Dating from June of 2017 (gadzooks!), this was one the earliest posts at WordsEnvisioned: The cover of the third volume (or, third series, as it were) of stories published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction during 1953.
The post originally showing a rather bedraggled copy of the book, which I purchased at a flea market some decades ago. (See image at bottom.) It’s now been updated with a pristine copy, which presents Edmund Emshwiller’s cover art in its complete imagination and intricacy. In this case, for Kay Rogers’ tale “Experiment”.
This is also a great example of how “Emsh” sort of “hid” his nickname in his illustrations: In this case, “EMSH” appears in tiny blue letters in the center of the aquatic space-alien’s chest. Uh, assuming the space-alien has a chest…
“Attitudes”, by Philip Jose Farmer, October, 1953
“Maybe Just a Little One”, by Reginald Bretnor, February, 1953
“The Star Gypsies”, by William Lindsay Graham, July, 1953
“The Untimely Toper”, by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, July, 1953
“Vandy, Vandy”, by Manly Wade Wellman, March, 1953
“Experiment, by Kay Rogers, February, 1953
“Lot”, by Ward Moore, May, 1953
“Manuscript Found in a Vacuum”, by Philip Maitland Hubbard, August, 1953
“The Maladjusted Classroom”, by Homer Czar Nearing, Jr., June, 1953
“Child by Chronos”, by Charles L. Harness, June, 1953
“New Ritual”, by Idris Seabright, January, 1953
“Devlin”, by William Bernard Ready, April, 1953
“Captive Audience”, by Anne Warren Griffith, August, 1953
“Snulbug”, by Anthony Boucher, May, 1953 (originally in Unknown Worlds, December, 1941)
“Shepherd’s Boy”, by Richard Middleton, March, 1953 (originally in The Ghost Ship & Other Stories, May, 1912)
“Star Light, Star Bright”, by Alfred Bester, July, 1953
Reference
The Best From Fantasy and Science Fiction – Third Series, at Internet Speculative Fiction Database
6/19/17