AVON FANTASY READER.
New York: Avon Book Company, [1947]. Small octavo single issue, pictorial wrappers. Digest size magazine. Authors in this book; A. Merritt, Frank Owen, H. G. Wells, H. P. Lovecraft, C. L. Moore, Donald A. Wolllheim, Stephen Grendon, John Collier and Ray Bradbury. Editor Donald Wolheim and the publisher Joseph Meyers considered these to be books rather than a magazine anthology series and they brought to a mass audience some of the great genre fiction. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 124-132. Age darkening to text paper, touch of wear to lower left front corner, lamination wrinkle to front cover, a fine copy. (28137). Item #28137
Price: $45.00