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FOLKS WERE BACK!!! MY INVENTORY HAS BEEN OFFLINE DUE TO A MOVE TOO A NEW STATE. IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS I WILL CHERRY PICK MY STOCK TO LIST. I.HAVE OVER 500 BOXES IN STORAGE AND MY WAREHOUSE WILL NOT BE READY FOR A FEW MONTHS A LEAST. AGAIN I ALWAYS COMBINE SHIPPING CHARGES. Australian monthly pocketbook magazine, a companion to Selected Science Fiction . 41 issues, May 1952-September 1955, unnumbered and undated 32pp booklets. Published by Malian Press, Sydney; no editor named, but likely to be the publisher, James Mitchell. The word "magazine" was not added to the cover until issue #25 suggesting that this had started as a book series rather than a magazine, and that the publisher had bought book rights rather than serial rights to stories. The "title" (more like a strap-line) American Science Fiction did not appear until issue #4. Each issue ran usually one or two stories, sometimes as many as four, reprinted from US magazines, of quite a good standard, including work by James Blish , Nelson Bond , John W Campbell Jr, Henry Kuttner and Robert A Heinlein . All of the covers were by Stanley Pitt (1925-2002). [MA/PN/FHP]