STREET & SMITH'S Astounding SCIENCE FICTION - Vol. XIII,No.4 [British Edition] APRIL,1957.

UK,slim 8vo,large Digest,1st edn.[British edn of the US Astounding SCIENCE FICTION sci-fi digest.] VG.No owner inscrptn.Bright,clean,vibrant colour pictorial artwork by VAN DONGEN,illustrated front cover and priced 1/9,with blue,red and white lettering,with white lettering to black spine; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners (front top and rear top+lower corners minimally creased - with no nicks or tears present.) British adverts to insides of both covers.Some inevitable but minimal creasing to the spine/backstrip and it's gutter's edges of front cover with some slight buckling/wrinkling too.Head+foot of spine/backstrip minisculely rubbed with it's vertical edges also lightly rubbed,and with reading creases - but no cracking, i.e. pages completely glued to spine and in situ without any loose/detached pages.Top+ fore-edges ubiquitously aged/toned; contents tight,clean with page-edge toning,solid and sound.Book has obviously been carefully read and is without any intentional reading dog-ear corner creases but has some accidental dog-ear creasing to some pages' corners,e.g. top corner of title page (from cover crease) and pp91-4 inclusive top corners.UK,slim 8vo,large Digest,1st edn,2- 128pp [paginated] includes an editorial+Readers' Departments 1 other article,a novelettes by Robert Randall,3 short stories by various authors: Michael Shaara,Algis Budrys and 'TO BE CONTINUED' by Robert Silverberg,serial (Pt 3 of 3 - see my book IDs' rja673917 and rja674017 for Pts 1+2.) 'THE NAKED SUN' by Isaac Asimov, and b/w illus by Freas and van Dongen throughout the text and the magazine/digest. Other miscellaneous titles from this series also available - please search my SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY catalogue.
John Wood Campbell Jr. (June 8,1910 to July 11,1971) was an American sci-fi writer and sci-fi digest/magazine editor.As editor of 'Astounding Science Fiction' (later called 'Analog Science Fiction and Fact') from late 1937 until his death,he is generally credited with shaping the Golden Age of Science Fiction.
The Street & Smith issues began as 'Astounding Stories', and changed to Astounding Science-Fiction in March 1938.The hyphen disappeared in November 1946,and the title then remained unchanged until 1960,when the 'Analog Science Fact & Fiction' was phased in between February and October.In April 1965 this was reversed to 'Analog Science Fiction & Fact' and it has remained unchanged since then,though it has undergone several stylistic and orthographic variations.
Publishers Street & Smith was acquired by Samuel Newhouse,the owner of Condé Nast,in August 1959,and merged into Condé Nast at the end of 1961.Campbell finally achieved his goal of getting rid of the word 'Astounding' in the magazine's title,changing it to Analog Science Fact/Science Fiction.
The British edition by this publisher,ran from August 1939 until August 1963,initially in pulp format,switching to digest from November,1953.The pulp issues began at 96pp,then dropped to 80pp with the March,1940 issue,and to 64pp in December that year.All the digest issues were 128 pages long.The price was 9d until October,1953; thereafter it was 1/6d until February 1961, and 2/6d until the end of the run.The material in the British editions was selected from the U.S. issues,most stories coming from a single U.S. number,and other stories picked from earlier or later issues to fill the magazine.The covers were usually repainted from the American originals.
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