The Year's Best S-F: 5th Annual Edition

New York: Dell, 1961. First thus. Mass Paperback. good. Richard Powers. First paperback edition. Pages are clean and unmarked; lightly tanning; old book smell; otherwise very good. Dell mass paperback, first printing Jan. 1961 (stated), Dell #F118, 320 pages, cover art by Richard Powers. 12mo (4.25" x 6.5") Contents: Introduction, by Judith Merril. Stories: The Handler, by Damon Knight; The Other Wife, by Jack Finney; No Fire Burns, by Avram Davidson; No, No, Not Rogov! by Cordwainer Smith; The Shoreline at Sunset, by Ray Bradbury; The Dreamsman, by Gordon R. Dickson; Multum in Parvo, by Jack Sharkey; Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes (winner, 1960 Hugo Award); ""What Do You Mean ... Human?"" essay by John W. Campbell, Jr.; Sierra Sam, essay by Ralph Dighton; A Death in the House, by Clifford D. Simak; Mariana, by Fritz Leiber; An Inquiry Concerning the Curvature of the Earth's Surface and Divers Investigations of a Metaphysical Nature, by Roger Price; Day at the Beach, by Carol Emshwiller; Hot Argument, poem by Randall Garrett; What the Left Hand Was Doing, by Randall Garrett writing as Darrell T. Langart; The Sound Sweep, by J. G. Ballard; Plenitude, by Will Worthington; The Man Who Lost the Sea, by Theodore Sturgeon; Make a Prison, by Lawrence Block; What Now, Little Man? by Mark Clifton; Me, poem by Hilbert Schenck; The Year's S-F, Summary and Honorable Mentions, essay by Judith Merril.