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MAGAZINE OF F&SF 1952,September
Slight overall curl or upcurve to magazine. Spine is flat with some edgewear (hints of raised wrinkles - as printed, and barely noticeable.) Age-tanning is slightly less than average for this vintage.
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: September 1952 (Volume 3, Number 5)
Cover by Ed Emshwiller (for "Mother")
Stories: "Budding Explorer" by Ralph Robin
"Hilda" by H. B. Hickey
"Ganymedeus Sapiens: Modern Scientific Dilemma" by Kenneth R. Deardorf
"Mother" by Alfred Coppel
"The Facticious Pentangle" by H. Nearing, Jr. (a "C. P. Ransom" story)
"Extracts from a Bibliomaniac's Journal" by Harry Lawton
"The Good Provider" by Marion Gross (reprint from 1946)
"The Fly" by Arthur Porges
"The Mist" by Peter Cartur
"Three Day Magic" by Charlotte Armstrong (novelet [novella]; reprint from 1948.)
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.
