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MAGAZINE OF F&SF 1952,August

Slight overall curl or upcurve to magazine. Moderate to noticeable overall wear including edgewear on spine, 1" upper right corner is gone from front cover, faint vertical fold-trace down middle of cover that echoes through most of the magazine. Back cover has heavy wear including many creases or wrinkles in middle (NOT moisture-related!), 1" by 1-1/2" upper left corner gone from back cover. Age-tanning is much less than average for its vintage: mild and uniform (causing me to discount some of the overall wear when grading.)

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: August 1952 (Volume 3, Number 4)
Cover by George Gibbons: "Lunar landscape."

Stories: "Hobson's Choice" by Alfred Bester
"The Ancestral Amethyst" by L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt (a "Gavagan's Bar" tale)
"W.S." by L. P. Hartley
"The Tooth" by G. Gordon Dewey
"Nine-Finger Jack" by Anthony Boucher (reprint from 1951)
"The Sling" by Richard Ashby
"The Soothsayer" by Kem Bennett
"Who Shall I Say Is Calling?" by August Derleth
"Listen" by Gordon R. Dickson
"Nor Iron Bars" by Dan Kelly & Cleve Cartmill
"Extra-Curricular" by Garen Drussai
"Stair Trick" by Mildred Clingerman
"Proof Positive" by Graham Greene (reprint from 1947)
"The Gualcophone" by Alan Nelson
"The Hour of Letdown" by E. B. White (reprint from THE NEW YORKER, 1951.)

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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