"...AND SOME WERE HUMAN."

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Original dark blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the L. Robert Tschirky designed dustwrapper. Illustrated with black and white drawings by Sol Levin. A very good or better copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth lightly rubbed at the extremities, the spine tips and bottom corner of the upper board slightly bumped. There is some faint spotting along the top edge of the closed text-block, the contents are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owners stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the rubbed, nicked and creased original dustwrapper which is faded to the spine and has a closed tear midway up the front panel. Not price-clipped ($3.00 on the front flap).

Signed by Lester del Rey in blue ink on the front free endpaper. The author's first short story collection. Lester del Rey started his career writing for and editing weird fiction magazines such as Astounding Science Fiction, Space SF and Fantasy Fiction, and in 1977 he established the successful science fiction imprint Del Rey Books with his wife Judy-Lynne del Rey, who was an influential science fiction editor at Ballantine Books.