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Comment by ppint.:

contents:
© date of 1954 = original publication in this collection sfaik

introduction (nf) fredric brown 1954
pattern (short story) 1954
placet is a crazy place (ss) asf vol. xxxvii #3, 5/1946, two b+w illustrations by swenson; asf atlas bre vol. v #6, 9/1946
answer (ss) 1954
etaoin shrdlu (ss) unknown vol. v #5, 2/1942, with two b+w illustrations by paul orban
preposterous (ss) 1954
armageddon (ss) unknown vol. v #2, 8/1941, one b+w illustration by ed cartier; argosy uk 5/1956
politeness (ss) 1954, reprinted in playboy 3/1957
the waveries (ss) asf vol. xxxiv #5, 1/1945, two b+w illustrations by paul orban; argosy uk 4/1954
reconciliation (ss) 1954
the hat trick (ss) as by "felix graham" unknown vol. vi #5, 2/1943, two b+w illustrations by ed cartier
search (ss) 1954
letter to a phoenix (ss) asf vol. xxxxiii #6, 8/1949, one b+w illustration by paul orban
daisies (ss) 1954
the angelic angleworm (novelette) unknown vol. vi #5, 2/1943, four b+w illustrations by m. isip
sentence (ss) 1954
the yehudi principle (ss) asf vol.33 #3, 5/1944, two b+w illustrations by newton h. alfred
solipsist (ss) 1954

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Comment by MICKDOOM67:

Front and rear images added.

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Comment by David Whiteley:

Added back cover, and, with acknowledgement to nanocyar a better front cover.

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Comment by ppint.:

hmph. i've just this week discovered that i've been labouring for sixty years under the misapprehension that this novel's title was "when they came from space" - and this, despite my evidently having typed it up correctly from time to time during these six decades. . .

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Comment by ppint.:

serialised in amazing vol.36 #1, #2; 1/1962, 2/1962 as ''pawn of the black fleet''†
each episode with two b+w illustrations by virgil finlay (and b+w back cover art by him (?))


† - republished under this title as half an armchair fiction "double" tp/b (2011), q.v.

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Comment by David Whiteley:

Added back cover, and, with acknowledgement to nanocyar a slightly better front cover.

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Comment by David Whiteley:

Added back cover, and, with acknowledgement to nanocyar a better front cover.

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Comment by ppint.:

godfrey phillips, possibly also new american library, four square books p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition

cover art by edward mortelmans (signed mortelmans, uncredited)
cover price 2'6
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

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Comment by ppint.:

fix-up of:
the snake-headed spectre (novelette) virginia kidd, jungle stories summer/1949 as by v. k. emden
serpent's fetish (short story) james blish, jungle stories vol.4 #3, winter (1948-9)