The Best of Astounding - Softcover

Baronet Publishing, 1978. Trade paperback, 1st edition, one of two printings. Collection of classic stories from 1940's-era Astounding Magazine. Introduction by the editor, and these stories: Letter to a Phoenix (1949) by Fredric Brown; Cold War (1949) by Kris Neville; Ex Machina (1948) by Henry Kuttner [as by Lewis Padgett]; Invariant (1944) by John Pierce; Police Operation (1948) by H. Beam Piper; Ogre (1944) by Clifford D. Simak; Thunder and Roses (1947) by Theodore Sturgeon. Interior illustrations by Orban, Brush, Edd Cartier, Willams, Kramer, Lester Elliot.