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THE LAST MUTATION.
London: Hamilton & Co. (Stafford) Ltd., [1951]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Science Fiction Monthly No. 11. A mutant of the future upon his release from guarded colony attempts to replace human civilization with mutants. "Campbell's controversial tour de force, and a much sought after collector's item." - Harbottle and Holland. Harbottle and Holland A56.
AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION HANDBOOK.
London: Hamilton, [1954]. Small octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-31 [32: ad], pictorial wrappers. First edition. Digest sized booklet. Definitions of scientific terms "that have some relation to science fiction." The handbook is a revision and expansion of a feature first published in monthly instalments of Authentic Science Fiction. The ad on page [32] promotes Authentic Science Fiction. Classic 1950s rocket cover art.
BRAIN ULTIMATE.
London: Panther Books are Printed in Great Britain and Published by Hamilton & Co. (Stafford), Ltd., [1953]. Octavo, cover by John Richards, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Panther No. 86. A scientist dreams fighting the dictatorship of the planets using disembodied brains of murdered men. "The novel ends on a Stapledonian note, with the establishment of an interstellar gestalt. By turns scientific and mystical, it is one of Campbell's better efforts." - Harbottle and Holland. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 91. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 246. Reginald 02497. Harbottle and Holland A54.
COSMOS (SERIAL NOVEL).
[Jamaica, New York: Conrad H. Ruppert, 1933-1935.]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. COSMOS, a legendary collaborative novel by eighteen authors, was published in seventeen parts as supplements to SCIENCE FICTION DIGEST (later FANTASY MAGAZINE), July 1933–January 1935. In order of appearance, contributors were Ralph Milne Farley, David G. Keller, Arthur J. Burks, Bob Olsen, Frances Flagg, John W. Campbell, Rae Winters, Otis Adelbert Kline and E. Hoffmann Price, Abner J. Gelula, Raymond A. Palmer, A. Merritt, J. Harvey Haggard, Edward E. Smith, P. Schuyler Miller, Lloyd A. Eshbach, Eando Binder, and Edmond Hamilton. The title page (designed by Hannes Bok) and table of contents were printed with the final issue. In 1946 Sam Moskowitz estimated that only thirty complete sets of COSMOS existed. Moskowitz, The Immortal Storm (1974), p. 16. Pavlat and Evans, Fanzine Index (1965), p. 19.