THE WORLD OF SCIENCE FICTION - The History of a Subculture: 1926 - 1976 by del Rey, Lester - 1979

New York: Del Rey - Ballantine Books, 1979. (xiii) 416 pp. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with flat uncreased spine; slight ripple in the text block; no interior markings. This collection contains: What Science Fiction Is; The Beginnings of Science Fiction; The Rise of the Pulps; The Third Source; The Magazines of Hugo Gernsback; The Dawn of Astounding; The Crucial Years; The Active Fan; The Shaping of the Future; Campbell's Astounding; The War and the Bomb; A Proliferation of Magazines; Science Fiction in Books; The Growth of Fandom; Reshaping the Future; The Quest for Magic; The Big Boom; And the Collapse; The Magazine Business; Wider Horizons; FIAWOL or FIJAGH; Watershed; The Survivors; The Torch Passes; Rebellion: The New Wave and Art; Enter: Academe; The Big Con Game; The Fifth Age; Fantasy; Buck Rogers and Mr Spock; Glossary; Themes and Variations; Utopias and Dystopias; But What Good Is It; Mene Mene Tekel; and After Star Wars.. First Printing - First Thus. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo. Book.