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SIDEWISE IN TIME AND OTHER SCIENTIFIC ADVENTURES.

Leinster, Murray (pseudonym of William Fitzgerald Jenkins).

Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 1950. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects six stories. Includes "A Logic Named Joe" (1946), an early computer story, and "Sidewise in Time" (1934), a flamboyant tale that introduced alternate histories into pulp SF. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-656]. Text paper slightly tanned, spine a bit darkened, cloth a bit rubbed, lower right front corner rubbed through, a very good copy in a fine dust jacket with a crease to the front flap. (31992). Item #31992

Price: $125.00