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Soft cover. Condition: Good. Original publisher's multicolored pictorial paper wrappers. Black and red lettering on white spine. Cover art by Morey shows a scene from "Uncertainty" where a colorful, dirigible-like spaceship travels through outer space. 7" x 9 3/4." 144 pages, complete. Black-and-white illustrations by Morey, complete. Various advertisements included. Pages are intact overall but have browning and dampstaining throughout. Covers are intact overall but have dampstaining throughout, chipping along spine, a few closed tears near spine on front and back, and chipping along edges and corners. Text is still readable. A Good copy. The October 1936 (Volume 10, Number 12) issue of Amazing Stories. The following are the features in this issue, as grouped by their subcategory. Editorial: "Analysis and Synthesis" by T. O'Conor Sloane. Serial: "Uncertainty (Two Part Serial--Part One)" by John W. Campbell, Jr. Stories Complete in This Issue: "The Council of Drones" by W. K. Sonnemann, "Six Who Were Masked" by Henry J. Kostkos, "The Human Pets of Mars" by Leslie F. Stone, and "The Outpost on Ceres" by L. A. Eshbach. "Science Questionnaire" and "Discussions" in back. Amazing Stories is one of the longest-running science fiction pulp magazines that is still published to this day. It was founded in 1926 and was the first magazine to be solely focused on sci-fi. This particular issue, October 1936, was published at the time when Amazing Stories was overseen by Teck Publications and editor T. O'Conor Sloane (Sloane is generally credited as Amazing's editor from November 1929-May 1938). Notably, one of the contributors in this issue, John W. Campbell, Jr., was editor of another sci-fi pulp magazine, Astounding Science-Fiction, from 1937-1971. …

4to. 144 pp. Text illustrations by Leo Morey. Colour-illustrated softcovers, cover art by Morey, yapp fore-edges (uniform light interior toning as usual, minor edgewear, slight creasing), still VG bright copy. First edition of this installment in the famed pulp magazine first founded in 1926 by Hugo Gernsback, and rescued in 1929 from bankruptcy by Macfadden until 1938. This issue features Part II of Campbell's Contest/Conquest of the Planets serial.…

Softcover. Condition: Good No dust jacket as issued. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued. First Edition. Some abrasions to front cover. Spine worn, with 15mm missing at head and tail.; 96 pages. Illustrated covers. Page dimensions: 290 x 216mm (11 3/8" x 8 1/2"). This issue includes the stories "When the Comet Returned" by Harl Vincent; the second of two parts of "Beyond the End of Space" by John W. Campbell, Jr.; "Ancients of Easter Island" by F. Stanley Renshaw; "The Memory Stream" by Warren E. Sanders; "The Phantom of Terror" by Ed Earl Repp; "Univeral Merry-Go-Round" by Roger Bird. Illustrations by Morey. Letters section includes letters by Forrest J. Ackerman.…