The Best of Frederik Pohl

Garden City: Nelson Doubleday, 1975. first. hardcover. Good/Very Good. John Berkey. First edition. Dust jacket has light wear and a small closed tear; now in new removable protective cover. Blue boards, white printing on spine. Remainder mark on the top edge of the textblock, and there are stray marker marks on the front free end paper, whited out. Nelson Doubleday (imprint of the Science Fiction Book Club) hardcover with dust jacket, first edition, first printing March 1975 (printing code Q6); SFBC #6486, 306 pages, cover art by John Berkey. 8vo (8.5"" x 5.75"") Book club original publication, reprinted by Ballantine / Del Rey as a mass market paperback in June 1975. 14th place, 1976 Locus Poll Award, Best Single Author Collection. Contents: Introduction, ""A Variety of Excellence,"" by Lester del Rey; stories by Pohl: The Tunnel Under the World; Punch; Three Portraits and a Prayer; Day Million; Happy Birthday, Dear Jesus; We Never Mention Aunt Nora; Father of the Stars; The Day the Martians Came; The Midas Plague; The Snowmen; How to Count on Your Fingers; Grandy Devil; Speed Trap; The Richest Man in Levittown; The Day the Icicle Works Closed; The Hated; The Martian in the Attic; The Census Takers; The Children of the Night; and Afterword: What the Author Has to Say about All This, by Frederik Pohl.