Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good+ to Near Fine. 1st printing, Sept. 1962; #1074. Cover art by Morton Roberts. This paperback edition is abridged. Includes "This Star Shall Be Free" by Murray Leinster; "Impulse" by Eric Frank Russsell; "Top Secret" David Grinnell [Donald A. Wollheim]; "An Eel by the Tail" by Allan Lang; "Storm Warning" by Donald Wollheim; "Tiny and the Monster" by Theodore Sturgeon; "The Discord Makers" by Mack Reynolds; "Pen Pal" by Milton Lesser; "Invasion from Mars" by Howard Koch; "Minister Without Portfolio" by Mildred Klingerman; "Crisis" by Edward Grendon; "Angel's Egg" by Edgar Pangborn; "Will You Walk a Little Faster?" by William Tenn; "Pictures Don't Lie" by Katherine MacLean; "The Greatest Tertian" by Anthony Boucher. Mild tanning; minor edge and corner nicks and wear. Book.
Published by Avon Novels Inc, New York, 1951
Seller: biblioboy, North Providence, RI, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Digest sized magazine. Pictorial wrappers (about 5.25" x 7.5], saddle-stapled, Collects 9 stories. See photo contents page. Good copy with upper corner creasing, some foxing/spotting to the rear cover, text tanned, with "N. H. JUN - 29" stamped upside-down to the top of the rear cover. 298E.
Published by Book News Inc., New York, 1983
Seller: Henry Hollander, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Softbound. Condition: Good. Small quarto, stapled paper covers, 96 pp., b/w photos, ads Articles are "The Director of the JWB Jewish Book Council reports on recent developments in Jewish publishing," Ruth Frank, "The Lively Life of a 'Dead' Language or 'Everyone Knows That Yiddish Died Long Ago,' Dr. Joshau Fishman bids halt to 'premature reports' of the death of the Yiddish lagugae. Yiddish waits to be reclaimed, rmembered and rejuvenated," Josha A. Fishman, "JNB Book Reviews, New and Forthcoming Judaica.
Published by Book News Inc., New York, 1980
Seller: Henry Hollander, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Softbound. Condition: Very Good. Small quarto, stapled paper covers, 60 pp., b/w photos, ads Articles are "F.Y.I: A brief survey of developments in Jewish publishing by the Director of the JWB Jewish Book Council," Ruth Frank, "JNB Book Notes: Picture Stories From the Bible: Or, how buying a Chanukah gift can become a full-time profession," Mark Levine, "JNB Book Reviews: Opinion on a sampling of recently published books - from poetry, cookbooks, and growing up Jewish in Edinburgh, to tax law for clergymen," Isaac Mozeson, "These Are My Generations: Climbing Up My Family Tree: An Amateur genealogist finds his family and their shtetl of Dobromil in the stacks of the New York Public Library," Arthur Kurzweil, "The Moscow Book Fair: Despite arbitrary censorship, the Moscow Book Fair provided Soviet Jews with a chance to satisfy their intense interest in things Jewish," Ruth Septee.
Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. William S. Shields (illustrator). A fine hardcover Book Club first edition in a fine dust jacket. An impressive collection of science fiction stories, a lovely copy.
Published by Avon Books, New York, 1951
Seller: WF Sandercombe, Burlington, ON, Canada
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Harry Barton; (illustrator). 1st Edition. Light edge and corner wear with some minor discolouration on the lower right of the front cover. Cover art by Harry Barton. This issue contains: Jack-in-the-Box by Ray Bradbury; Through the Gates of the Silver Key by H. P. Lovecraft and E. Hoffmann Price; The Mystery of the Sargasso by William Hope Hodgson; The Pink Caterpillar by Anthony Boucher; The Sapphire Siren by Nictzin Dyalhis; The Noticeable Conduct of Professor Chadd by G. K. Chesterton; The Phantom Dictator by Wallace West; The Bookshop by Nelson Bond; and One-Man God by Frank Owen. Size: 12mo. Book.
