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Vintage fantasy science fiction pulp magazine Fantastic Adventures July 1946
$26.00
This is a “good” vintage “standard” format pulp magazine published in 1946, cover date July, cover price 25 cents, 178 newsprint pages.
Includes a 9,000 word short by Robert Bloch: “Tree’s A Crowd”, the author of “Psycho”.
Cover art by Arnold Kohn.
Spine is solid, no loose or folded pages, no writing internally, no tears, edges are moderately tanned. Cover colors are bright and uniform, front and back, with perhaps some slight sunning along the spine, front and back, but not elsewhere. Cover edges and overhangs are bumped, with many small closed tears and some chipping. There is one 3/4 – 1″ closed tear at the bottom of the back cover near the spine. One small pencil annotation (a “G” ?) in the title’s “F”, otherwise no marks.
Overall, a still very pleasing copy
See the accompanying images for table of contents & full condition details.
Will ship promptly, carefully packaged, with tracking.
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| Weight | .5 oz |
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| Dimensions | 10 × 5 × 2 in |
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