Magazine
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1938. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Howard V. Brown, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. The first sf story by L. Ron Hubbard, "The Dangerous Dimension" appears. Stories by Clifford Simak, Ross Rocklyne, Ray Cummings, Raymond Z. Gallun, conclusion of the serial novel The Legion of Time by Jack Williamson. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING STORIES OF SUPER SCIENCE.
New York: Publishers' Fiscal Corporation, 1930. Octavo, cover painting by Wesso[lowski], pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Stories by Captain S.P. Meek, Harl Vincent and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING STORIES OF SUPER SCIENCE.
New York: Publishers' Fiscal Corporation, 1930. Octavo, cover painting by Wesso[lowski], pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. The second issue. Stories by Victor Rousseau, Harl Vincent, Hugh B. Cave and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING STORIES OF SUPER SCIENCE.
New York: Publishers' Fiscal Corporation, 1930. Octavo, cover painting by Wesso[lowski], pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Stories by Victor Rousseau, Ray Cummings, L.A. Eshbach and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING STORIES.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1935. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Howard V. Brown, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Stories by Jack Williamson, Don A. Stuart (John W. Campbell, Jr.), John Taine and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING STORIES.
New York: The Clayton Magazines, Inc., 1931. Octavo, cover painting by Wesso[lowski], pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Stories by Ray Cummings, Robert H. Wilson, Murray Leinster and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
AVON FANTASY READER.
New York: Avon Book Company, [1947]. Small octavo single issue, pictorial wrappers. Digest size magazine. Authors in this book; David H. Keller, Philip M. Fisher, Jr., Guy Endore, Robert E. Howard, Robert W. Chambers, S. Fowler Wright, and Laurance Manning and Fletcher Pratt. Editor Donald Wolheim and the publisher Joseph Meyers considered these to be books rather than a magazine anthology series and they brought to a mass audience some of the great genre fiction. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 124-132.
AVON FANTASY READER.
New York: Avon Book Company, [1947]. Small octavo single issue, pictorial wrappers. Digest size magazine. Authors in this book; P. Schuyler Miller, Thomas Burke, Nelson Bond, Lord Dunsany, William Hope Hodgson, Ray Bradbury, Clark Ashton Smith, M. R. James, and A. E. Van Vogt. Editor Donald Wolheim and the publisher Joseph Meyers considered these to be books rather than a magazine anthology series and they brought to a mass audience some of the great genre fiction. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 124-132.
AVON FANTASY READER.
New York: Avon Book Company, [1947]. Small octavo single issue, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Digest size magazine. Authors in this book; C. L. Moore, William Fryer Harvey, Robert Bloch, Carl Jacobi, Stephen Vincent Benet, Clare Winger Harris, Robert W. Chambers, Frank Owen and C. M. Kornbluth. Editor Donald Wolheim and the publisher Joseph Meyers considered these to be books rather than a magazine anthology series and they brought to a mass audience some of the great genre fiction. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 124-132.
AVON FANTASY READER.
New York: Avon Book Company, [1947]. Small octavo single issue, pictorial wrappers. Digest size magazine. Authors in this book; Murray Leinster, August Derleth, William Hope Hodgson, A. Merritt, H. G. Wells, Clark Ashton Smith, H. Russell Wakefield and Lord Dunsany. Editor Donald Wolheim and the publisher Joseph Meyers considered these to be books rather than a magazine anthology series and they brought to a mass audience some of the great genre fiction. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 124-132.
AVON SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY READER.
New York: Avon Novels Inc., 1953. Small octavo two issues, all published, cover illustrations by Leo Manso, pictorial wrappers. Digest size magazine. This was an attempt at a revival of Avon Fantasy Reader and Avon Science Fiction Reader. Publisher Joseph Meyer and new editor Sol Cohen were to produce a quarterly with all new stories. It lasted only two issues. All stories were illustrated. Authors included Alfred J. Coppel, Jr., Arthur C. Clarke, John Christopher, John Jakes, Stephen Marlowe, Jack Vance and others. Tymm and Ashley note in both issues many of the stories had a dystopian tone and the stories were not widely reprinted. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 132-134.
AVON SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY READER.
New York: Avon Novels Inc., 1953. Small octavo two issues, all published, cover illustrations by Leo Manso, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Digest size magazine. This was an attempt at a revival of Avon Fantasy Reader and Avon Science Fiction Reader. Publisher Joseph Meyer and new editor Sol Cohen were to produce a quarterly with all new stories. It lasted only two issues. All stories were illustrated. Authors included Alfred J. Coppel, Jr., Arthur C. Clarke, John Christopher, John Jakes, and others. Tymm and Ashley note many of the stories had a dystopian tone and the stories were not widely reprinted. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 132-134.
AVON SCIENCE FICTION READER.
New York: Avon Novels, Inc., 1951-1952. Octavo, three issues, pictorial wrappers. First edition. All published. Short lived digest which relied mainly on reprints from older magazines which was unable to compete with Galaxy and F & SF. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 134-35.
BEYOND FANTASY FICTION. (Ten issues, all published).
