The Year's Best S-F: 5th Annual Edition by Judith Merril - 1961

NY: Dell, 1963. 1st printing, June 1963; #9773. Cover art by Brillhard. Includes "Oneiromachia" by Conrad Aiken; "A Passage from the Stars" by Kaatje Hurlbut; "Among the Dangs" by George P. Elliott; "Immediately Yours" by Robert Beverly Hale; "Parky" by David Rome; "The Fastest Gun Dead" by Julian F. Grow; "All the Tea in China" by R. Bretnor; "The Portabello Road" by Muriel Spark; "Ottmar Balleau X 2" by George Bamber; "The Dandelion Girl" by Robert F. Young; "Nightmare in Time" by Fredric Brown; "Looking Backward; by Jules Feiffer; "Three Prologues and an Epilogue" by John Dos Passos; "It Becomes Necessary" by Ward Moore; "My Trail as a War Criminal" by Leo Szilard; "A Prize for Edie" by J. F. Bone; "Freedom" by Mack Reynolds; "High Barbary" by Lawrence Durrell; "The Quaker Cannon" by Frederik Pohl & C. M.… Read More

New York: Delacorte, 1965. Book Club. Hardcover. Good/Good. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. ex-library with usual markings, edge wear to jacket and boards, some soiling to page ends, damage to pastedowns and jacket flaps. Stories by Mack Reynolds, Arthur C. Clarke, Kit Reed, Thomas M. Disch, Fritz Leiber, Roger Zelazny, J. G. Ballard, John Brunner, and many more.

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… Read More

New York: Delacorte Press, 1965. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 383 pp. The lightest of rubbing to the corners, and a slight worn spot along the upper edge of the front cover. The crimson color applied to the upper page edges has faded a bit.

New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1965. Very good 1965 mass market paperback. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.

New York: Dell Books, 1965. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Paperback Printing. 8vo. 384 pp. Dell Book 9775Lightly rubbed on the corners with an uncreased spine; no interior markings. This anthology contains: Mourning Song by Charles Beaumont; The Jazz Machine by Richard Matheson; 237 Talking Statues, Etc. by Fritz Leiber; Double Standard by Fredric Brown; Bernie the Faust - a novelette by William Tenn; Fortress Ship by Fred Saberhagen; Mr Waterman by Peter Redgrove; Mrs Pigafetta Swims Well by R. Bretnor; Tree Trunks by John Gallagher; They Don't Make Life Like They Used To - a novelette by Alfred Bester; The Great Nebraska Sea by Allan Danzig; The Faces Outside by Bruce McAllister; A Slight Case of Limbo by Lloyd Biggle Jr; Dog Eat Dog by Jules Feiffer; The Jewbird by Bernard Malamud; On the Fourth Planet by J. F. Bone; Poppa Needs Shorts by Leigh and Walt Richmond; Interview by Frank A. Javor; Eight O'Clock in the Morning by Ray Nelson; Where Is Everybody? by Ben Bova; Earth Dwellers -… Read More

Dell, 1964. 1st printing. Collects 28 stories, authors include: Gerald Kersh, Jack Finney, John Brunner, J.G. Ballard, Zenna Henderson and others.. Paperback. very good paperback, some slight rubbing to the spine/cover edge.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1965. Book. Illus. by G. Ziel;. Very Good. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. 8vo. 383 pp. First book club edition. Blue boards lettered in black on the spine; red upper edge; headband. Some wear at the corners of the dustjacket; small tick marks on the contents page. Dj art by G. Ziel. This anthology contains: Automatic Tiger by Kit Reed; The Carson Effect by Richard Wilson; The Shining Ones by Arthur C. Clarke; Pacifist by Mack Reynolds; The New Encyclopaedist by Stephen Becker; The Legend of Joe Lee by John D. MacDonald; Gas Mask by James D. Houston; A Sinister Metamorphosis by Russell Baker; Sonny by Rick Raphael; The Last Secret Weapon of the Third Reich by Josef Nesvadba; Descending by Thomas M. Disch; Decadence by Romain Gary; Be of Good Cheer by Fritz Leiber; It Could Be You by Frank Roberts; A Benefactor of Humanity by James T. Farrell; Synchromocracy by Hap Cawood; The Search by Bruce Simonds; The Pirokin Effect by Larry Eisenberg; The Twerlik by Jack Sharkey; A… Read More