pelt (short story) carol emshwiller (f&sf vol.15 #5, 11/1958)
triggerman (ss) j. f. bone (asf vol. lxii #4, 12/1958; bre vol. xv #3, 3/1959; both 1 b+w by h. r. van dongen)
the prize of peril (ss) robert sheckley (f&sf vol.14 #5, 5/1958; cover story, art by ed emshwiller) (f&sf atlas bre vol.1 #1, 12/1959 no cover art)
hickory, dickory, kerouac (ss) richard gehman (playboy 3/1958)
the yellow pill (ss) rog phillips (asf vol. lxii #2, 10/1958, bre vol. xv #1, 1/1959)
river of riches (ss) gerald kersh (saturday evening post 8/3/1958), (argosy uk 8/1958)
satellite passage (ss) theodore l. thomas (if vol.9 #1, 12/1958, one b+w illustration by ed emshwiller)
casey agonistes (ss) richard mckenna (f&sf vol.15 #3, 9/1958 as r. m. mckenna), (venture bre vol.1 #3)
space-time for springers (ss) fritz leiber (''star science fiction stories 4'' ed. frederik pohl (1958), q.v.) the first gummitch story
or all the sea with oysters (ss) avram davidson (galaxy vol.15 #1, 5/1958)
ten-story jigsaw (ss) brian w. aldiss (nebula #26, 1/1958 correctly as ''ten storey jigsaw'')
fresh guy (ss) e. c. tubb (science fantasy #29, 6/1958)
beautiful things (ss) arthur zirul (fantastic universe vol.9 #5, 5/1958)
the comedian's children (novelette) theodore sturgeon (venture vol.2 #3, 5/1958, cover story art by m. s. (morris scott) dollens, b+w illustrations by john giunta), (venture bre #22, 6/1965 no cover art, b+w illustrations presumédly by john giunta (not yet compared))
the short-short story of mankind (ss) john steinbeck (playboy (date?/58))
from science fiction to science fact: the universe (nf) judith merril (original to this book)
man in space (nf) daniel lang (the new yorker 11/1958)
rockets to where? (nf) judith merril (original to this book)
the thunder-thieves (poem) isaac asimov (future #39, 10/1958 as ''it's all how you look at it'')
the thunder-thieves: afterword (nf) isaac asimov (original to this book)
the year's sf: a summary (nf) judith merril (original to this book)
dell books imprint first edition series first mmpb printing, first p/b edition, simultaneous with the h/cvr°
reprint anthology of fourteen short stories, one novelelette, a poem plus four nf articles, introduced by the editor and with bibliography
cover art by richard powers (? - should be so-credited on back cover)
cover price 35¢
256pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. including ''the year's s-f, summation and honorable mentions''
° - "sf:59: the year's greatest science fiction and fantasy" (gnome press h/cvr 6/1959), q.v.