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A MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1959. Octavo, illustrated by Joseph Mugniani, boards. First edition. Collects the title story and 21 others, including "The Dragon," "Fever Dream," "A Scent of Sarsaparilla," "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed," and "The Day It Rained Forever." Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #260.
THE OCTOBER COUNTRY.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1955]. Octavo, illustrations by Joe Mugnaini, original red cloth, lettered in black. First edition. Currey binding B2, probable second state with publisher's logo printed correctly at base of spine. This title reprints the contents of DARK CARNIVAL (1947), most with revisions and it also includes four stories collected here for the first time; "The Dwarf," "The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse," "Touched With Fire," and "The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone." See Barron: Horror Literature 3-34. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #259.
THE OCTOBER COUNTRY.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1955]. Octavo, illustrations by Joe Mugnaini, original red cloth, lettered in black. First edition. Currey binding B1, probable first state of the trade binding with publisher's logo inverted at base of spine. This title reprints the contents of DARK CARNIVAL (1947), most with revisions and it also includes four stories collected here for the first time; "The Dwarf," "The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse," "Touched With Fire," and "The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone." See Barron: Horror Literature 3-34. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #259.
THE OCTOBER COUNTRY.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1955]. Octavo, Illustrated by Joe Mugnaini, original red cloth, lettered in black. First edition. Currey binding B1, probable first state of the trade binding with publisher's logo inverted at base of spine. This title reprints the contents of DARK CARNIVAL (1947), most with revisions and it also includes four stories collected here for the first time; "The Dwarf," "The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse," "Touched With Fire," and "The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone." See Barron: Horror Literature 3-34. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #259.
THE OCTOBER COUNTRY.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1955]. Octavo, illustrations by Joe Mugnaini, original red cloth, lettered in black. First edition. Currey binding B1, probable first state of the trade binding with publisher's logo inverted at base of spine. This title reprints the contents of DARK CARNIVAL (1947), most with revisions and it also includes four stories collected here for the first time; "The Dwarf," "The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse," "Touched With Fire," and "The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone." See Barron: Horror Literature 3-34. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #259.
OCTOBER.
Los Angeles: [Shottlebop Press], 1983. Octavo, pp. [1-12] (not paginated), pictorial wrappers. First edition. Inscribed on the front cover by Bradbury, dated 1984. First printing of a long, early Bradbury poem completed in 1940. The poem was originally recorded in 1940, Daugherty rescued the recording from the Ackerman Archives and transcribed it for this publication. Privately printed by Walt Daugherty and Mary Ellen Rabogliatti. Reportedly limited to 150 copies.
ONE MORE FOR THE ROAD: A NEW STORY COLLECTION ...
[New York]: William Morrow, [2002]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects twenty-four stories with afterword by Bradbury.
"The Other Foot." In NEW-STORY.
New York: Gargoyle Press, Inc., March 1951 (number 1). Octavo, single issue, printed wrappers. The first appearance in a magazine of this classic story about racism and forgiveness set in the future on Mars after Earth is ruined by the Third World War. This story was first published in February 1951 in THE THE ILLUSTRATED MAN. However, the release of both was probably more or less simultaneous. Its first appearance in an anthology was in THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 1952, edited by Martha Foley (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1952). Foley also collected this story in FIFTY BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES: 1915-1965 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965). The first separate edition was published in 1982 by The Perfection Form Company as a paperbound booklet. Nolan, pp. 114, 197, 275, and 280.
QUICKER THAN THE EYE.
New York: Avon Books, [1996]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collection of twenty-one stories. Nine original to this collection.
S IS FOR SPACE.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects sixteen stories, most of them classics. Three stories, "Chrysalis," "Pillar of Fire" and "Time in Thy Flight" appear here for the first time in a book, and "The Screaming Woman" appears here in this format for the first time in a book (a comic book adaptation appeared earlier in THE AUTUMN PEOPLE [1965]).
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES...
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "...remains the quintessential Bradbury fiction." – Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature IV, pp. 1769-73. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-45. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-51.
