First edition, first printing. Publisher's original grey cloth with titles and illustration in gilt and silver to the spine and upper board, in slipcase. Illustrated with a frontispiece and six full page colour plates by Florian Schommer. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps.
Selected and edited by Brian Aldiss. The stories include: Voltaire: Micromégas (1752); H. G. Wells: The Star (1897); Isaac Asimov: Bridle and Saddle (1942; Tom Godwin: The Greater Thing (1954); James H. Schmitz: Grandpa (1955); Brian W. Aldiss: Poor Little Warrior! (1959); Philip K. Dick: Recall Mechanism (1959); Harry Harrison: An Alien Agony (1962); Robert A. Heinlein: Searchlight (1962); Anna Kavan: Clarita (1970); James Tiptree, Jr: And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side (1972); Alice B. Wilson: The Day They Raised the Titanic (2015)
Stock code: 27073
£95