[San Antonio, Texas: San Antonio Public Library, 1962.]. Octavo, pp. [1-12], decorated wrappers, stapled. First edition. Inscribed and signed on the first leaf by Bradbury to a well known fan. Booklet issued by the library with the feature being Ray Bradbury's "Letters to a Young Aspiring Author." This letter was sent to student at Rice University.

[New York]: William Morrow, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2005]. Octavo, printed wrappers. Advance uncorrected proof. Bibliography.

[New York]: William Morrow An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2004]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects twenty-one stories and a poem.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957. Octavo. cloth. First edition. Set in small town America in the summer of 1928, a time right before the Great Depression and WW II. "A bucolic evocation of Bradbury's youth through rose-colored glasses. Though not strictly fantastic, this poetic blend of nostalgia and ever-so-slightly macabre happenings defines the author's view of the past as a country of the bizarre and the wonderful, and is central to Bradbury's fantasy world." - Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-44. "The poignant quality of Bradbury's writing, the evocative elements that will capture others than his usual audience, combine to make this an unusual reading experience." Kirkus Review 1 March 1975 (from a new release). [Reference: Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 19].

Sauk City: Arkham House, 1947. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 3112 copies printed. The author's first book. Collects twenty-seven stories, most first appearing in magazines, sixteen from WEIRD TALES. Six stories are published here for the first time; "The Maiden," "The Emissary," "Jack-in-the-Box," "Uncle Einer," "The Night Sets," and "Next in Line.". [Reference: Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-34. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #254. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-42].

Sauk City: Arkham House, 1947. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first book. Collects twenty-seven stories, most first appearing in magazines, sixteen from WEIRD TALES. Six stories are published here for the first time; "The Maiden," "The Emissary," "Jack-in-the-Box," "Uncle Einer," "The Night Sets," and "Next in Line." [Reference: Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-34. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #254. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-42].

Sauk City: Arkham House, 1947. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first book. Collects twenty-seven stories, most first appearing in magazines, sixteen from WEIRD TALES. Six stories are published here for the first time; "The Maiden," "The Emissary," "Jack-in-the-Box," "Uncle Einer," "The Night Sets," and "Next in Line." [Reference: Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-34. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #254. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-42].

Salt Lake City: Gibbs-Smith Publisher, [1997]. Small octavo, illustrations by Louise Reinoehl Max, boards. First edition. Introduction by Bradbury.

New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo, Singapore: Simon & Schuster, [1993]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. New edition. New foreword by Ray Bradbury. This edition omits the other two stories from the original publication "The Playground" and "The Rock Cried Out." A short novel expanded from the novella "The Fireman" published in 1951. "While the jet bombers boom overhead and another nuclear war threatens, Americans live a mindless life in a society where everyone is encouraged to lose himself in such distractions as four-wall television, hearing-aid radios, high-speed travel, and group sports. Life is reduced to the paste-pudding norm of a mass audience, for it serves the purpose of the government to keep people from thinking ... The gadget are, of course, marvelous and everywhere, while the greatest enemies of the status quo are books, which, when they are occasionally discovered, are burned by firemen who are, in this fireproof age, no longer needed to put out fires, but to set them ..." - Hillegas, The Future as Nightmare, pp. 158-9. "In a totalitarian state, books are burned and private thought or action is criminal." - Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 159. Filmed in 1966 by Francois Truffaut. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-154. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-32. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #255. Pringle: Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels #3].

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1953. Octavo, illustrated by Joe Mugnaini, boards. First edition. Collects twenty-two stories including "The Fog Horn," "The Pedestrian," and "A Sound of Thunder." The author's fourth book. "The Fog Horn" is the source story for the film "The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms" (1952) and "A Sound of Thunder" was filmed in 2006. A major collection of the author's fiction. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-62. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 258].