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Editor: Anthony Boucher Title: The Best From Fantasy And Science Fiction: Fifth Series Publisher:   Ace Books Country: USA Date: 1968 Format: Paperback Genre: Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy Cat#: G-714 First Published:   1956 Rating: Rate Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:    Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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ace books, inc.
1120 avenue of the americas
new york, n. y. 10036 (usa)

copyright ©, 1954, 1955, 1956, by fantasy house, inc.
an ace book, by arrangement with doubleday & co., inc.

near-identical with ace books 1961: old ace logo, cat# F-105, 40¢.

"this collection is dedicated to milford, pennsylvania and tucson, arizona for their production of a wholly unfair percentage of the best in fantasy and science fiction"

256pp. pocketbook format, including 6 unnumbered pp. introductory excerpt, titles, indica, table of contents, dedication; 2 unnumbered end pp. advertising: "classics of great science-fiction from ace books" & "ace books science-fantasy anthologies".
cover art unattributed
cover price 50¢

contents
"imagine" (poem) fredric brown 5/55
"you're another" (novelette) damon knight 6/55
"this earth of majesty" (short story) arthur c. clarke 7/55 (aka "refugee", aka "royal prerogative")
"birds can't count" (ss) mildred clingerman 2/55
"the golem" (ss) avram davidson 3/55
"pottage" (ntte) zenna henderson 9/55 (the people)
"the vanishing american" (ss) charles beaumont 8/55
"created he them" (ss) alice eleanor jones 6/55
four vignettes:
"too far" (ss) fredric brown 9/55
"a matter of energy" (ss) james blish 5/55
"nellthu" (ss) anthony boucher 8/55
"dreamworld" (ss) isaac asimov 11/55
"one ordinary day, with peanuts" (ss) shirley jackson 1/55
"the short ones" (ntte) raymond e. banks 3/55
"botany bay" (ss) p. m. hubbard (2/55)
"a canticle for leibowitz" (ntte) walter m. miller 4/55 (eponymous)
"lament by a maker" (poem) l. sprague de camp 1/55
° "the doctrine of original design" (poem) winona mc clinton 3/55
"pattern for survival" (ss) richard matheson 5/55
"the singing bell" (ss) isaac asimov 1/55 (© 1954) (wendell urth)
"the last word" (ss) chad oliver & charles beaumont 4/55 (claude adams)
° "survival" (poem) carlyn coffin 6/55

° - not listed in table of contents

introductory excerpt from introduction in hardc

Comments and Reviews

ppint. 2nd Oct 2018		publication year of this second ace books mmpb printing is as given by donald h. tuck, and it also fits the chronology of ace books mmpb cat#s and cover prices. reference copy provided courtesy of tony at the old pier bookshop, morecambe seafront. (yr hmbl srppnt. does have their own copy of one printing or t'other, but can't currently reach it.)

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