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Farmer, Philip Jose
STRANGE RELATIONS
book-date: 1960
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Avon/Equinox
1975

Trade paperback
Vincent Calabrese
$1.95
near-Fine

Tight and square with flat spine - probably unread. Unlike most Equinox books I've seen, this has no age tanning - pages are remarkably white. Slight overall wear as faint rubbing - more on back cover.

This Equinox edition states "Second Printing" on credits page, which makes it from 1975.

Strange Relations, Farmer's first collection (1960) - these are the stories (novelet-length) that made his reputation in the early Fifties - all with the general theme of an Earthman in a relationship with a person or alien on another world. 2 of these have not appeared in any other Farmer collection.

Mother
Daughter
Father
Son - (original title: "Queen of the Deep)
My Sister's Brother - (original title: "Open to Me, My Sister")

Original appearances from 1953 to 1960 - in Thrilling Wonder Stories (2), Magazine of F&SF (2), Argosy. "My Sister's Brother" technically first appeared (as "The Strange Birth") in the fabulously rare last issue of Satellite (1959 - 4 copies exist, and it was never offered for public sale.) It appeared under yet another title in 1960 in Magazine of F&SF.