Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket in good condition. Jacket is marked, edges are creased and nicked, and a small dog-ear to the upper edge of the rear inner flap. Board edges, corners and spine ends are slightly bumped, and page block lightly tanned. Pages and text are clear and unmarked throughout. LW
Frederik George Pohl, Jr. was an American science fiction writer, editor and fan, with a career spanning over seventy years. From about 1959 until 1969, Pohl edited Galaxy magazine and its sister magazine IF winning the Hugo for IF three years in a row. His writing also won him three Hugos and multiple Nebula Awards. He became a Nebula Grand Master in 1993.
I've been keeping lists of books read since college. Regularly occurring during breaks from school are bursts of science fiction reading after months of more serious reading. Very little intelligence went into most of these book and author selections. Rather, I would pick up books from yard sales, junk stores and resale shops all through the year, accumulating piles to be read during these periods of freedom. Short story collections would generally be favored because at least some of the pieces within would likely be good. Novels by unknown or unremembered authors were much greater risks.
This was one such acquisition, about which I recall nothing in particular--probably read the whole thing in a sitting.