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PLANET STORIES.

[RAY BRADBURY]. PLANET STORIES. Spring 1949. (Volume 4, No. 2). Paul L. Payne, Ed.

New York: Love Romances, 1949. Octavo, single issue, cover by Anderson, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "Dwellers in Silence" by Ray Bradbury. Fiction by Damon Knight, Alfred Coppel and others. Unabashedly the magazine was a proponent of "space-opera." In Leigh Brackett's introduction in the anthology THE BEST OF PLANET STORIES (1974) she states "the so-called space opera is the folk-tale, the hero-tale of our particular niche in history." [Reference: Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481]. Mild toning to text paper, all edges trimmed, a bright nearly fine copy. (36798). Item #36798

Price: $100.00