Chosen by the editors of The Saturday Evening Post.

New York: Random House, (1951).

 First edition, first printing.

"First printing" statement to the copyright page.

This seventh annual collection of the best Post tales of the year comprises eighteen short stories and two novelettes.

Ray Bradbury's story 'The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms' was first published in the June 21st 1951 issue of the Post magazine, and published here in book form for the first time, (later published in Bradbury's 1953 collection THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN).

The Bradbury story, later titled "The Fog Horn', was adapted to a Warner Bros. monster film in 1953 using Ray Harryhausen special effects, and based the look of the monster on the illustration used in the original 1951 Post magazine publication.

This best of 1951 anthology also contains a novelette by Mari Sandoz, and stories by Farley Mowat, James Ramsey Ullman, Arthur Gordon & more.

The dust jacket, after photographing will be placed in a quality Brodart brand protective, clear, removable jacket sleeve.

Slight age-toning to the end-papers as usual, wear to the upper spine edge, else very good, square and firm in textured blue linen with black titles to a blue title label to the decoratively blind embossed front cover and with silver embossed titles to the spine, upper page edges blue; in a slightly rubbed very good price-clipped dust jacket with shallow chips to the upper and lower spine edges, rubbing at the spine folds and with a few short shelf-edge tears.

Octavo; 310 pages.

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