UNDER THE MOONS OF MARS: A HISTORY AND ANTHOLOGY OF "THE SCIENTIFIC ROMANCE" IN THE MUNSEY MAGAZINES, 1912-1920. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1970]. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-xiii [xiv] 1-433 [434: blank], cloth. First edition. The valuable 143-page historical introduction is a continuation of Moskowitz's examination of SF in popular magazines begun in SCIENCE FICTION BY GASLIGHT (1968), though the survey here is restricted to American periodicals with emphasis on the Munsey group. Fiction selections include the original magazine texts of stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs, George Allan England, Ray Cummings, Murray Leinster, A. Merritt and others. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 1-71. A fine copy in very good dust jacket some edge wear, mostly along upper edges of spine and front panels, age-darkening, largely to inner surface of spine panel, and clipped price. (#87138).
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