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Leinster, Murray
THE BEST OF MURRAY LEINSTER {1978-AM}
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DelRey
1978
1st
Paperback
H. R. van Dongen
$1.95
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ex-ChUSFA: stamp on first inside page, page 85. MORE INFO

2" non-yellowing library tape reinforcing spine. Tight and square with flat spine. Front cover has slight roughness, and 1/4" hole punched at upper right corner.

(Introduction by J. J. Pierce - Editor)
Sidewise in Time
Proxima Centauri
The Fourth-dimensional Demonstrator
First Contact
The Ethical Equations
Pipeline to Pluto
The Power
A Logic Named Joe
Symbiosis
The Strange Case of John Kingman
The Lonely Planet
Keyhole
Critical Difference

Includes 5 of 6 stories from Leinster's first collection, Sidewise in Time (1950), and has only 3 stories in common with the 1976 British collection which first used this Best of Murray Leinster title.

Original appearances from 1934 to 1956 - in Astounding (10), Collier's, Thrilling Wonder Stories (2.) Three of these stories had not been collected before in a Leinster collection - and 2 of those cannot be found in any other Leinster collection. Given the title used by the last story, I assume the source for that is the original version from Astounding (July 1956), and not the revised version titled "Solar Constant" - which was included in Colonial Survey (1957, a.k.a. The Planet Explorer.)