KNIGHT, DAMON — Hell's Pavement

New York, NY: Lion Library, 1955. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB. Illustrated by Richard Powers. Cover Art; This is a mass market paperback book. Lion Library book number LL 13, with a price of .35 cents. The book is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing, with a bit more rubbing to the top spine end. The text pages are generally clean, but have noticeable generalized toning / darkening. "Knight's forte was the short story; he is widely acknowledged as having been a master of the genre. To the general public he is best known as the author of "To Serve Man", a 1950 short story adapted for The Twilight Zone. It won a 50-year Retro-Hugo in 2001 as the best short story of 1950. Knight was also a science fiction critic, a career which began when he wrote in 1945 that A. E. Van Vogt "is not a giant as often maintained. He's only a pygmy who has learned to operate an overgrown typewriter." He ceased reviewing when Fantasy & Science Fiction refused to publish his review of Judith Merril's novel The Tomorrow People. These reviews were later collected in In Search of Wonder. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good- .