Big Book of Science Fiction

Crown Publshers. Hardcover, 1950. Landmark book collecting classic science fiction tales. HIGHLY COLLECTIBLE WHEN FOUND WITH INTACT DUST JACKET. Introduction by the editor, and these stories: Mr. Murphy of New York (1930) by Thomas McMorrow; The Diminishing Draft (1918) by Waldemar Kaempffert; Peacebringer (1950) by Ward Moore; A Matter of Form (1938) by Horace L. Gold; The Planetoid of Doom (1932) by Morrison Colladay; One Leg Too Many [Dr. Wentworth] (1929) by W. Alexander; The Man with the Strange Head (1927) by Miles J. Breuer, M.D.; Defense Mechanism (1949) by Katherine MacLean; Margin for Error (1947) by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]; Isolationist (1950) by Mack Reynolds; Nobody Saw the Ship (1950) by Murray Leinster; Mewhu's Jet (1946) by Theodore Sturgeon; The Outer Limit (1949) by Graham Doar; Rat Race (1948) by Dorothy de Courcy and John de Courcy; Dear Devil (1950) by Eric Frank Russell; Emergency Landing (1940) by Ralph Williams; The Ship That Turned Aside (1930) by G. Peyton Wertenbaker [as by Green Peyton]; Manna (1949) by Peter Phillips; The Long Dawn (1950) by Noel Loomis; E for Effort (1947) by T. L. Sherred; The Roger Bacon Formula (1929) by Fletcher Pratt; The Wings of Night (1942) by Lester del Rey; Desertion [City] (1944) by Clifford D. Simak; Contact, Incorporated (1949) by Robertson Osborne; Arena (1944) by Fredric Brown; Culture (1944) by Jerry Shelton; In the Year 2889 (1889) by Jules Verne; Forever and the Earth (1950) by Ray Bradbury; The Miniature (1949) by John D. MacDonald [as by Peter Reed]; Sanity (1944) by Fritz Leiber; The Only Thing We Learn (1949) by C. M. Kornbluth; Not With a Bang (1950) by Damon Knight.