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THRILLING WONDER STORIES.

[John D. MacDonald]. [Raymond F. Jones]. THRILLING WONDER STORIES. June 1949. (Volume 34, No. 2). Samuel Merwin, Jr., editor.

New York: Standard Magazines, Inc., 1949. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. An important issue. Notable for "The Alien Machine" by Raymond F. Jones, basis for the novel and later film "THIS ISLAND EARTH." Also includes "Sea Kings of Mars" by Leigh Brackett (published later as THE SWORD OF RHIANNON). Fiction by John D. MacDonald, "Like a Keepsake," Henry Kuttner, Murray Leinster, Fredric Brown, James Blish and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 743-762. Left front edge trimmed, slight wear to lower left front corner, a fine copy. (28197). Item #28197

Price: $125.00