Search Results: SCIENCE FICTION from Champ & Mabel Collectibles

Hicksville, NY: Gnome Press, 1960. First Edition, Stated. Hard Cover. Good+/Good. 191p. Page and jacket edges have acid discoloration, cover corners bumped and worn, jacket has a damp stain on bottom edge with spine sunned and chips to edges. "A" binding as listed by Currey - light blue boards with spine letters in gold. Jacket design by W.I. Van der Poel. (8-1/4"x5-5/8")

New York: Avalon Books, Thomas Bouregy & Co., 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. 224p. Jacket spine sunned and chips and tears to edges. Jacket design by Ed Emshwiller. (7-7/8"x5-3/8")

New York: Fairplay Publishers, [1949?]. First Edition. Stapled Wraps. Very Good. 14p. Top page corners dog-eared, property stamp on inside front cover, cover edges lightly worn. From the introduction: "Dr. Leo Szilard is one of the handful of scientists who 'sold' President Roosevelt on the A-bomb project and then carried the project through to success. With the late Enrico Fermi, he directed the first phases of the work on chain reaction at Columbia University and went on to design the uranium pile at the University of Chicago that produced the world's first self-sustaining chain reaction, the living germ of the bomb. Off-duty reflections on the Frankenstein he had helped father, no doubt inspired the science-fiction story that follows. But he did not produce it for publication; he presented it orally on March 27, 1949 during a University of Chicago Round Table of the Air program. NBC listeners didn't hear it because it was delivered 'off the air' following the broadcast portion of the program. The… Read More

New York: DAW Books, 1984. (1st Edition). Mass market paperback. Good +. 174p. 1st printing. Cover lightly creased and corners worn. Cover art by Don Maitz.