duell, price & sloan first printing, first edition
refer to indicia publishing history to distinguish from the second printing (1967)
reprint anthology of five short stories and four novelettes, with their own introductions plus introduction to the anthology as a whole, by robert silverberg
cover (d-j) art (unsigned, jacket design by barry martin associates credited)
cover (d-j) price $3.95
252pp? (check), including xi pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, introduction by the editor, 240pp. bound with endpapers between covered boards.
duell, price & sloan seem to've been owned at this time by the meredith publishing company, who ceased using it in 1967, and then sold it on with its back catalogue to hawthorn books in 1969.
hawthorn books closed down in 1977, the name and the rights were bought by e.p. dutton.
reprint anthology of five short stories and four novelettes, individual introductions and general introduction by robert silverberg; see primary h/cvr or manor mmpb for contents listing
cover art by f. rubio (signed)
cover price $3.50 (can $4.50)
192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. (this comment is from another edition of this book)
introduction (nf) robert silverberg (1966)
dear devil (novelette) eric frank russell (other worlds vol.1 #4, 5/1950)
the best policy (short story) randall garrett (astounding vol.59 #5, 7/1957) (asf bre vol. xiii #11, 11/1957)
alaree (ss) robert silverberg (saturn vol.1 #5, 3/1958) (new worlds #85, 7/1959)
life cycle (ntte) poul anderson (f&sf vol.13 #1, 7/1957)
the gentle vultures (ss) isaac asimov (super-science fiction vol.2 #1, 12/1957)
stranger station (ntte) damon knight (f&sf vol.11 #6, 12/1956)
lower than angels (ntte) algis budrys (infinity vol.1 #5, 10/1956)
blind lightning (ss) harlan ellison (fantastic universe vol.5 #5, 6/1956)
out of the sun (ss) arthur c. clarke (as ''.. from out of the sun'' (if vol.8 #2, 2/1958)) (this comment is from another edition of this book)
manor books imprint first mmpb printing, not first mmpb (which was a dell book)
reprint anthology of five short stories and four novelettes, with introductions as well as an introduction to the book by robert silverberg
cover art unsigned, uncredited, sfaiaa still as-yet unattributed
cover price $1.50
256pp? including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
the apparent (i)sbn borne by this book is a fake: the purported checksum digit is wrong for the number-string; the apparent library of congress number is also wrong, being that of a completely different book. (this comment is from another edition of this book)
reprint anthology containing four novelelettes and five short stories
near-identical first dell books mmpb printings sharing merkin-printed covers and hence also cat#,
cover art by jeff jones (signed)
cover price 50¢
192pp. including titles, indica etc.
refer to indica to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed
no priority established nor liable to be, both stating first dell printing---july 1968 (this comment is from another edition of this book)