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MAGAZINE OF F&SF 1953,June
Tight and almost square; flat spine. Light wear to spine; back cover has faint accumulation of dirt; front cover has almost no wear (see scans.) Age-tanning is average for this vintage: mild to moderate and uniform.
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: June 1953 (Volume 4, Number 6)
Cover by George Gibbons.
Stories: "Child by Chronos" by Charles L. Harness
"Flies" by Isaac Asimov
"It Pays to Advertise" by Kris Neville
"The Key" by Bruce A. Agnew
"The August People" by Con Pederson
"The Man Who Liked Ants" by Leslie Charteris (reprint from 1937)
"Mr. Prime" by Ralph Robin
"The Preserving Machine" by Philip K. Dick
"Strange Birth" by Arthur Porges
"First Strike" by James Blish
"Weerawannas" by W. B.Ready
"The Happy Traitor" by Morris Hershman
"The Maladjusted Classroom" by H. Nearing, Jr. (a "C. P. Ransom" story)
"The Last of the Spode" by Evelyn E. Smith.
Anthony Boucher & J. Francis McComas are Editors. Includes index to Volume 4: January 1953 to June 1953. 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.
