STRANGE TALES [FIRST SELECTION]
by STRANGE TALES [FIRST SELECTION]. N.d. [February 1946]. (Number 1). [Walter Gillings (editor)]
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- Text paper tanned, mild edge rubs and wear, a nearly fine copy of this fragile magazine. (31564)
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About This Item
London: Utopian Publications Ltd., n.d., [1946]. Text paper tanned, mild edge rubs and wear, a nearly fine copy of this fragile magazine. (31564). Small octavo, single issue, cover by H.W. Perl, pictorial wrappers, stapled. This the variant cover by Perl. The first of two issues published. Most of the stories were reprinted from WEIRD TALES. Fiction by Jack Williamson, Robert Bloch (as "Tarleton Fiske"), Clark Ashton Smith, Ray Bradbury and others. This was allegedly Bradbury's first U.K. magazine appearance. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, Volume 1, p. 3. Parnell, Monthly Terrors, p. 202. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 625-26. Tuck (1982), p. 596.
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- Bookseller
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31564
- Title
- STRANGE TALES [FIRST SELECTION]
- Author
- STRANGE TALES [FIRST SELECTION]. N.d. [February 1946]. (Number 1). [Walter Gillings (editor)]
- Book Condition
- Used - Text paper tanned, mild edge rubs and wear, a nearly fine copy of this fragile magazine. (31564)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Utopian Publications Ltd., n.d.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- [1946]
- Keywords
- Horror & Supernatural . Magazine
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John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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