New York: Galaxy Publishing Corporation, 1953-1955. Small octavo, ten issues, pictorial wrappers. Digest magazine. This was to be a companion to Galaxy Science Fiction, in the tradition of Unknown. Author's include Damon Knight, Frank Robinson, Richard Matheson, Robert Bloch, Philip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov, John Wyndham, Algis Budrys, Zenna Henderson, Jerome Bixby, Philip Jose Farmer, Fredric Brown, and others. It could not duplicate the audience of Campbell's Unknown which failed due to WWII paper shortages. This magazine's content was not broad based fantasy fiction, while it did publish quality fiction, it stayed away from traditional fantasy and popular sword and sorcery. It also got lost in the SF digest magazine boom. The covers of the first two issues are by Richard Powers. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 137-142.
BLACK BOOK DETECTIVE.
Chicago: Better Publications, Inc., 1949. Octavo, cover by Rudolph Belarski, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. A Black Bat novel, "Thirty-One Deadly Guns" by G. Wayman Jones (pseudonym). "The Black Bat novels were fast-moving, exciting and held your interest." - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 56-59.
BLACK BOOK DETECTIVE.
Chicago: Better Publications, Inc., 1939. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Contains three stories. The last issue before the debut of "The Black Bat." Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 56-59.
"The Other Foot." In NEW-STORY.
New York: Gargoyle Press, Inc., March 1951 (number 1). Octavo, single issue, printed wrappers. The first appearance in a magazine of this classic story about racism and forgiveness set in the future on Mars after Earth is ruined by the Third World War. This story was first published in February 1951 in THE THE ILLUSTRATED MAN. However, the release of both was probably more or less simultaneous. Its first appearance in an anthology was in THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 1952, edited by Martha Foley (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1952). Foley also collected this story in FIFTY BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES: 1915-1965 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965). The first separate edition was published in 1982 by The Perfection Form Company as a paperbound booklet. Nolan, pp. 114, 197, 275, and 280.
THE FIREMAN (Novella) in GALAXY SCIENCE FICTION, February, 1951.
[New York: World Editions, Inc., 1951]. Small octavo, single issue, cover by Chesley Bonestell, pictorial wrappers. Digest sized magazine. First appearance of the novella The Fireman which would be expanded into the novel Fahrenheit 451. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 290-309.
THE FIREMAN (Novella) in GALAXY SCIENCE FICTION, February, 1951.
[New York: World Editions, Inc., 1951]. Small octavo, single issue, cover by Chesley Bonestell, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Digest sized magazine. First appearance of the novella The Fireman which would be expanded into the novel Fahrenheit 451. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 290-309.
OTHER WORLDS SCIENCE STORIES.
Evanston, IL. Clark Publishing Company, 1950. Small octavo, single issue, cover by Malcolm Smith, pictorial wrappers. Digest size magazine. Includes "Way in the Middle of the Air" by Ray Bradbury, one of the Martian Chronicles.
75TH ANNIVERSARY DINNER CELEBRATING THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF A HARDCOVER NOVEL BY EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS: TARZAN OF THE APES.
Chicago, IL, 1989. 8 1/2 x 11", pictorial wrappers. Souvenir magazine for the dinner held at The Adventurer's Club of Chicago, 21 October 1989. Includes articles about the Chicago roots of Burroughs and his publisher A.C. McClurg, as well as reprinting a draft letter from Ellen St. John to Caz Cazedessus.
THE FOUR FALSE WEAPONS.
New York: Novel Selections, Inc., [1945]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First U. S. paperback edition. Detective Novel Classic No. 40. Digest sized format. This is an abridged edition. In the 1940s after splitting with Curl, Hillman launched his own digest lines, seeing the writing on the wall for pulp magazines after the war Hillman essentially considered the digests as paperbacks.
POISON IN JEST.
New York: Novel Selections, Inc., [1944]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First U. S. paperback edition. Thriller Novel Classic No. 23. Digest sized format. This is an abridged edition. This novel features Patrick Rossiter. In the 1940s after splitting with Curl, Hillman launched his own digest lines, seeing the writing on the wall for pulp magazines after the war Hillman essentially considered the digests as paperbacks.
COSMOS SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY MAGAZINE. (Four issues, all published).
New York: Star Publications Inc., 1953-1954. Small octavo, four issues, pictorial wrappers. Digest magazine. All four issues of this short lived magazine. Authors include Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick, Poul Anderson, John Jakes, Jack Vance, Evan Hunter, Steve Frazee and others. Also an unusual appearance with an SF story in issue number two by B. Travern. All stories were sourced from the clients of the Scott Meredith agency, mainly material which was not sold to other magazines. Yet another short lived digest magazine during the 1950s explosion of such. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 533-534.
THE ARKHAM COLLECTOR. Summer 1967 - Summer 1971 (numbers 1-10).
[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House, Summer 1967 - Summer 1971 (numbers 1-10). Octavo, printed self wrappers, stapled. All published. A complete file of the house organ of Arkham House, internationally known for their publications in the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres. A wealth of historical and bibliographical data on the books and their authors as well as short fiction and poetry by H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp, August Derleth, and others.