NY: Crown Publishers, 1946. First edition. xxviii, 785pp. Gray cloth titled in blue to front board and spine; dust jacket. Boards with moderate wear and speckling; minor fraying to base of spine and bottom tips; toning and light soiling to textblock edges. Unclipped jacket with chipping and tears to spine ends and tips, light toning and soiling. Good to very good in like jacket.
Notable early reprint anthology collecting 40 science fiction short stories, with contributions from Clifford D. Simak, Robert A. Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon, Isaac Asimov, etc. With a preface by John W. Campbell. This copy meets first edition criteria, with "The Monster From Nowhere" incorrectly attributed to Donald Wandrei on both the table of contents and p. 452. Jacket correctly priced at "$3.00" and with correct blurbs to rear flap and panel.
