Description
Up For Sale Today is
Science Fiction Plus
March 1953
No. 1
Edited by Hugo Gernsback
Trade PB. 4to. Gernsback Publications, New York. 1953. 66 pgs. Illustrated.
Wrappers worn with some shelf-wear to the extremities present (wrappers have light chipping present; No. 1 wirtten on the front wrapper). Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid.
Front cover art of "Cosmatomic Flyer" by Alex Schomburg, and back cover art by Frank R. Paul. Features first publication of a Philip Jose Farmer novelette, "The Biological Revolt", which has never been reprinted. Novelettes: Exploration of Mars by Hugo Gernsback, The Biological Revolt by Philip Jose Farmer, The Other Side of Zero by Dr Donald Menzel; Short Stories; The Time Cylinder by Eando Binder; Utopia by John Scott Campbell; Story Behind the Cover: The Cosmatomic Flyer by Grena Gashbuck; Articles: Rapid Wonder Plants by Dr Gustav Albrecht; The Evolution of the Space Ship by Leslie Shepherd & A V Cleaver, F.R.An.s; Features: The Impact of Science-Fiction on World Progress (Editorial) by Hugo Gernsback; Science New Shorts by H Wakefield Secor; Book Reviews by Sam Moskowitz; Stranger than Science Fiction; Science Questions and Answers; Science Quiz.
Features first publication of a Philip Jose Farmer novelette, "The Biological Revolt", which has never been reprinted.
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| Book formats and corresponding sizes | ||||||
| Name | Abbreviations | Leaves | Pages | Approximate cover size (width × height) | ||
| inches | cm | |||||
| folio | 2º or fo | 2 | 4 | 12 × 19 | 30.5 × 48 | |
| quarto | 4º or 4to | 4 | 8 | 9½ × 12 | 24 × 30.5 | |
| octavo | 8º or 8vo | 8 | 16 | 6 × 9 | 15 × 23 | |
| duodecimo or twelvemo | 12º or 12mo | 12 | 24 | 5 × 7⅜ | 12.5 × 19 | |
| sextodecimo or sixteenmo | 16º or 16mo | 16 | 32 | 4 × 6¾ | 10 × 17 | |
| octodecimo or eighteenmo | 18º or 18mo | 18 | 36 | 4 × 6½ | 10 × 16.5 | |
| trigesimo-secundo or thirty-twomo | 32º or 32mo | 32 | 64 | 3½ × 5½ | 9 × 14 | |
| quadragesimo-octavo or forty-eightmo | 48º or 48mo | 48 | 96 | 2½ × 4 | 6.5 × 10 | |
| sexagesimo-quarto or sixty-fourmo | 64º or 64mo | 64 | 128 | 2 × 3 | 5 × 7.5 | |
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