THE MARTIAN WAY AND OTHER STORIES.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Company, Inc., 1955. Octavo, boards. First edition. Asimov's first collection of short fiction. Collects "The Martian Way," "Youth," a first contact story, "The Deep," an amusing Earth invaded by aliens satire, and "Sucker Bait," all written between 1952 and 1954. "Good traditional SF of the period." - Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-21. Most of the best of his short stories ... were initially assembled in a series of impressive volumes, including THE MARTIAN WAY AND OTHER STORIES (1955), EARTH IS ROOM ENOUGH: SCIENCE FICTION TALES OF OUR OWN PLANET (1957) and NINE TOMORROWS: TALES OF THE NEAR FUTURE (1959). [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-21]. Base of spine mildly bruised, a fine copy in a good to very good dust jacket with light wear to the corner tips and upper spine panel, closed tear and crease to lower left front with wear and mild loss to base of spine panel, small chip to base of rear panel. (33481). Item #33481
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