THAT GHOST, THAT BRIDE OF TIME: EXCERPTS FROM A PLAY-IN-PROGRESS BASED ON THE MOBY DICK MYTHOLOGY AND DEDICATED TO HERMAN MELVILLE...
[Glendale, California: Roy A. Squires, March, 1976.]. Octavo, printed wrappers with unprinted paper overlay. First edition. Limited to 400 numbered copies of which this is one of the first 150 copies with recto of final leaf imprinted "Subscriber's Copy" and bearing Bradbury's signature.
THAT SON OF RICHARD III: A BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT...
[Glendale, California]: Roy A. Squires, 1974. Octavo, printed wrappers with marbled paper overlay. First edition. Limited to 485 copies of which this is one of 85 numbered copies in roman numerals (I-LXXXV) signed by Bradbury comprising the “Autograph Edition.”.
THE TOYNBEE CONVECTOR.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. This is the author's first story collection since 1980.
THE TOYNBEE CONVECTOR.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. This is the author's first story collection since 1980.
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TWICE TWENTY-TWO: THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN [and] A MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed inscription by Bradbury dated in the year of publication. Combined edition of the two volumes, The Golden Apples of the Sun and A Medicine For Melancholy. Uncommon, more so in condition.
THE VINTAGE BRADBURY: RAY BRADBURY'S OWN SELECTION OF HIS BEST STORIES.
New York: Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, [1965]. Octavo, buckram. First edition. Signed by Bradbury on the front free end paper: "Stanley! / Ray Bradbury / 3/28/83." Stanley is Stanley Simon, long time New York area science fiction book collector. Collects 23 stories.
THE VINTAGE BRADBURY: RAY BRADBURY'S OWN SELECTION OF HIS BEST STORIES.
New York: Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, [1965]. Octavo, buckram. First edition. Signed and dated by Bradbury on the front free end paper. Collects 23 stories. Published as a paperback original with a small number of copies done in hardcover.
WHERE ROBOT MICE AND ROBOT MEN RUN ROUND IN ROBOT TOWNS.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Review slip laid in. Collection of Poems.
WHERE ROBOT MICE AND ROBOT MEN RUN ROUND IN ROBOT TOWNS.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Collection of Poems.
BEST DETECTIVE STORIES OF THE YEAR 1955.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1955. Octavo, boards. First edition. Anthology of detective fiction selected from popular magazines. Collects twelve stories with Evan Hunter, Ellery Queen, Ray Bradbury, John D. MacDonald, Richard Marsten and others.
OTHER WORLDS SCIENCE STORIES.
Evanston, IL. Clark Publishing Company, 1950. Small octavo, single issue, cover by Malcolm Smith, pictorial wrappers. Digest size magazine. Includes "Way in the Middle of the Air" by Ray Bradbury, one of the Martian Chronicles.
SUPER SCIENCE STORIES.
Toronto: Fictioneers, Inc., 1949. Octavo, single issue, cover by Lawrence, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, Canadian issue, issued simultaneously with the U. S. edition with identical story content, editorial control in New York. Includes "The Silence" by Ray Bradbury. Other fiction by Henry Kuttner, James Blish, Manly Wade Wellman and others. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 631-635.
SUPER SCIENCE STORIES.
Toronto: Fictioneers, Inc., 1949. Octavo, single issue, cover by Lawrence, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, Canadian issue, issued simultaneously with the U. S. edition with identical story content, editorial control in New York. Includes "Changeling" by Ray Bradbury." Other fiction by John D. MacDonald, Arthur C. Clarke, and others. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 631-635.
SUPER SCIENCE STORIES.
Toronto: Fictioneers, Inc., 1949. Octavo, single issue, cover by Lawrence, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, Canadian issue, issued simultaneously with the U. S. edition with identical story content, editorial control in New York. Includes "Impossible" by Ray Bradbury. Other fiction by John D. MacDonald (2 stories-one as John Wade Farrell), Neil R. Jones, Fredric Brown and others. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 631-635.