BEYOND HUMAN KEN : 21 Startling Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy
by Merril, Judith (Editor); (Fletcher Pratt, Introduction)
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- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
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About This Item
New York, NY: Random House, 1952. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated bi-color boards/NF w/trace edge wear. DJ/None. Gift inscription to front cover verso. Collection of 21 science fiction stories beyond 1950s conception, and perhaps, still. Selections, published first in magazines, have not been anthologized in book form. Recognize any favorites? They are: 1, The Fittest (Katherine MacLean); 2, The House Dutiful (William Tenn); 3, Pride (Malcolm Jameson); 4, Unwelcome Tenant (Roger Dee); 5, The Glass Eye (Eric Frank Russell); 6, Underground Movement (Kris Neville); 7, A Gnome There Was (Lewis Padgett); 8, Solar Plexus (James Blish); 11, Our Fair City (Robert A. Heinlein); 10, The Fly (Arthur Porges); 11, Afterthought (H.B. Fyfe); 12, The Compleat Werewolf (Anthony Boucher); 13, The Wabbler (Murray Leinster); 14, The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles (Idris Seabright); 15, What Have I Done? (Mark Clifton); 16, The Angel was a Yankee (Stephen Vincent Benet); 17, Helen O'Loy (Lester del Ray); 18, Socrates (John Christopher); 19, Good-bye, Ilha! (Laurence Manning); 20, The Foxholes of Mars (Fritz Leiber); and 21, The Perfect Host (Theodore Sturgeon).
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013563
- Title
- BEYOND HUMAN KEN : 21 Startling Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Author
- Merril, Judith (Editor); (Fletcher Pratt, Introduction)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Thus
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- Anthology/Science Fiction/Short Stories/Fantasy
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction;
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