PRIME PRESS

PRIME PRESS
   Short-lived (the business had failed by 1953) US SMALL PRESS specializing in sf; based in Philadelphia, founded in 1947 by Oswald TRAIN (editorial) and James Williams, along with two fans, Alfred C. Prime and Armand E. Waldo, who later dropped out. Several of PP's few titles are of interest,including the first-published books of Lester DEL REY, George O. SMITH and Theodore STURGEON: respectively, . . . And Some Were Human (coll 1948),Venus Equilateral (coll of linked stories 1947) and Without Sorcery (coll 1948; cut vt Not without Sorcery 1961).
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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