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Editor:Damon Knight
Title:Cities Of Wonder
Publisher:  MacFadden
Country:USA
Date:Apr 1967
Format:Paperback
Class Number:808.3
Genre:Fiction, Science Fiction
Cat#:75-183
Total Editions:5
First Published:  1966
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Mass market paperback.
Introduction by Damon Knight.
11 stories.
251 numbered pages.
256 total pages.

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Damon Knight - Cities Of Wonder - Doubleday - Hardcover - USA (1966)

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ppint.
16th Sep 2021
 contents:

single combat (short story ) robert abernathy (f&sf vol.8 #1, 1/1955)
dumb waiter (novelette) walter miller, jr. (astounding vol. il #2, 4/1952, cover story, art & five b+w illustrations by hubert rogers)
jesting pilot (ss) henry kuttner, c. l. moore (astounding vol. xxxix #3, 5/1947)
''it's great to be back!'' (ss) robert a. heinlein (saturday evening post 26/7/1947)
billenium (ss) j. g. ballard (new worlds #112, 11/1961, aka & most editions give as ''billennium'')
okie (ntte) james blish (astounding vol.45 #2, 4/1950; five b+w illustrations by hubert rogers; incorporated in ''earthman, come home'' (1955), q.v.)
the luckiest man in denv (ss) c. m. kornbluth (galaxy vol.4 #2, 6/1952 as by simon eisner)
the machine stops (ntte) e. m. forster (oxford and cambridge review, michaelmas term/1909)
the underprivileged (ss) brian w. aldiss (new worlds #130, 5/1963)
by the waters of babylon (ss) stephen vincent benét (saturday evening post 31/7/1937 as ''the place of the gods'')
forgetfulness (ntte) john w. campbell jr. (astounding vol. xix #4, 6/1937 as by don a. stuart)
 

 
ppint.
16th Jan 2021
 macfadden mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first p/b edition

thematic reprint anthology of four novelettes and seven short stories, nf introduction by damon knight

cover art by jack faragasso (signed faragasso, signature guillotined off some copies in production)
cover price 75¢
256pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
refer to printing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed;
no priority established nor liable to be, both state a macfadden book.... 1967

month of publication not given: taken from printing history of 10/1971 macfadden second printing
 


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