May 14, 2019 - Sale 2508

Sale 2508 - Lot 218

Price Realized: $ 344
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(SCIENCE FICTION.) Ackerman, Forrest J. Small Group of Fanzines. Appearing as contributor, editor, financer. Comprises: Science Fiction Digest, Volume 1, Number 4, December 1932, Signed; Science Fiction Digest, Volume 1, Number 8, April 1933, Signed by Ackerman and Julius Schwartz; Fantasy Magazine, Volume 5, Number 1, June 1935; The Damn Thing, Volume 1, Number 5, May 1941. Early mimeographed fanzines, stapled, age-toning, soiling, mailing fold and old tape to last item. Vd, vp

Additional Details

with-Document Signed. Publisher's contract "Concerning a collection to consist of The Toymaker, Model Shop, Deadly Host, Utility, Test of the Gods and Forecast." Heavily toned. 1948. Also with black and white photograph (10x8 inches, unsigned) showing 3/4 profile of Ackerman about to club a gorilla.