Published by Book News Inc., New York, 1982
Seller: Henry Hollander, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Softbound. Condition: Good. Small quarto, soiled stapled paper covers with wear to the spine, 112 pp., b/w photos, ads Articles are "The Director of the JWB Jewish Book Council reports on recent developments in Jewish publishing," Ruth Frank, "The Young Inheritors: A Portrait of Israel's Children. Gemma Levine's warm photographs evoke the diversity charm, and mischieviousness of Israel's children, "What Judaism of the Mishnah: What Evidence? A scholarly stody of the work of Professor Jacob Neusner of Brown University," Yaakov Elman, "Notes of an Insider/Outsider: Sociologist-author Porter describes his progress from Jewish Radical to Radical Jew," Jack Nusan Porter, JNB Viewpoint "Bausteine," by Edith Baer, The Noted author of books for Young Adults remembers the books presented to her when she was young, and their life-long influence upon her.
Published by Book News Inc., New York, 1981
Seller: Henry Hollander, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Softbound. Condition: Good. Small quarto, soiled stapled paper covers, 80 pp., b/w photos, ads Articles are "The Director of the JWB Jewish Book Council reports on recent developments in Jewish publishing," Ruth Frank, "JNB Profile: Azriel Eisenberg. Why another book on the Holocaust? Dr. Eisenberg offers some firm opinions," Esther Cohen, "JBN Book Reviews: A Sampling of opinion on a variety of recently published books," "The Jewish Poet Lives: A gathering of Jewish poets offers proof that Jewish poetry is very much alive and contributing to Jewish cultural survival," Jeremy Simcha Garber, "Why Diamonds are Jewish: Or how the Talmud and Maimonides came to have a major impact on Manhattan's West Forty-seventh Street," Murray Schumach, "J. Levine: A Modern Tradition. A fourth-generation member of the firm tells how his family's store has tried to adjust to changing times on the Lower East Side," Dan Levine, "Viewpoint: The Written Word as Healer. A personal view on publishing and the alienation between Israel and the Diaspora," Eduardo Rauch.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+ to Near Fine. First Edition. [1st printing](1952) Dj art is uncredited. Includes "This Star Shall Be Free" by Murray Leinster; "Castaway" by Robert Moore Williams; "Impulse" by Eric Frank Russsell; "Top Secret" David Grinnell [Donald A. Wollheim]; "An Eel by the Tail" by Allen K. Lang; "A Date to Remember" by William F. Temple; "Storm Warning" by Donald A. Wollheim; "Child of the Void" by Margaret St. Clair; "Tiny and the Monster" by Theodore Sturgeon; "The Discord Makers" by Mack Reynolds; "Pen Pal" by Milton Lesser; "Not Only Dead Men" by A. E. van Vogt; "Enemies in Space" by Karl Grunert; "Invasion from Mars" by Howard Koch; "Minister Without Portfolio" by Mildred Klingerman; "The Waveries" by Fredric Brown; "Crisis" by Edward Grendon; "Angel's Egg" by Edgar Pangborn; "Will You Walk a Little Faster?" by William Tenn; "The Man in the Moon" by Henry Norton; "Pictures Don't Lie" by Katherine MacLean; "The Greatest Tertian" by Anthony Boucher. Rear inside flap[ both corners creased; tanning; minor ink spot page vii with offset to facing page. Book.
Published by Avon Periodicals (1950), New York, 1950
Seller: Ed Buryn Books, Nevada City, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
1st edition. This pulp magazine had only two issues, of which this is the first. Contains a section of color-comic stories in addition to two novelettes (The Planet-Smashers by Cummings, and Terror of the Mist-Maidens by Chandler), five short stories (including Letter From the Stars by Van Vogt, and Omega and the Wolf-Girl by del Rey). Interior comics art by J. Kubert & John Giunta. Nice bright collectible copy. 7 x 10, 114 pp, b/w illus & ads. Near Fine, bright wraps, backstrrip intact, very little wear. Magazine in color-illus wraps (art uncredited), side-stapled.