The Best of Science Fiction - Conklin, Groff (ed) & Campbell, John W. Jr. (Foreword)

One of the first collections of modern science fiction; a must for the serious collector. STORIES: Solution Unsatisfactory (1941) by Anson MacDonald; The Piper's Son (1945) by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]; Deadline (1944) by Cleve Cartmill; Lobby (1944) by Clifford D. Simak; Blowups Happen (1940) by Robert A. Heinlein; Atomic Power (1934) by Don A. Stuart; Killdozer! (1944) by Theodore Sturgeon; Davey Jones' Ambassador (1935) by Raymond Z. Gallun; Giant in the Earth (1933) by Morrison Colladay; Goldfish Bowl (1942) by Robert A. Heinlein [as by Anson MacDonald]; The Ivy War (1930) by David H. Keller, M.D.; Liquid Life (1936) by Ralph Milne Farley; A Tale of the Ragged Mountains (1844) by Edgar Allan Poe; The Great Keinplatz Experiment (1885) by Arthur Conan Doyle; The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes (1895) by H. G. Wells; The Tissue-Culture King (1926) by Julian Huxley; The Ultimate Catalyst (1939) by John Taine; Tricky Tonnage (1944) by Malcolm Jameson; The Lanson Screen (1936) by Arthur Leo Zagat; The Ultimate Metal (1935) by Nat Schachner; The Machine (1935) by John W. Campbell, Jr.; Short-Circuited Probability (1941) by Norman L. Knight; The Search (1943) by A. E. van Vogt; The Upper Level Road (1935) by Warner Van Lorne; The 32nd of May (1935) by Paul Ernst; The Monster from Nowhere (1939) by Nelson S. Bond; First Contact (1945) by Murray Leinster; Universe (1941) by Robert A. Heinlein; Blind Alley (1945) by Isaac Asimov; En Route to Pluto [Bird of Time] (1936) by Wallace West; The Retreat to Mars (1927) by Cecil B. White; The Man Who Saved the Earth (1919) by Austin Hall; Spawn of the Stars (1930) by Charles Willard Diffin; The Flame Midget (1936) by Frank Belknap Long; Expedition (1943) by Anthony Boucher; The Jackdaw (1942) by Ross Rocklynne and three more stories. Hardcover. English. Crown Publishers. 1946. ISBN: 0. 785 pp. Good with worn dw in prorectvie plastic. Book No: 500102