Samuel Mines [editor] — The Best from Startling Stories

New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1953. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of stories from US pulp magazine Startling Stories. First edition, first impression. A scintillating collection of science-fiction tales representing the cream of the fiction that has appeared in Startling Stories, an American pulp magazine which acted as a companion to Thrilling Wonder Stories. As well as printing shorter fiction, the policy of Startling was to include a complete novel (although these were often very short) per issue. With titles such as: The Wages of Synergy by Theodore Sturgeon, The Naming of Names by Ray Bradbury, and Thirty Seconds - Thirty Days by Arthur C. Clarke. Compiled by Samuel Mines, an American editor and author who worked for Standard Magazines, the chain that published Startling Stories and Thrilling Wonder Stories. With an introduction from Robert Anson Heinlein, an American science fiction author, aeronautical engineer, and naval officer. Sometimes called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was among the first to emphasize scientific accuracy in his fiction, and was thus a pioneer of the subgenre of hard science fiction. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light wear to the extremities. Original price-clipped dust wrapper is smart with light wear and the odd small closed tear to the extremities. Light sunning to the spine and panel edges with the odd small mark. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small mark to the endpapers. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good.