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MAGAZINE OF F&SF 1954,August
Tight with 1/8" tilt. Spine is flat with minor edgewear, wear at top; 1/2" splits at joins of covers next to bottom of spine. Light wear to front cover, heavier wear to back cover. Age-tanning is mild to moderate and uniform - average for its vintage.
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: August 1954 (Volume 7, Number 2)
Cover by Mel Hunter: Exploring a green star system; 3 illustrations (for Bester, Henderson) by Solovioff.
Stories: "Fondly Fahrenheit" by Alfred Bester (short novelet)
"The Devil and Simon Flagg" by Arthur Porges
"Gilead" by Zenna Henderson (novelet; "People" series)
"Frustrated Frankenstein: Alfonso Herrera and His Colpoids" (article) by Miriam Allen DeFord
"The Invisible Wall" by Richard Brookbank
"Command Performance" by Kay Rogers
"Two-Bit Oracle" by Doris P. Buck
"The Sexual Behavior of the Extra-Sensory Perceptor" (verse) by Herman Mudgett
"The Quadropticon" by Charles Beaumont (short novelet)
"The Little Black Train" by Manly Wade Wellman ("John the Balladeer" series.)
Anthony Boucher & J. Francis McComas are Editors. Book Reviews by "the editors."
