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MAGAZINE OF F&SF 1953,March
Tight and almost square; flat spine. Light overall wear. Glue(?) traces/stains next to spine front & back (see scans.) No glue was used for repair, so how it got there is a mystery - they look very old. Age-tanning is moderate and uniform (a little worse than average.)
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: March 1953 (Volume 4, Number 3)
Cover by Chesley Bonestell ("The fleet leaves Mars' inner satellite…")
Stories: "The Other Inauguration" by Anthony Boucher
"The Monsters" by Robert Sheckley
"Shepherd's Boy" by Richard Middleton
"Disappearing Act" by Richard Matheson
"Inefficiency Expert" by Ralph Robin
"Able to Zebra" by Wilson Tucker
"The Sorcerer's Apprentice" by Leslie Bigelow
"The Malignant Organ" by H. Nearing, Jr. (a "C. P. Ransom" story)
"The Cat Was Black" by Tom Browne
"Thirsty God" by Idris Seabright (Margaret St. Clair)
"The Wheelbarrow Boy" by Richard Parker
"Vandy, Vandy" by Manly Wade Wellman ("John the Balladeer" series.)
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.
