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MAGAZINE OF F&SF 1955,January
Tight and almost square; flat spine. Not much wear - except for the spine, which has 10 to 20 small scrapes or abrasions heaviest for top/bottom 1" and 1-1/2" area in middle (see scan #3 - which is a spine-view of the whole year.) Age-tanning is slightly less than usual for this vintage.
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: January 1955 (Volume 8, Number 1)
Cover by Nick Solovioff (for "The Tournament")
Stories: "Selection" by J. T. McIntosh (novelet)
"The Potato Cake" by Pauline Clarke
"The Tournament" by William Samson
"The Expert" by Mack Reynolds
"One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts" by Shirley Jackson
"Single Combat" by Robert Abernathy
"The Glass of the Future" (verse) by Herman W. Mudgett
"The Royal Historian of Oz" (article - part 1 of 2) by Martin Gardner
"The Girl in the Ice" by Emyr Humphries (reprint from 1953)
"The Shopdropper" by Alan Nelson
"The Singing Bell" by Isaac Asimov (the first "Wendell Urth" story)
"Lament by a Maker" (verse) by L. Sprague de Camp
"Blind Man's Hood" by John Dickson Carr (reprint from 1940.)
Joseph W. Ferman is Publisher, Anthony Boucher is Editor. Book Reviews by Anthony Boucher.
