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THE CIRCUS OF DR. LAO AND OTHER IMPROBABLE STORIES.
New York: Bantam Books, [1956]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Bantam Giant A1519. Collects the title novella by Charles G. Finney and eleven stories by Nigel Kneale, E. B. White, Roald Dahl, Shirley Jackson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Loren Eiseley, and others. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 263.
DANDELION WINE.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Author's first novel. Barron (ed.): Fantasy Literature 4A-44. Pringle: Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels #19.
DANDELION WINE...
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957. Octavo. cloth. First edition. "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. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 19.
DARK CARNIVAL.
Springfield, PA, Gauntlet Publications, 2001. Octavo, cover painting by Ray Bradbury, leatherette. First limited and expanded edition. One of 700 numbered copies, signed by Bradbury and by Clive Barker (who writes the afterword). New edition, first limited, of Bradbury's first book. Edited by Donn Albright, nine page new introduction by Bradbury. This edition also includes four stories, contemporary to the rest of the contents but not in the original edition, archival material and an afterword by Clive Barker. Wrap around dust jacket is an original painting by Bradbury. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-34. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #254. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-42.
DARK CARNIVAL.
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." Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-34. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #254. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-42.
DARK CARNIVAL.
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.". Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-34. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #254. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-42.
DARK CARNIVAL.
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." Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-34. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #254. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-42.
FAHRENHEIT 451.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1953]. Octavo, red boards, front and spine panels stamped in yellow. First edition. The hardbound trade issue. (Currey binding D [no priority]). Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-31. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 8.
FAHRENHEIT 451.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1953]. Octavo, red boards, front and spine panels stamped in yellow. First edition. The hardbound trade issue. (Currey binding D [no priority]). Expansion of the novella "The Fireman" published in 1951. "...hostility to books and ideas was generated by ordinary people, not simply imposed upon them by government." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-31. This was filmed in 1966 by François Truffaut with Oskar Werner and Julie Christie. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels #8.
THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1953. Octavo, 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. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-62. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 258.
THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1953. Octavo, 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. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-62. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 258.
THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1953. Octavo, boards. First edition. A presentation copy with a fine inscription by Bradbury dated the month of publication: For Stan --- / With my best / wishes; and hopes / for our upcoming / book -- / best from / Ray Bradbury / March, 1953." "Stan" is almost certainly Stanley Kauffmann, his editor at Ballantine Books, and the "upcoming" book is FAHRENHEIT 451, published by Ballantine in October 1953. Collects twenty-two stories including "The Fog Horn," "The Pedestrian," and "A Sound of Thunder." Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-62. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 258.
LONG AFTER MIDNIGHT.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. Octavo, quarter cloth with boards. First edition. Collection of 22 stories, several original to this collection and several with variant titles from original publications. Nominated for 1977 World Fantasy Award for best collection.
THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collection of closely linked stories about the exploration and colonization of the planet Mars. A masterpiece of 20th Century science fiction. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-32. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #255. Pringle: Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels #3.
THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collection of linked stories about the exploration and colonization of the planet Mars. A masterpiece of twentieth-century science fiction. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-154. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #255. Pringle: Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels #3.
A MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1959. Octavo, illustrated by Joseph Mugniani, boards. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Bradbury on the front free end paper and dated in the year of publication. 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.
A MEMORY OF MURDER.
[New York]: A Dell Book, [1984.]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Dell 15559. Paperback original. Collects fifteen stories first published in the 1940s in the detective and horror pulps.
THE OCTOBER COUNTRY.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1955]. Octavo, illustrations by Joe Mugnaini, original red cloth, lettered in black. First edition. Currey binding 'B', second state-BB logo printed corrected at base of spine. This title reprints the contents of Dark Carnival, most with revisions and includes four stories collected for the first time. 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 'B', first state, logo inverted at base of spine. This title reprints the contents of Dark Carnival, most with revisions and it also includes four stories collected here for the first time. 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 'B', first state, logo inverted at base of spine. This title reprints the contents of Dark Carnival, most with revisions and it also includes four stories collected here for the first time. See Barron: Horror Literature 3-34. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #259.
"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.
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.