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The Thirty-First of February

Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author	Nelson Bond
Cover artist	James Gibson
Language	English
Genre	Fantasy
Publisher	Gnome Press
Publication date	1949
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	272

The Thirty-First of February is a collection of fantasy stories by American writer Nelson Bond. It was released in 1949 by Gnome Press in an edition of 5,000 copies. Most of the stories had previously appeared in the magazines Blue Book, Unknown, Fantastic Adventures, Esquire and Amazing Stories.

Contents

• Introduction, by James Branch Cabell
• "The Sportsman"
• "The Mask of Medusa"
• "My Nephew Norvell"
• "The Ring"
• "The Gripes of Wraith"
• "The Cunning of the Beast"
• "The Five Lives of Robert Jordan"
• "Take My Drum to England—"
• "Saint Mulligan"
• "The Monster from Nowhere"
• "The Man Who Walked Through Glass"
• "The Enchanted Pencil"
• "Pilgrimage"

Reception

Astounding reviewer Forrest J Ackerman punningly praised the collection as "first-class funtasy, leavened with a soupcon of sobriety."

Sources

• Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 298.
• Contento, William G. "Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections". Retrieved 2008-02-23.

External links

• The Thirty-first of February title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database