AND THE GODS LAUGHED

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original heavy black cloth with silver titles to the spine, in the Frank Kelly Freas illustrated dustwrapper and black cloth slipcase. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. With the lightly creased dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped ($50 on the front flap). Housed in the fine structurally sound slipcase.

Issued in a limited edition of 475 copies, from which this example is numbered 281 and signed by Fredric Brown and Mack Reynolds (who collaborated with Brown on six of the stories) on the limitation page. The signed leaves used for this publication were originally intended for use in the subsequently unreleased subscriber's issue of 'Science-Fiction Carnival' published by Shasta in 1953. A collection of over 70 of Brown's short science fiction, detective and horror stories.