[WORLD SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION]. Souvenir program booklet for Fourth Annual World Science Fiction Convention signed by numerous science fiction personalities. 1946.

8vo. Original printed wraps (very light rubbing, toning). Provenance: Forrest J. Ackerman (1916-2008), American), editor, magazine publisher, and science fiction author; acquired by the present owner directly from Ackerman; previously exhibited at the Museum of Science Fiction (now the Museum of Popular Culture in Seattle, c. 2004.

SIGNED BY RAY BRADBURY, A.E. VAN VOGT, ROBERT BLOCH, LEIGH BRACKETT, CHARLES D. HORNING, FLORENCE HORNIG, BRYCE WALTON, BOB OLSEN, R.S. RICHARDSON, AND FREDERIK POHL (UNDER HIS PSEUDONYM “LEE GREGOR”).

Additional signatures of 59 attendees. The Fourth World Science Fiction Convention was held at the Park View Manor in Los Angeles on 4-7 July 1946. This was the first convention held since 1942, as the annual events had been put on hiatus due to the Second World War. This year was also the first for which the Retro Hugo Awards, established in 1996 at the third Los Angeles WorldCon for works that would have been Hugo-eligible fifty years prior, were awarded.