A TOUCH OF STRANGE.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1958. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Story collection. "Nine SF stories, more long than short, have an added ingredient of philosophy, of the theory that ""never can a sole unit exist alone and unsupplied"", and of the necessity of communication. The title piece tells of the meeting of a couple who have been in love with merpeople; there's a girl who is kept alive with a new skin each day; there's a would be boss of the universe; and there are weird developments in worlds of the far future. Soberer than the standard brand." - Kirkus book review. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-363. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1562]. Foxing and toning to end papers, foxing to top page edges and cloth covers, bookplate of Joseph W. Ferman, one of the founders and later publisher of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, affixed to front pasted down, a very good copy in a good to very good dust jacket with foxing to flaps and rear panel, shelf wear along lower edge with a small chip at the base of the spine, toning to the spine panel. (33293). Item #33293
Price: $450.00