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BRADBURY, RAY.
The Illustrated Man.
8vo, original light brown cloth with
dark brown spine titles; dust jacket, minor rubbing at spine panel and front flap corners,
some shelfwear to rear panel; ownership inscription on rear pastedown.
FIRST EDITION
,
FIRST PRINTING
.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1951
[700/1,000]
WITH
—
Another copy. Front hinge tender, rear endpapers with area of toning from laid-in clip-
ping. Later printing, in $2.95 priced dust jacket. Inscribed, dated, and with an dynamic
original illustration in blue pen by Bradbury redolent of the pictorial cover. Garden City, 1951.
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BRADBURY, RAY.
The October Country.
Illustrated by Joe Mugnaini. 8vo,
publisher’s red cloth, minor rubbing to spine tips and corners; dust jacket, price-clipped,
spine panel faded as usual, cellotape repairs to verso, scattered rubbing and finger-soiling,
but still presentable.
FIRST EDITION IN THE FIRST ISSUE DUST
-
JACKET
with upside-down
publisher monogram on jacket spine.
NewYork: Ballantine, (1955)
[350/500]
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BRADBURY, RAY.
Group of 3 Signed First Editions.
8vo, original cloth;
unclipped dust jackets, condition very good, see notes below.
NewYork: vd
[500/750]
The Machineries of Joy. Dust jacket spine panel faded slightly, overall light smudging. Simon &
Schuster, 1964 * I Sing the Body Electric! Dust jacket with slight soft creasing along top edges.
Ownership signature above Inscription dated October 8, 1978. Knopf, 1969 * When
Elephants Last In the Dooryard Bloomed.Textblock skewed slightly. Knopf, 1973.
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BRADBURY, RAY.
Group of 4 First Editions.
8vo, original cloth; dust jackets
(but one), this and other condition notes below.
NewYork: vd
[400/600]
The Golden Apples of the Sun. Doubleday, 1953 * Switch On the Night. Lacking dust
jacket. Pantheon, (1955) * A Medicine For Melancholy. Some shelfwear to dust jacket.
Doubleday, 1959 * S is For Space. Minor edgewear and a few short closed tears to dust jacket.
Doubleday, 1966.
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BRADBURY,
RAY.
The
Illustrated Man.
8vo, original light
brown cloth with dark brown spine titles;
dust jacket, minor rubbing at spine panel
ends, slim lines of faint age-toning along
inner flap folds.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1951
[1,200/1,800]
SIGNED FIRST EDITION
,
FIRST PRINTING
,
with an early inscription on the front free end-
paper:
“For Mr. Duncan - With my best
personal regards and luck - it was nice
meeting you - from Ray Brabury. Feb,
1951.” A bright, lovely copy signed in the
year of publication, and rather uncommon
as such.
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