"AVON FANTASY READER / AVON SCIENCE FICTION READER / AVON SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY READER" COMPLETE 23-VOLUME SET: 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953
012510New York: Avon Book Company / Avon Publishing Company / Avon Novels / Stratford Novels 1st Editions 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 ----------This set will require NO additional shipping charges for standard shipping for a US or Canadian order overseas orders will require a shipping charge DRAMATICALLY LESS than actual postage inquire. 23 pulp magazines digest size sometimes considered to be digest size vintage paperbacks and also considered to be series of anthologies . The Avon Fantasy Reader AFR with Donald Wollheim as editor ran for 18 issues from 1947 to 1952. There were a few original stories but most were reprints a large number coming from Weird Tales. Some authors included are William Hope Hodgson August Derleth H.G. Wells Murray Leinster A. Merritt Clark Ashton Smith Lord Dunsany Fletcher Pratt David H. Keller Guy Endore Robert E. Howard Robert W. Chambers C.L. Moore H.P. Lovecraft Ray Bradbury John Collier Nelson Bond A.E. Van Vogt Robert Bloch C.M. Kornbluth Jack Williamson Thorp McClusky David H. Keller Sax Rohmer Fritz Leiber Frank Gruber Ambrose Bierce Algernon Blackwood Otis Adelbert Kline Malcolm Jameson Seabury Quinn Manly Wade Wellman Clifford Simak Ray Cummings Stanley G. Weinbaum M.P. Shiel G.K. Chesterton Anthony Boucher Hugh B. Cave. Also under Wollheim the Avon Science Fiction Reader ASFR ran for 3 issues in 1951-1952 and entirely consisted of reprints including stories by Edmond Hamilton Murray Leinster A. Merritt Jack Williamson Frank Belknap Long Clark Ashton Smith Ray Cummings Robert A.W. Lowndes Lord Dunsany S. Fowler Wright H.P. Lovecraft and Hannes Bok. When Wollheim left Avon in 1952 the 2 lines were merged as Avon Science Fiction & Fantasy Reader ASF&FR for 2 1953 issues under the editorship of Sol Cohen. For some reason the publisher of the final issue April 1953 was Stratford Novels a subsidiary of Avon rather than Avon. ASF&FR included illustrations the 2 earlier runs did not and published all original stories of very good quality including works by Arthur C. Clarke John Jakes John Christopher Charles L. Harness Jack Vance and Stephen Marlowe. Condition notes follow. AFR: # 5 has covers detached but still looks great #s 4 10 & 15 have faint cover creases and are VG # 17 has faint cover creases back cover soiling and is VG some others have modest shelfwear several are unread and are near fine to fine. ASFR: # 2 has faint cover creases and is VG the other 2 have modest shelfwear and are near fine to fine. ASF&FR: both volumes are almost as new unread copies. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. Note: our prices on Biblio are the LOWEST of any of the sites on which we list our books. New York: Avon Book Company / Avon Publishing Company / Avon Novels / Stratford Novels 1st Editions 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951 paperback
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