The Best of Damon Knight

Garden City: Nelson Doubleday, 1976. first. Hardcover. Good/Good. Richard V. Corben. First edition. Dust jacket has edge wear, especially at spine; small closed tear at upper rear hinge; slightly faded image on spine; now in new removable protective cover. Blue boards with red print on spine. Pages are clean and unmarked, with small brown spots (foxing) at page edges. Nelson Doubleday (imprint of Science Fiction Book Club) hard cover with dust jacket, first printing May 1976 (code G17), SFBC #2474, 307 pages, cover art by Richard V. Corben. 8vo (8.5" x 5.75") First edition. Book club hard cover original, reprinted in mass paperback by Pocket Books. 6th place, 1977 Locus Poll Award, Best Author Collection. Contents include: Dark of the Knight, essay by Barry N. Malzberg; Introduction, essay by Damon Knight; 22 stories, including: Not With a Bang; To Serve Man (winner, Retro-Hugo Award for 1950); Cabin Boy; The Analogues; Babel II; Special Delivery; Thing of Beauty; Anachron; Extempore; Backward, O Time; The Last Word; Man in the Jar; The Enemy; Eripmav; A Likely Story; Time Enough; Mary; The Handler; The Big Pat Boom; Semper Fi; Masks (nominated, 1968 Nebula Award, 1969 Hugo Award); Down There.