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Digest softcover. Condizione: Good+. Emsh (illustratore). A very nice copy of the short lived Venture Science Fiction digest that only saw ten editions during its first run in the late 1950s. Bright covers with standard toned pages. Chipping to the spine ends and a hard bump at the foot. Small creases and chips to the lower corner of pages 11-16 as well as the last three leaves and back cover. There is a 1 inch tear on the inside of the back cover near the spine resultant of a crack to the spine that can be exposed if bent.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condizione: Very Good-. Vol. 3, No. 3. Edited by Leo Margulies. Cover by Kelly Freas ("The Story Behind the Cover" by Frank Belknap Long). Includes "Just Around the Corner" by William Scarff (aka Budrys); "Miracle in the Moluccas" by F. B. Bryning; "Who?" by Algis Budrys; "The Quality of Mercy" by Robert F. Young; "Life, Incorporated" by Alice Eleanor Jones; "Witch Hunt" by Len Guttridge; "The Visitor from Space" by J. Harvey Haggard; "Bye Bye, Mindy" by Milton Lesser; "A Rite for Stalek" by Dorothy Madle; "Arrival at Anxiety" by Jerome Bishop; "Thunderbolt" by John A. Sentry (aka Budrys); "The Hollywood Habit" by William Morrison; "Devil Play" by Nathaniel Norsen Weinreb. Spine covered with white tape (?) with title and date written in - apparently a private, or personal library add-on to make spine appear uniform with other issues we purchased from same lot; light rubbing; minor corner chips; tanning. Book.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condizione: Very Good. Vol. 2, No. 1. Edited by Robert P. Mills. Cover by Emsh for "The End of Winter" by William Scarff. Includes "Falling Torch" (novelet) by Algis Budrys; "Fecundity Limited!" by Isaac Asimov; "Robots Should Be Seen" by Lester del Rey; "Skin Game" by James E. Gunn; "Books on Hand. . .Off Hand" by Theodore Sturgeon; "New Moon" (short novelet) by Doug Morrissey; "The Meddler" by John Novotny; "The Enemy" by Damon Knight; "Venturings". Illustrated by Giunta. Creasing; tanning; corner wear; minor tears at heel. Book.

Reprint (first published 1958 as Maryland Historical Society Studies in Maryland History, No. 4). xvi, 175 pages. Octavo; H 26cm x L 21cm. Dust jacket rubbed with light soiling; some scuffing at edges and folds. Red-brown cloth with vibrant gilt stamped lettering to spine. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding is firm. With endpaper maps, frontispiece, Preface, plans, b/w photographs, Notes, and Index. Reviews the life and work William Buckland, an important colonial architect whose most famous commissions were Gunston Hall, the residence of George Mason, in Fairfax County, Virginia and the Hammond-Harwood House in Annapolis, Maryland. Numerous other buildings in Virginia and Maryland (particularly in the Annapolis area) are attributed to Buckland but with less certainty as direct records are no longer extant. {Shelf #CVA-00975}.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condizione: Very Good+ to Near Fine. Vol. 1, No. 2. Edited by Algis Budrys. Cover art by Paul Lehr for "Explosions" by William Scarff. Includes "The Toolman" (novella) by Valerie J. Freireich; "Do I Know You?" (novelette) by Robert Reed; "In Memory of Prince Edward" (novelette) by Susan Alles Blom; "Experiment of Mann" by Chloe Bolan; "In the Year of Purple Flowers" by Geoffrey A. Landis; "December Morning" by Eolake Stobblehouse. Article: "Writing, Part Two" by editor, Algis Budrys, who has signed and dated this issue. Illustrated by Hillary Barta, Charles Dougherty, Kelly Faltermayer, Peter H. Francis, Bob Hobbs, Judith Holman, and Peggy Ranson. Light stress; minor bumps and dings; mild tanning. Signed by Editors. Book.