Merril Judith Edited Isaac Asimov (4 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. First Edition. first edition book, light amount of wear on the cover, spine, and back cover of the book (discoloration), mild amount of wear on the dust jacket (creasing, scuff marks).

Hardcover. Condition: Used.

Hardcover. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. Stated first edition. NOT a book club, remaindered or an ex library book. 400 pages. Dust jacket has 1/2" tears, peeling on edges, price is not clipped.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Cover painting by Richard Powers (illustrator). 1st Edition. A "very good" 35-cent "Dell First Edition . . . First Printing -- June 1957" signed in blue ink to blank verso of the front wrap by Isaac Asimov, who here contributes the 14-page story "Each an Explorer." Also includes J.G. Ballard's "Prima Belladonna." The pages moderately age-browned, especially to the edges. There's some vertical creasing to spine, and an additional vertical crease along the spine about 1/16th of an inch into the front wrap. Editor Merril concludes with her essay "This Year's SF / Summation and Honorable Mention." (Since 80 authors receive honorable mentions, we will list a few only in the context of this question: "If E.L. Malpas and Ray Russell and Roger Thorne (writing in "Tiger") made your "best" list of 18, would anyone care to explain how Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick, Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore, Murray Leinster, Madeleine L'Engle, and Walter M. Miller, Jr. all "failed to make the cut," rating "honorable mentions," only? 320 pp. mass-market paperback. Reduced from $395. Signed by Author(s).