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Author:H. Nearing Jr
Title:The Sinister Researches Of C. P. Ransom
Publisher:  Curtis Books
Country:USA
Date:1969
Format:Paperback
Genre:Fiction, Humour, Science Fiction
Cat#:07051
First Published:  1954
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Notes

number-string on cover 123-07051-075 is not an sbn

principal by-line of homer czar nearing, jr.

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ppint.
6th May 2020
 first mmpb, first p/b edition; first edition doubleday h/cvr 1954, also doubleday sf book club 1954

cover art unsigned, uncredited
cover price 75¢
224pp. including titles, indica etc.

cover number-string incorporating cat#, price in three digits appended, may be this edition's abn

mostly reprint collection of stories recording the attempts of professors cleanth penn ransom and archibald mactate to formulate a mathematical and poetic science of the arts (or vice-versa):
all reprints are from the magazine of fantasy & science fiction)

the dilemma (short story) (original)
the poetry machine (ss) (vol.1 #4; fall/1950)
the mathematical voodoo (ss) (vol.2 #2; 4/1951)
the malignant organ (ss) (vol.4 #3; 3/1953)
the actinic ghost (novelette) (vol.3 #2; 4/1952, as the actinic actor)
the factitious (ss) (vol.3 #5; 9/1952)
the aesthetic decapitations (ss) (original)
the hyperspherical basketball (ss) (vol.2 #6; 12/1951)
the hermeneutical doughnut (ss) (original)
the unidentified amazon (ntte) (vol.3 #8; 12/1952)
the award (ss) (original)


uncollected c. p. ransom and archibald mactate stories:
the embarrassing dimension (ss) (vol.2 #4; 8/1951)
the maladjusted classroom (ss) (vol.4 #6; 6/1953)
the cerebretive psittacoid (ss) (vol.5 #2; 8/1953) (bre mellifont vol.1 #3; 12/1953)
the gastronomical error (ntte) (vol.5 #6; 12/1953)
and
the neurotic rose (ss) (fantastic universe vol.5 #3; 4/1956)
 


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