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Conklin
17 X INFINITY
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1969
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Paperback
Jack Gaughan
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Dell April 1969 paperback (#7746, reprint of 1963 edition.) Cover by Jack Gaughan, 272 pages, 75 cent cover price. Condition is VG+: tight and square; spine is slightly dished with no lines a spot of edgewear in middle; mild uniform age tanning; light wear to back cover (see scan.) Number "53" stamped at top of first page; no other marks or writing.

17 x Infinity - a reprint anthology edited by Groff Conklin (copyright 1963.) Stories are from 1912 to 1962 - 2 from Astounding/Analog, 5 from Galaxy and 4 from Magazine of F&SF.

Contents:
(Introduction by Groff Conklin)
"The Simian Problem" by Hollis Alpert
"Strikebreaker" by Isaac Asimov
"Come Into My Cellar" by Ray Bradbury
"Ms Found in a Lbry" by Hal Draper
"Cato the Martian" by Howard Fast
"The Spaceman Cometh" by Henry Gregor Felson
"The Machine Stops" by E. M. Forster
"Frances Harkins" by Richard Goggin
"The Day They Got Boston" by Herbert Gold
"A-W-F Unlimited" by Frank Herbert
"As Easy as A. B. C." by Rudyard Kipling
"Silenzia" by Alan Nelson
"What to Do Until the Analyst Comes" by Frederik Pohl
"Short in the Chest" by Idris Seabright
"The Last of the Spode" by Evelyn Smith
"Never Underestimate" by Theodore Sturgeon
"Brooklyn Project" by William Tenn

Conklin was a freelance editor, producing almost 40 anthologies large and small from 1946 until his death in 1968. He was book reviewer for Galaxy for the first 5 years (through October 1955.) Most will agree that he had good taste, and his anthologies were considered and capable. If you want some good reading - of the sort that you may not find easily, look here. Unless you have a really, really large magazine collection, you are likely to find a combination of stories and authors that you don't have or are curious about.