first edition
1953 · New York
by Wollheim, Donald A. (editor)
New York: The McBride Company, 1953. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects twelve stories by Arthur C. Clarke, August Derleth, Charles Beaumont, C. M. Kornbluth, Leigh Brackett, Eric Frank Russell, Walter M. Miller, Jr. and others. Includes Beaumont's "The Beautiful Woman," a dystopia in which surgical machines make ugly people beautiful. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1729. Publisher's review slip laid in. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with 35 x 25 mm chip from top edge of spine panel. (#143139) (Inventory #: 143139)