The Hugo Winners. [Penguin Science Fiction - No. 1906.]

UK,12mo p/back,1st edn.[Originally and first published 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,US,DOUBLEDAY,1962 and in UK,DENNIS DOBSON,1963.This the first UK p/back issue.] FINE-.No owner inscrptn,and no price-removal from cover.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy,monochrome pictorial illustration detail (from 'Desiderio's Ruine et cinq personnages' in the Musee des Arts Decoratifs,PARIS) to front cover with black lettering,orange spine with dulled white,and bright black lettering along with reading creases black lettered blurb and review to rear cover; with negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Front,top corner with a faint,accidental diagonal crease,which has left faint concomitant creases to corresponding page corners - from,prelims to pp16 inclusive.All edges inevitably and ubiquitously aged/toned; contents clean with minimal page-edge toning,tight,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.UK,12mo p/back,1st edn,12-342pp [paginated] includes an Editor's introduction,World Science Fiction Conventions the 13th to the 19th - omitting the 15th convention (held in London whereas the others were Stateside); each with story's annual winner and extract from same covering 9 chapters with assorted sci-fi authors.
an appendix - the Hugos,11th to 20th Conventions and winners lists,omitting the 12thConvention,a postscript; plus [unpaginated] editor's potted biography,a title page,a dedication,acknowledgements,a contents list/table, individual chapter/convention separator pages and to the rear,6pp publisher's adverts and blank free endpaper.
A really exceptional example,especially considering the book's age - it has survived particularly well.
SF,too,has its Oscars,its Nobel Prizes.At the annual convention Hugos are awarded o the best writers in the field,and some of the winners in the shorter class are brought together in this collection.
Contributions include: 1955 - Walter M. Miller,'The Darfsteller' and Eric Frank Russell,'Allamagoosa' (short story); 1956 -Murray Leinster,[Exploration Team (novelette), and Arthur C. Clarke,'The Star'(short story); 1958 - Avram Davison,'Or All the Seas with Oysters'(short story); 1959 - Clifford D. Simak,'The Big Front Yard'(novelette) and Robert Bloch,'The Hell-Bound Train'(short story);1960 - Daniel Keyes,'Flowers for Algernon'(novelette); and 1961 - Poul Anderson, 'The Longest Voyage'(novelette). P/p FREE.** * Within the UK only.*
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