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MAGAZINE OF F&SF 1953,January

Tight and square; flat spine. Light overall wear. Age-tanning is average for this vintage: mild to moderate and uniform.

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: January 1953 (Volume 4, Number 1)
Cover by Alex Schomburg: Earth's Arificial Satellite.

Stories: "The Big Holiday" by Fritz Leiber
"The Footprint" by Mabel Seeley
"Perfect Creature" by John Wyndham
"The Mask of Demeter" by Martin Pearson & Cecil Corwin (Donald A. Wollheim & C. M. Kornbluth)
"New Ritual" by Idris Seabright (Margaret St. Clair)
"When the Devil Took the Professor" by Kurd Lasswitz (translated by Willy Ley; written in 1895, this is the 1st English translation of any Lasswitz.)
"The Last Magician" by Bruce Elliott
"The Isle of Voices" by Robert Louis Stevenson (reprint from ????)
"Joy Ride" by William Campbell Gault
"What Shadows We Pursue" by Russell Kirk
"The Chocolate Coach" by Doris Gilbert.

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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