The Best of Damon Knight

New York: Pocket, 1976. first thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Ed Soyka. First paperback edition. Tiny scuff on front near spine; otherwise like new. No creases or folds. Pocket mass paperback, 1st printing Sept. 1976, ISBN: 9780671806996, 337 pages, cover art by Ed Soyka. 12mo (4"" x 7") Paperback reprint of book club hard cover original. 6th place, 1977 Locus Poll Award, Best Author Collection. Contents include: Dark of the Knight, essay by Barry N. Malzberg; Introduction, essay by Damon Knight; 22 stories, including: Not With a Bang; To Serve Man (winner, Retro-Hugo Award for 1950); Cabin Boy; The Analogues; Babel II; Special Delivery; Thing of Beauty; Anachron; Extempore; Backward, O Time; The Last Word; Man in the Jar; The Enemy; Eripmav; A Likely Story; Time Enough; Mary; The Handler; The Big Pat Boom; Semper Fi; Masks (nominated, 1968 Nebula Award, 1969 Hugo Award); Down There.