BRIARTON, GRENDEL (PSEUDONYM OF REGINALD BRETNOR) — Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot (the First Forty-Five Feghoot Adventures with Five More Never Previously Heard of)

Tokyo & Berkeley: The Paradox Press, 1962. 1st Edition Thus; 1st Printing. Paperback. Illustrated by Bruce Ariss. Cover Art; This is a smaller than trade sized paperback book. This Tis a first edition of these stories in book form (the individual stories were all previously issued in magazine format) . The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book covers are mostly clean and bright, with some very light toning to the white portions of the spine. The text pages are clean and bright. "Under the pseudonym Grendel Briarton (an anagram of Reginald Bretnor) , he published a series of over eighty science-fiction themed shaggy-dog vignettes featuring the time-traveling hero Ferdinand Feghoot. Known as "Feghoots", the stories involved Feghoot resolving a situation encountered while traveling through time and space (à la Doctor Who) with a bad pun. In one example, he explained his inability to pay his dues for a Sherlock Holmes fan society by turning out his empty pockets and declaring "share lack". In his adventures, Feghoot worked for the Society for the Aesthetic Re-Arrangement of History and traveled via a device that had no name but was typographically represented as the ") ("." (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .