Friday, May 14, 2010




Just received from the UK, no less...the second Pyramid edition, with a different cover stressing the contributors more, from the Dorothy McIlwraith editorship of WEIRD TALES (for $4):

The Unexpected ed. Leo Margulies (perhaps actually without DR Bensen nor Sam Moskowtz ghosting) (Pyramid G590, Feb '61, 35¢, 160pp, pb)
6 • Introduction • Leo Margulies • in
7 • The Professor's Teddy-Bear • Theodore Sturgeon • ss Weird Tales Mar '48
17 • Legal Rites [Pohl as James MacCreigh] • Isaac Asimov & Frederik Pohl • nv Weird Tales Sep '50
42 • The Strange Island of Dr. Nork • Robert Bloch • ss Weird Tales Mar '49 60 • Mrs. Hawk • Margaret St. Clair • ss Weird Tales Jul '50
67 • The Handler • Ray Bradbury • ss Weird Tales Jan '47
76 • The Automatic Pistol • Fritz Leiber • ss Weird Tales May '40
91 • The Unwanted • Mary Elizabeth Counselman • ss Weird Tales Jan '51
102 • The Valley Was Still • Manly Wade Wellman • ss Weird Tales Aug '39
115 • The Scrawny One • Anthony Boucher • vi Weird Tales May '49
119 • Come and Go Mad • Fredric Brown • nv Weird Tales Jul '49
154 • The Big Shot • Eric Frank Russell • ss Weird Tales Jan '49

--and bought locally at lunch yesterday for $2 from the best secondhand store I'm aware of around here, half out of FANTASTIC and almost all out of Howard Browne's years as editor of the Ziff-Davis fiction magazines, with one ringer each from Ray Palmer and Cele Goldsmith issues (and what I have is the Belmont-Tower original edition, while this is the Award reprint, shoddily packaged as was Award's wont and with a misleading promise that this is the first time this collection has been offered):

Time Untamed [edited by Ivan Howard] ed. Anon. (Belmont 50245, 1967, 75¢, 175pp, pb)
5 • Sally • Isaac Asimov • ss Fantastic May/Jun '53
23 • You'll Never Go Home Again • Clifford D. Simak • ss Fantastic Adventures Jul '51
41 • The Eye of Tandyla [Poseidonis] • L. Sprague de Camp • nv Fantastic Adventures May '51
65 • Tomorrow and Tomorrow • Ray Bradbury • ss Fantastic Adventures May '47
83 • The Hungry Eye • Robert Bloch • nv Fantastic May '59
102 • The Dark Room • Theodore Sturgeon • nv Fantastic Jul/Aug '53
139 • The Eternal Eve • John Wyndham • nv Amazing Sep '50
164 • I'm Looking for "Jeff" • Fritz Leiber • ss Fantastic Fll '52

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