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In 1945 Wollheim edited the first hardcover anthology from a major publisher and the first omnibus, The Viking Portable Novels of Science.

He also edited the first anthology of original sf, The Girl With the Hungry Eyes ( 1947 ), although there is evidence that this last was originally intended to be the first issue of a new magazine.

Between 1947 and 1951 he was the editor at the pioneering paperback publisher Avon Books, where he made available highly affordable editions of the works of A. Merritt, H. P. Lovecraft, and C. S. Lewis ' Silent Planet space trilogy, bringing these previously little-known authors a wide readership.

During this period he also edited the influential Avon Fantasy Reader for eighteen issues, and the Avon Science Fiction Reader for three.

These periodicals contained mostly reprints and a few original stories.