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PLANET STORIES.

[RAY BRADBURY]. PLANET STORIES. Summer 1950. (Volume 4, No. 7). Jerome Bixby, Ed.

New York: Love Romances, 1950. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "Death-by-Rain" by Ray Bradbury. Unabashedly the magazine was a proponent of "space-opera." In Leigh Brackett's introduction in the anthology THE BEST OF PLANET STORIES (1974) she states "the so-called space opera is the folk-tale, the hero-tale of our particular niche in history." [Reference: Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481]. Tape to spine and left front edge, a very good copy. (26175). Item #26175

Price: $45.00