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MAGAZINE OF F&SF 1951,October

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: October 1951 (Volume 2, Number 5)
Cover by George Salter.

Stories: "Of Time and Third Avenue" by Alfred Bester
"The Gorge of the Churels" by H. Russell Wakefield
"The Shape of Things That Came" by Richard Deming
"Achilles Had His Heel" by Joseph H. Gage
"The Rag Thing" by David Grinnell (Donald A. Wollheim)
"The Cocoon" by Richard Brookbank
"The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles" by Idris Seabright (Margaret St. Clair)
"Beasts of Bourbon" by L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt (a "Gavagan's Bar" tale)
"Jane Brown's Body" by Cornell Woolrich (reprint from 1938; novella)
"Dress of White Silk" by Richard Matheson.

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.


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