paperback library mmpb first printing, first edition
dedication: to otto binder, because he is a warm, sincere human being in an age of unfeeling automatons, to alvin m. riley jr. because he has the supreme patience to remain one of my few close fiends --- and especially to my parents, for reasons they understand in their hearts
cover art by jack gaughan (signed with his jg digraph, uncredited)
cover price 50¢
160pp. including titles, indica, table-of-contents, introduction etc, end pp. advertising
damn. half - no, three-quarters done, and tablettything lost it unsaved (may've been my fault. wasted ¼hr trying to find where to configure how often chrome saves file in use - or even, so that it does so...)
*sulk*
satisfaction guaranteed (novelette) isaac asimov (amazing vol. xxv #ix, 4/1951; amazing bre #13, 7/1952) (susan calvin, robots)
piggy bank (ntte) henry kuttner (or possibly henry kuttner and c. l. moore) (astounding vol. xxx #4, 12/1942, as by ''lewis padgett'')
with folded hands... (ntte) jack williamson (astounding vol. xxxix #5, 7/1947 (a humanoids story)
brother to the machine (short story) richard matheson (if vol.1 #5, 1/1952)
the defenders (ntte) philip k. dick (galaxy vol. 5 #4, 1/1953, galaxy bre vol.3 #5)
the cover story, of both, art by ed emshwiller, three b+w illustrations also by ed emshwiller in both
almost human (ss) robert bloch (fantastic adventures vol.5 #6, 6/1943, as by ''tarleton fiske''); reprinted in fantastic vol.15 #6, 7/1966)
into thy hands (ss) lester del rey (astounding vol. xxxv #6, 8/1945)
boomerang (short story) eric frank russell (fantastic universe vol.1 #2), as ''a great deal of power''), (in ''science fiction thinking machines'' ed. groff conklin (5/1954) q.v.) (this comment is from another edition of this book)
paperback library mmpb simultaneous second printings sharing merkin-printed covers
cover art by jack gaughan (signed gaughan, uncredited)
cover price 60¢
160pp. including titles, indica, table-of-contents, introduction (nf) etc, end pp. advertising
refer to indica publishing history to see if carcass (''body text'') of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed; no priority established nor liable to be, both state second printing, march, 1969 (this comment is from another edition of this book)