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Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 32 pages. Features: Fascinating news bits inside front cover; Woodrow Wilson Was Best and Worst Copy - his passion for accuracy conflicted with newspapermen who ignored serious things to ask him 'what he ate for breakfast' - part 3; Housekeeping in Our Paris Flat - how two Americans fared in the French Capital and "Got to Love Passy"; ; Never Separated a Single Family - open-door immigration specialists slander the United States Government - Rabbi Stephen Wise, president of the American Jewish Congress, urges passage of the most liberal of all the liberalizing measures - the Perlman bill; Life and Death on the Screen - A.C. Pillsbury films bacteria and pollen in action - motion pictures of flower fertilization; What's the Matter With Jim? - the story of a boy who would only work when he thought it play; Mr. Ford's Page - interesting thoughts on the forces involved with prohibition; Editorials - major criticism of the World Court and claim that in Michigan a list of Americans targetted for assassination by communists has been found; Golf - Can You Pick the Champions? - Americans will attempt to capture leading British honors - article with photos of Glenna Collett, Francis Ouimet, Macdonald Smith, Walter Hagen, Watts Gunn, Long Jim Barnes, Bobby Jones and Robert Gardner; Lincoln's Murder - Amazing Man Hunt - John Surratt and Papal Zouave accused of the crime, who leaped for liberty over a hundred-foot precipice - article with photos of John Surratt, John Wilkes Booth and Mrs. Mary Surratt; What it Costs the Chinese to Worship Their Ancestors - wonderful photo-illustrated article; Is America a Nation of Coffee-Bibbers? - Its people drink upward of forty billions of cups of this seductive beverage each year, consuming more than half of World's Production; Union of Irish and Jews in recent 'propaganda' plays - Abie's Irish Rose, Kosher Kitty Kelly; Great Writers Who Have Failed as Novelists; Seeking to Know What the Earth is Made of - the work of Professor Stjepan Mohorovicic and others; When the Broker Breaks the Law; A Dance a Week - The Lancers, a graceful square dance - first two figures, with piano sheet music (to be continued); Oregon State Agricultural College at Corvallis, Oregon offers course in the guardianship of a real baby; The Jolly Old Pedagogue; Back cover features illustration of and quotation by Henry Thoreau. Small chip from fore-edge of front cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Neff (cover); Clarke, W.W.; Fitzgerald, W.O. (illustrator).…

First edition, first printing. Two volumes. Signed by the author and editor, Harlan Ellison. Original black boards with titles in gilt, green and purple to the spines, in dustwrappers. 'Dangerous Visions' is illustrated throughout with black and white chapter heading by Diane and Leo Dillon, 'Again, Dangerous Visions' is illustrated with black and white chapter headings by Ed Emshwiller. A very good set, the bindings square and firm, the extremities lightly rubbed, the spine tips with very slight bumping. There is offsetting to the endpapers of 'Dangerous Visions' and evidence of a removed bookplate to the front pastedown, the contents are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owners' stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the lightly rubbed, nicked and creased dustwrappers that are lightly faded at the spine and have a few short closed tears at the edges. Not price-clipped ($6.95 and $12.95 to the upper front flaps). Signed by Harlan Ellison in brown ink on the half title of both volumes. A landmark two volume anthology of previously unpublished speculative fiction, much of which challenged taboos within science fiction publishing. The anthologies and the stories within them received many wards: Ellison received a special award from The World SF convention for 'Dangerous Visions' and a special Hugo award for 'Again, Dangerous Visions'; Fritz Leiber's 'Gonna Roll the Bones' received a Hugo and Nebula Award for Best Novelette; Philip Jose Farmer's 'Riders of the Purple Wage' received a Hugo Award for Best Novella; Samuel L. Delaney received a Nebula Award for Best Short story; Ursula le Guin's 'The World for World is Forest' received a Hugo Award for best Novella; 'When it Changed' by Joanna Russ received a Nebula Award for best short story, and 'Again, Dangerous Visions' as a whole won the 1973 Locus Award for Best Original Anthology. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. Signed by Author(s). …