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MAGAZINE OF F&SF 1952,October
Tight and almost square; spine is flat. Very light wear. No stamps, marks or writing on interior. Back cover has a 1" smear of (white paint?) at lower left corner, and a ghostly trace 1" wide along right side next to spine. If I had to guess or speculate, maybe 40 years ago there was a 2" wide protective paper? protector attached/wrapped-across spine with rubber cement? Whatever it was - it is long gone, and so are most traces (see scans.)
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: October 1952 (Volume 3, Number 6)
Cover by Chesley Bonestell ("Saturn, as seen from Dionne.")
Stories: "Grenville's Planet" by Michael Shaara
"The Black Ball" by L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt (a "Gavagan's Bar" tale)
"Talents" by J. T. M'Intosh
"The Unpleasantness at Bludleigh Court" by P. G. Wodehouse (reprint from 1929)
"The First" by Anthony Boucher
"Old Man Morgan's Grave" by Miriam Allen DeFord
"The Darker Drink" by Leslie Charteris (reprint from 1948; "Saint" series - and Fantasy)
"An Egg a Month From All Over" by Idris Seabright (Margaret St. Clair)
"Aunt Agatha" by Doris P. Buck
"Ararat" by Zenna Henderson (first in the "People" series)
"The Third Level" by Jack Finney (reprint from COLLIERS, 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.
