The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, Seventh Series

New York: Doubleday, 1958. Hardcover. poor/poor. Ed Valigursky. Early printing. Former library item, expected imperfections (stamps, stickers, card pocket, etc.). Fair condition. Dust jacket has a library sticker on the spine, some ink stains at the edges on the rear, and a worn away chip at the lower right corner; is not price clipped ($3.75); now in new removable protective cover. Blue cloth covered boards with red print on spine. Binding is weak at the front, and webbing is showing in the gutter. Corners are worn, especially lower right. Pages are clean and unmarked, apart from library markings. Doubleday hard cover with dust jacket, Jan. 1958. Not a stated first edition, but an early printing. 264 pages, cover art by Edward Valigursky. 8vo (8.5"" x 5.5"") Contents: Introduction, essay by Anthony Boucher; The Wines of Earth, by Idris Seabright; In Memoriam: Fletcher Pratt, by James Blish; Adjustment, by Ward Moore; The Cage, by A. Bertram Chandler; Mr. Stilwell's Stage, by Avram Davidson; Venture to the Moon, by Arthur C. Clarke; Expedition, by Fredric Brown; Lyric for Atom-Splitters, by Doris Pitkin Buck; Rescue, by G. C. Edmondson; The Horror Story Shorter By One Letter Than the Shortest Horror Story Ever Written, by Ron Smith; Between the Thunder and the Sun, by Chad Oliver; A Loint of Paw, by Isaac Asimov; The Wild Wood, by Mildred Clingerman; Dodger Fan, by Will Stanton; Goddess in Granite, by Robert F. Young; Yes, but ..., by Anthony Brode; MS. Found in a Chinese Fortune Cookie, by C. M. Kornbluth; Journey's End, by Poul Anderson; Full Circle, by Dorothy Cowles Pinkney; The Big Trek, by Fritz Leiber.