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MAGAZINE OF F&SF 1951,December
Tight and almost square; spine is flat with a faint ridge or crease from glue-settling with age, and 2 tiny bits of edgewear near bottom. Very little wear to the rest. Age-tanning is average for this vintage.
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: December 1951 (Volume 2, Number 6)
Stories: "When the Last Gods Die" by Fritz Leiber
"The Haunted Ticker" by Percival Wilde (reprint from 1923)
"O Ugly Bird!" by Manly Wade Wellman (begins "John the Balladeer" series.)
"The Rats" by Arthur Porges (reprint from 1950)
"Built Down Logically" by Howard Schoenfeld
"The Earlier Service" by Margaret Irwin (reprint from 1935)
"The Universe Broke Down" by Robert Arthur (reprint from 1941)
"Come on, Wagon!" by Zenna Henderson (her first short fiction)
"The House in Arbor Lane" by James S. Hart
"Ganymedeus Sapiens: a Pictorial Essay" by Kenneth R. Deardorf (reprint)
"The Hyperspherical Basketball" by H. Nearing, Jr. (a "C. P. Ransom" story).
Anthony Boucher & J. Francis McComas are Editors. Book Reviews by "the editors." Contains Index to Volume 2. The first 4 issues of F&SF were quarterly, then it was bimonthly until August 1952, then monthly… for decades.
