[PLANETE PLUS]Livre Rare Book
PLANET STORIES
1952réf. 23899New York: Love Romances 1952. Edge wear and stress creases ink stamp to title box small chip to lower front cover a very good copy. 23899. Octavo single issue cover by Vestal pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Incudes Philip K. Dick"s second professionally published story "The Gun." Unabashedly the magazine was a proponent of "space-opera." In Leigh Brackett's introduction in the anthology THE BEST OF PLANET STORIES 1974 she states "the so-called space opera is the folk-tale the hero-tale of our particular niche in history." Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 476-481. Love Romances unknown
