contents:
the ''mad friend'' series of short stories #1 through 7:
all first published in the magazine of fantasy & science-fiction:
the misfit (vol.17 #2, 2/1959), (atlas bre vol. i #1, 12/1959)
from caribou to carry-nation (vol.17 #5, 11/1959), (venture atlas bre #13, 9/1964)
the galactic calabash (vol.18 #1, 1/1960), (atlas bre vol. i #5, 4/1960)
the sign of the goose (vol.19 #2, 8/1960), (atlas bre vol. ii #1, 12/1960)
the country boy (vol.20 #5, 5/1961)
the world must never know (vol.24 #4, 4/1963)
the third bubble (f&sf vol.26 #6, 6/1964)
ace books mmpb first printing, first edition
half a classic ''ace double'' mmpb with two front covers, contents tête-beché to each other
reprint collection of a series of seven short stories, each with a b+w illustration by jack gaughan
cover art by jack gaughan (signed with jg digraph, easily guillotined off bottom in production, uncredited)
b+w frontispiece, seven interior illustrations also by jack gaughan, mostly signed with his digraph
cover price 45¢
½ (⅓!) 256pp. including 2 x titles, indicia, illustrations etc, advertising pp. in-between the double's halves