sick" by Bruce Elliott
"Through Channels" by Richard Matheson
"?" ($100 title contest story) by Idris Seabright (Margaret St. Clair)
"The Mathematical Voodoo" by H. Nearing, Jr. (a "C. P. Ransom" story)
"Extending the Holdings" by David Grinnell (Donald A. Wollheim)
"Miss Frost" by Christopher Wood
"The Other End" by R. Ellis Roberts (reprint from 1923)
"The Hill" by George Paul Elliott (reprint from 1948)
"'Narapoia" by Alan Nelson (reprint from GAME AND GOSSIP - 1948)
"Larroes Catch Meddlers" by Manly Wade Wellman.
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.
