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SCIENCE-FICTION: THE EARLY YEARS.
Kent, OH, and London, England: The Kent State University Press, [1990]. Large octavo, cloth. First edition. A survey of more than 3000 short stories, novels, and plays with science-fiction elements from earliest times to 1930. An exhaustive study with long descriptions and evaluations of 2475 items, of which approximately 1675 are books and other separate publications (including 222 single-author collections and 60 anthologies) and about 800 are magazine stories. Each of the 2475 entries provide bibliography, including (for books) previous periodical publication (if any), and a full summary (up to 4000 words in some cases) of the story, with historical and critical comments. Author biographical data, where possible, accompany each item. Indexed by title, date, magazine, and motif/theme (35,000 entries), the latter of enormous value for further research in the genre. 8-26. Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror (2002) 68.
FRONTIERS IN SPACE: SELECTIONS FROM THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION STORIES...
New York: Bantam Books, [1955]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Bantam Books 1328. A best of the best, selections from THE BEST SCIENCE-FICTION STORIES 1951, 1952, 1953. Collects fourteen stories.
IMAGINATION UNLIMITED.
[New York]: Berkley Publishing Corp. [1959]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Berkley Books G233. Collects seven of the thirteen stories that appeared in the hardcover edition. Fiction by Ray Bradbury, Theodore Sturgeon, Julian May, L. Sprague De Camp, Peter Phillips, John Berryman, and Frank Robinson.