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Rinehart and Company, 1954. Hardcover. Good/Fair. Book Club Ed. Dust jacket very worn with some large tears along edges. Name label inside. Age toning and edgewear. Otherwise clean and intact throughout. Please see image. 214 pages.

Cassell & Company, Ltd, London, 1956. First English Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Black coloured boards with silver coloured titles to the backstrip. Illustrated dustwrapper with blue and white coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. " In view of the rapid growth in popularity of fantasy in general and science-fiction ( which is a form of fantasy ) in particular in the last two decades, it is fitting that an annual assessment of this form of writing be made. Hence Portals of Tomorrow -- which comes into a populous field as an anthology covering the entire genre of the fantastic: not only supernatural and science-fiction tales, but also every kind of whimsy and imaginative concept of life in the future all on other planets." -- from the introduction page IX. Rubbing to the back strip edges and book corners. Browning and foxing of the text block edges with lighter browning of the pages. Some scattered foxing to the end pages and original bookseller's… Read More

New York: Rinehart, [1954], 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Hardcover. Derleth, August [Editor] Bradbury, Ray. PORTALS OF TOMORROW. The Best Tales of Science Fiction and Other Fantasy. New York: Rinehart, [1954]. First Edition, 8vo., 371pp. A fine copy in a near fine price clipped dustwrapper showing light use. A colleciton of 16 neat short stories, including 'The Playground' by Ray Bradbury, & works by Arthur C. Clarke, Frederic Brown, Clifford Simak, James Blish, Mildred Clingerman, Murray Leinster, Mack Reynolds & others. Introduction by Derleth.