Jamaica, New York: Experimenter Publishing Company, Inc., August 1923 (volume 11, number 4). Large octavo, single issue, cover by Howard V. Brown, pictorial wrappers. Bedsheet-sized pulp. The famous "Scientific Fiction" number. Includes "The Man From the Atom" by G. Peyton Wertenbaker, a Dr. Hackensaw story by Clement Fezandie, the second part of "Around the Universe" by Ray Cummings, "Advanced Chemistry" by Jack G. Huekels, "The Electric Duel" by Hugo Gernsback, "Vanishing Movies" by Teddy J. Holman, and other nonfiction material. "Although essentially a nonfiction magazine, SCIENCE AND INVENTION has become justifiably famous in the history of science fiction because of its August 1923 issue, which was a special "Scientific Fiction" number, qualifying as possibly the first English-language science fiction issue of a magazine ... There can be no denying the importance of S&I (and its predecessors) in the history of science fiction ... The success of the stories in S&I led directly to Gernsback issuing AMAZING STORIES and thus to the birth of the SF magazine" (Tymn and Ashley, eds., Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 500-504). Covers worn at edges, about a third of the spine panel missing, with some loss to volume number and title lettering, 20 mm closed tear at top edge of rear panel with faint associated wrinkles, 35x20 v-chip at the upper edge of the rear panel near the spine fold, rear cover a bit tanned, a very good copy with bright front cover. Uncommon. (#176605).
Price: $2,250.00
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