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BRADBURY, RAY.
Fahrenheit 451.
8vo, red boards lettered in yellow, outer
board edges mottled slightly, vertical crease along spine; dust jacket, overall finger-soiling,
small nicks at corners, closed tear at lower front and spine panel fold, unclipped.
FIRST EDI
-
TION
. Pringle 749-55.
NewYork: Ballantine, (1953)
[1,000/1,500]
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(BRADBURY, RAY.) Jerry Weist.
Bradbury: An Illustrated Life.
Illustrated
throughout. Folio, original full red leatherette, gilt-stamped; housed in matching felt-lined
folding tray-case.
Hampton Falls: Donald M. Grant, 2004
[500/750]
LIMITED EDITION
,
SIGNED BY BRADBURY AND WEIST
.
PUBLISHER
S COPY
,
indicated on the
limitation in red ink above the respective autographs.An out-of-series example from a total edi-
tion of 376 lettered or numbered copies. This edition includes The Ghosts of Forever, a
previously unpublished film script by Bradbury, and 83 story board illustrations by Joseph A.
Mugnani, as well as 16 illustrations by Bradbury to accompany the original manuscript of his
children’s book Switch on the Night, and much else.A very fine copy.
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BRADBURY, RAY.
Dandelion Wine.
8vo, yellow cloth stamped in blue and gold,
top edges stained yellow; original pictorial dust jacket, minor dust soiling, mostly on rear
panel, thin lines of age toning on folds and flap edges; few small remnants of old cellotate
on pastedowns.
FIRST EDITION
. With later affixed sticker on front free endpaper bearing
Bradbury’s presentation inscription: “For Richard Leekley - This copy of ‘DandelionWine’
signed with the good wishes of Ray Bradbury,April 1971.”
NewYork: Doubleday, 1957
[600/900]
WITH
Another copy. Price sticker on rear dust jacket panel. First printing of the 1975 edi-
tion. NY: 1975 * Another copy. Advance Review Copy with review slip and publisher’s TLS
(“Dear Bob,”) laid-in. NY: 1975 * Another copy. Printed wrappers, spine lightly faded, pen
marks to top of front cover.Advance Uncorrected Proof. NY: 1975.
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SIGNED LIMITED,
FIREPROOF EDITION
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BRADBURY, RAY.
Fahrenheit
451.
Illustrated by Joe Muganini. 8vo,
bound in white Johns-Manville Quinterra,
“an asbestos material with exceptional
resistance to pyrolysis” (incineration that
chemically decomposes organic materials
by heat in the absence of oxygen), lettered
in red, boards moderately rubbed with
smudging mainly to front cover, light wear
to spine tips and corners, but none of the
chipping to the boards as normally seen
with this title; internally clean with text
tight, bright and clean; housed in custom
clamshell case.
NewYork: Ballantine, (1953)
[6,000/9,000]
FIRST LIMITED EDITION OF THE FAMOUS
JOHNS
-
MANVILLE QUINTERRA ASBESTOS EDI
-
TION
,
NUMBERED
73
AND SIGNED BY
BRADBURY ON THE LIMITATION PAGE
.
Pringle,
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