AVON FANTASY READER: No. 3 by Avon Fantasy Reader (A. Merritt; Frank Owen; H. G. Wells; H. P. Lovecraft; C. L. Moore; Donald A. Wollheim; Stephen Grendon - aka August Derleth; John Collier; Ray Bradbury) - 1948

NY: Avon, 1951. No. 17 (1951). Digest-sized. Edited by Donald A. Wollheim. Cover art by [Harry] Barton. Includes "The Sapphire Siren" by Nictzin Dyalhis; "Jack-in-the-Box" by Ray Bradbury; "The Noticeable Conduct of Professor Chadd" by G. K. Chesterton; "The Pink Caterpillar" by Anthony Boucher; "The Phantom Dictator" by Wallace West; "Through the Gates of the Silver Key" by H. P. Lovecraft & E. Hoffman Price; "The Bookshop" by Nelson Bond; :"One-Man God" by Frank Owen; "The Mystery of the Sargasso" by William Hope Hodgson. Tanning; small tears at spine ends with minor losses; light rubbing and edgewear; negligable creasing; contents page has been marked up by previous owner.. SingleIssueMagazine. Very Good.

New York: Avon Book Company, [1947]. Age darkening to text paper, mild wear to spine ends, a nearly fine copy. (28138). Small octavo single issue, pictorial wrappers. Digest size magazine. Authors in this book; P. Schuyler Miller, Thomas Burke, Nelson Bond, Lord Dunsany, William Hope Hodgson, Ray Bradbury, Clark Ashton Smith, M. R. James, and A. E. Van Vogt. Editor Donald Wolheim and the publisher Joseph Meyers considered these to be books rather than a magazine anthology series and they brought to a mass audience some of the great genre fiction. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 124-132.

New York: Avon Book Company, [1947]. First edition. Age darkening to text paper, light edge wear, cover creases, a very good copy. (28139). Small octavo single issue, pictorial wrappers. Digest size magazine. Authors in this book; C. L. Moore, William Fryer Harvey, Robert Bloch, Carl Jacobi, Stephen Vincent Benet, Clare Winger Harris, Robert W. Chambers, Frank Owen and C. M. Kornbluth. Editor Donald Wolheim and the publisher Joseph Meyers considered these to be books rather than a magazine anthology series and they brought to a mass audience some of the great genre fiction. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 124-132.

New York: Avon Book Company, [1947]. Age darkening to text paper, a fine copy. (28136). Small octavo single issue, pictorial wrappers. Digest size magazine. Authors in this book; David H. Keller, Philip M. Fisher, Jr., Guy Endore, Robert E. Howard, Robert W. Chambers, S. Fowler Wright, and Laurance Manning and Fletcher Pratt. Editor Donald Wolheim and the publisher Joseph Meyers considered these to be books rather than a magazine anthology series and they brought to a mass audience some of the great genre fiction. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 124-132.