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  • Publication: Famous Fantastic Classics #2Publication Record # 255009
  • Editor: uncredited
  • Date: 1975-00-00
  • ISBN: 0-913960-11-X [978-0-913960-11-0]
  • Publisher: FAX Collector's Editions
  • Price:
    $5.00?$: US dollar
  • Pages: 128
  • Format:
    tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
  • Type: ANTHOLOGY
  • Cover: Famous Fantastic Classics #2 by Michael Kaluta [as by Michael William Kaluta]
  • Notes:
    • New text material copyright 1975 by Fax Collectors Editions, Inc.
    • Cover Art Copyright 1975 by Michael William Kaluta. There is a black and white reproduction of the cover on page 1. It has a FAX Collectors Editions ribbon below it. The Front cover below the art has a blurb about the contents.
    • "The Stagnant Death" by H. Bedford-Jones copyright 1938 by the McCall Company. No record of separate renewal.
    • "The Radio Flyers" by Ralph Milne Farley copyright 1929 by The Frank A. Munsey Company. No record of separate renewal.
    • No pricing in/on book.
    • "These books are published in Limited editions only" from the back cover.
    • Back cover has subscription offer of six books for $25.00.
    • Introduction is an essay on these stories and the publishing hopes of the series.
    • "Illustrated by John Clymer, Austin Briggs and the XVIIIth Century cartographer De L'Isle". This in small print under a large splash title banner "'Trumpets From Oblivion' series 'The Stagnant Death'". This is over a drawing of old masted ships. Immediately below the picture is the 'Illustrated by' credits. The inference is that this covers page 6 through page 20 only. Two clear 'Clymer' signatures on pages 13 and 16.
    • No illustration attribution for 'The Radio Flyers' segment of the publication.
    • From the apparent look of the illustrations, they come from the original magazine material.
    • Reginald3 credits Robert Weinberg as editor.
  • External IDs:
Cover art supplied by ISFDB on this Web page
Anthology Title: Famous Fantastic Classics #2 • anthology by uncredited

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