The Thirty-First of February

The Thirty-First of February

File:Thirty first of february.jpg Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author	Nelson Bond
Cover artist	James Gibson
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Fantasy short stories
Publisher	Gnome Press
Publication date	1949
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	272 pp

The Thirty-First of February is a collection of stories by author 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."

External links

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