THE COLLECTOR'S BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION ... FROM RARE, ORIGINAL, ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINES ... Selected by Alan K. Russell. [Secaucus, New Jersey]: Castle Books, [1978]. Large octavo, numerous illustrations, boards. First edition. A 514-page anthology reprinting directly from the pages of the popular magazines in which they first appeared, three novel serials (The War of the Worlds, The First Men in the Moon, and When the Sleeper Wakes) and sixteen stories (including the five "Stories of the Stone Age"). Many of the illustrations have not been reprinted elsewhere and the texts of The War of the Worlds and The First Men in the Moon differ from the book versions. Essential to Wells scholars. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2354. Reginald 36695. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#168852).
Price: $25.00
"April 1978" on copyright page.