shasta publishers h/cvr first printing, first edition
cover (d-j) art by malcolm smith (unsigned, credited on d-j rear flap)
cover (d-j) price $2.50
224pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
month of publication not given: taken from bantam mmpb editions
introduction (nf) fredric brown
something green (short story) (appears to be original to this collection)
crisis, 1999 (ss) ellery queen's mystery magazine 8/1949
pi in the sky (novelette) thrilling wonder stories vol. xxvi #3, winter/1949 (2/1949 stated internally)
knock (ss) thrilling wonder stories vol. xxxiii #2, 8/1948
all good bems (ss) thrilling wonder stories vol. xxxiv #1, 4/1949
daymare (ntte) thrilling wonder stories vol. xxiv #4, fall/1943 (11/1943 taken from mike ashley)
nothing sirius (ss) captain future vol.6 #2, spring (3)/1944
star mouse (ntte) planet stories vol.1 #10, spring (2)/1942, as ''the star mouse'', with 4 b+w illustrations by don lynch; the mouse (disney) objected to fredric brown's revised original title, ''mitkey mouse''
come and go mad (ntte) weird tales vol.xli #5, 7/1949 (this comment is from another edition of this book)
this edition lists a unicorn mystery book club - presumably h/cvr - edition for 12/1952 in its publishing history, which i've never seen: does any bookcatter out there possess such an exotic beastimal?
(it's quite likely to exist - fredric brown was a major mystery writer, as well as a master of his unique, somewhat eccentric, many and various viewpoints or takes in sf & fantasy; but it may be a variant binding of the shasta edition - and there again, it may not. . .) (this comment is from another edition of this book)
bantam doubleday dell bantam books imprint mmpb, third bantam mmpb printing
tall (~standard uk p/b) format mmpb
almost entirely reprint collection of four novelettes and five short stories (one ss is original)
cover art by john holmes (unsigned, uncredited; attributed in ''the encyclopedia of fantasy & science fiction art techniques'' simon bisley (1997), q.v.)
cover price $1.95
240pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)
transworld publishers corgi books imprint small pocketbook format p/b first printing, first uk edition
cover art by charles binger (signed binger, shared from sister company bantam books first mmpb)
cover price 2'-
240pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end p. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)
bantam books small pocketbook format mmpb first printing, first p/b edition
(may have been officially simultaneous with the corgi books uk p/b edition)
cover art by charles binger (signed binger, uncredited)
cover price (25¢ not printed on cover, but given in end p. advertising)
240pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end p. advertising
printed 12/1952, stated in indicia publishing history;
reprinted before publication/during month of publication, distinguish by reference to indicia publishing history, which is noted in the 1980 third printing by the line: 2nd printing ...... january 1953 (this comment is from another edition of this book)