Item #30344 STAR SCIENCE FICTION STORIES NO. 2. Frederik Pohl.

STAR SCIENCE FICTION STORIES NO. 2.

New York: Ballantine Books, [1953]. Small octavo, cover art by Richard Powers, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ballantine Book 55. The pioneer SF original anthology series. Collects fourteen stories by Alfred Bester, Hal Clement, Lester del Rey, C. M. Kornbluth, and others. Includes Jerome Bixby's "It's a Good Life," a story Bleiler (1983) terms "a modern classic." Also, "The Purple Fields," Robert Crane's first published story, a tale of a post-World War III future in which the United States is an authoritarian dystopia controlled by the "Program." Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1398. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1319. Edge rubbing, tiny crease to upper right front cover, a very good to nearly fine copy. (30344). Item #30344

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