Compilation of stories and poems from the 1930s pulp magazine Magic Carpet.CONTENTS:The Magic Carpet Magazine ed. William H. Desmond, Diane & John Howard & Robert K. Weiner (Melrose Highlands, MA: Odyssey Publications OP 09, 1977, $4.50, 128pp, tp)ifc • The Magic Magazine • essay by Will Murray2 • The Vagabond-at-Arms • (1933) • novelette by Seabury Quinn2 •  The Vagabond-at-Arms • (1933) • interior artwork by Jayem Wilcox20 • Berber Loot • (1933) • novelette by H. Bedford-Jones20 •  Berber Loot • (1933) • interior artwork by Jayem Wilcox42 • The Kiss Of Zoraida • (1933) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith42 •  The Kiss Of Zoraida • (1933) • interior artwork by uncredited46 • The Maid Of Mir Ammon • (1933) • short story by Grace Keon46 •  The Maid Of Mir Ammon • (1933) • interior artwork by Joseph Doolin55 • The Nanking Road • (1933) • poem by Frank Owen [as by Hung Long Tom ]56 • Ismeddin And The Holy Carpet • [Ismeddin] • (1933) • novelette by E. Hoffmann Price56 •  Ismeddin And The Holy Carpet • (1933) • interior artwork by Joseph Doolin77 • Face Pidgin • (1933) • short story by James W. Bennett85 • The Snake-Men Of Kaldar • [Stuart Merrick] • (1933) • novelette by Edmond Hamilton85 •  The Snake-Men Of Kaldar • (1933) • interior artwork by Jayem Wilcox107 • The River Of Perfumes • (1934) • short story by Warren Hastings Miller107 •  The River Of Perfumes • (1934) • interior artwork by Jayem Wilcox118 • Alleys Of Darkness • [Dennis Dorgan] • (1934) • short story by Robert E. Howard [as by Patrick Ervin ]118 •  Alleys Of Darkness • (1934) • interior artwork by Jayem Wilcox128 • The Souk • essay by William H. Desmond and Diane M. Howard and John R. Howard and Robert K. Wiener128 •  The Souk • (1930) • interior artwork by Donald von Gelb About the Odyssey Reprints:The concept of the facsimile reprint may have been invented by Charles Bragin back in the 1940s with his Dime Novel Club which published facsimile editions of dime novels (from 1945-1960).One of the first companies to attempt to extend the practice to pulp magazines was Odyssey Publications.From 1974 to 1981, Odyssey Publications published a series of eleven anthologies of pulp stories in a perfect-bound trade paperback format. The original plan was to publish sets of four titles: two "full count" reprints of single issues of pulps and two original "best of" collections of stories selected by a group of editors. Each volume would feature stories from a particular pulp title. Though they were called "full count" reprints, the Odyssey Publications reprints of single issues of pulps were not complete cover-to-cover facsimiles because they omitted all the original ads and thus had fewer pages and different pagination.By the time the company finally went out of business sometime around 1986, only six "full count" reprints and five original collections had been published.   Note: If the covers of some issues appear off-register, it's not the scan. The color registration of the covers of the Odyssey Publications was often badly off register.