Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957. Octavo. cloth. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Bradbury to a well known fan on the front free end paper with a drawing of a Dandelion. 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].

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. Octavo, full black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, all edges gilt, gray end papers. First edition. One 70 copies specially bound for Bradbury's use. Inscribed, dated and signed by Bradbury to a well known fan on the front free end paper (stating 1/70). Mystery novel set in Venice, CA in 1949. "...a loving tribute to the hard-boiled detective genre of Hammett and Chandler and a gently nostalgic evocation of a time and place." - from the front flap.

New York: Ballantine Books, [1953]. Octavo, white asbestos boards. First edition. One of 200 numbered copies signed by Bradbury and bound in Johns-Manville Quinterra, an asbestos material. This is copy number 50. Laid in are labels signed and inscribed by Bradbury to a well known fan. 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-153. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 8. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 749-55].

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Review copy. Label signed by Bradbury affixed to the front free end paper. Formerly Judy-Lynn Benjamin's copy (later Judy-Lynn Del Rey) with her bookplated affixed to the front free end paper. Collection of eighteen stories. "Eighteen stories, Bradbury's first collection in five years. He's a sorcerer who stretches psychological infinities like no one else. .. Ray Bradbury can be funny, sad, poetic and terrifying . . . sometimes simultaneously . . . he lights up the crackle of doom in the Rice Crispies." Kirkus review 1 October 1969. At the time of the publication of this book Ms. Benjamin was managing editor of Galaxy magazine.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951. Octavo, cloth. First edition. This copy inscribed and signed to Ron [Goulart] on the front free end paper, dated 1952. Collects eighteen stories plus prologue and epilogue, including "The Velt," "Kaleidoscope," "The Long Rain," and "Zero Hour." [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-63. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 256. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 1008-13].

Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1980. Octavo, cloth back marbled boards. First edition. The "deluxe edition" which was issued in a 100 copy numbered edition, this one of an unknown number of copies designated presentation copy, signed by Bradbury, William F. Nolan (introduction) and Joseph Mugnaini (artist). Additionally inscribed and signed by Bradbury on the rear free end paper, also inscribed by dedicatee, Donn Albright, both inscriptions to a well know fan. Introduction by William F. Nolan and an afterword by Ray Bradbury. First publication of "The Last Circus" and first book publication of "The Electrocution," latter first published in the August 1946 issue of The Californian under the pen name William Elliott.

Northridge, California: Lord John Press, 1982. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The "deluxe" issue which was issued in a 100 copy numbered edition signed by Bradbury and artist Joe Mugnaini, this copy is an unknown number designated presentation copy. This copy additional inscribed and signed by Bradbury on the front free end paper to a well known fan. "The Love Affair" was originally written for THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES, but is first published here.

Avon, CT: The Limited Editions Club, 1974. Large octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 2000 numbered copies signed by Bradbury and artist Joseph Mugnaini. Introduction by Martin Gardner. Collection of closely linked stories about the exploration and colonization of the planet Mars. A masterpiece of 20th Century science fiction. [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].