• Publication: The Best of C. L. MoorePublication Record # 445028
• Author: C. L. Moore
• Date: 1981-01-00
• ISBN: 0-345-28952-8 [978-0-345-28952-0]
• Publisher: Del Rey / Ballantine
• Pub. Series: Ballantine's Classic Library of Science Fiction
• Pages: xv+368
• Format:
  pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Cover: The Best of C. L. Moore (1976) • by Greg Hildebrandt and Tim Hildebrandt
• Notes: 2nd Canadian printing. Date on this book from the 2nd US printing which actually dates to a month earlier, maybe in preparation for the Canadian printing.

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• ix • Introduction: Forty Years of C. L. Moore • (1975) • essay by Lester del Rey
• 1 • Shambleau • [Northwest Smith] • (1933) • novelette by C. L. Moore
• 33 • Black Thirst • [Northwest Smith] • (1934) • novelette by C. L. Moore
• 72 • The Bright Illusion • (1934) • short story by C. L. Moore
• 100 • Black God's Kiss • [Jirel of Joiry] • (1934) • novelette by C. L. Moore
• 131 • Tryst in Time • (1936) • novelette by C. L. Moore
• 159 • Greater Than Gods • (1939) • novelette by C. L. Moore
• 199 • Fruit of Knowledge • (1940) • novelette by C. L. Moore
• 236 • No Woman Born • (1944) • novella by C. L. Moore
• 289 • Daemon • (1946) • novelette by C. L. Moore
• 315 • Vintage Season • (1962) • novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by C. L. Moore]
• 365 • Afterword: Footnote to "Shambleau"... and Others • (1975) • essay by C. L. Moore