6th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F

New York: Dell, 1962. First thus. Mass Paperback. fair. John Van Zwienen. First paperback edition. Creases to spine and cover. Prior owner's name stamped inside front cover; some writing in pencil inside front cover. Pages are clean and unmarked; lightly tanning; old book smell. Small dark stain on edge of a couple of pages. Dell mass paperback, first printing June 1962 (stated), Dell #9772, 384 pages, cover art by John Van Zwienen. 12mo (4.25" x 6.5") Contents: Introduction, essay by Judith Merril; Double, Double, Toil and Trouble, by Holley Cantine; The Never-Ending Penny, by Bernard Wolfe; The Fellow Who Married the Maxill Girl, by Ward Moore; Something Invented Me, by R. C. Phelan; A Sigh for Cybernetics, poem by Felicia Lamport; Obvious! (cartoon), by Michael Ffolkes; I Remember Babylon, by Arthur C. Clarke; The Lagging Profession, essay by Leonard Lockhard; The Distortion (cartoon), by Shel Silverstein; Report on the Nature of the Lunar Surface, by John Brunner; J.G. (Excerpt from J.G. the Upright Ape), by Roger Price; Chief, by Henry Slesar; Psalm, poem by Lester del Rey; The Large Ant, by Howard Fast; A Rose By Other Name, by Christopher Anvil; Enchantment, by Elizabeth Emmett; Thiotimoline and the Space Age, by Isaac Asimov; Beach Scene, by Marshall King; Creature of the Snows, by William Sambrot; Abominable, by Fredric Brown; The Man on Top, by R. Bretnor; David's Daddy, by Rosel George Brown; The Thinkers (cartoon), by Walt Kelly; Something Bright, by Zenna Henderson; In the House, Another, by Joseph Whitehill; A Serious Search for Weird Worlds, by Ray Bradbury; Ed Lear Wasn't So Crazy!, by Hilbert Schenck, Jr.; Cartoon: Instructor, by Thelwell; The Brotherhood of Keepers, by Dean McLaughlin; Hemingway in Space, by Kingsley Amis; Mine Own Ways, by Richard McKenna; Old Hundredth, by Brian W. Aldiss; Radiation Blues, by Theodore R. Cogswell; Blowup Blues, by Theodore R. Cogswell; Ballad of the Shoshonu, by Gordon R. Dickson; How to Think a Science Fiction Story (excerpt), by G. Harry Stine; The Year in S-F, essay by Judith Merril; S-F Books - 1960, essay by Anthony Boucher; Honorable Mentions, essay by Judith Merril