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May 1975, Vol. 48, No. 4, Whole No. 288. Mercury Press, Inc. Digest format; cover price $1.00 (UK 45p). Cover art by Dario Campanile for Harlan Ellison's "Croatoan." Edited by Edward L. Ferman; Isaac Asimov, science editor. Featured issue for collectors of Harlan Ellison and vintage F&SF digests. Cover story: "Croatoan" by Harlan Ellison. Also includes part 2 of 3 of Robert Silverberg's novel "The Stochastic Man"; novelets by Manly Wade Wellman & Wade Wellman and James P. Girard; short fiction by Vance Aandahl, Liz Hufford, and C. G. Cobb; Isaac Asimov's science column "The Planet That Wasn't"; and departments by Avram Davidson, Baird Searles, and Gahan Wilson. Table of contents and memorial page for Joseph W. Ferman (1906–1974) confirm issue dating (see listing photos). Condition: Good vintage digest. Mailing label on back cover. Inside front cover shows foxing and water staining along the binding edge. Small nick at top-left of front cover; light spine edge chipping and a small mark near the bottom of the spine; bottom front corner curl. Typical page-edge tanning throughout; dark stain on the bottom page edge visible in photos. Interior pages readable; binding intact.