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Fahrenheit 451 (The Lettered Presentation Copy)

Fahrenheit 451 (The Lettered Presentation Copy)

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Fahrenheit 451 (The Lettered Presentation Copy)

by Ray Bradbury

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  • near fine
  • Hardcover
  • Signed
  • first
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About This Item

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1982. Hardcover. Near Fine. Joseph Mugnaini. One of the scarcest of all copies within the limitation of the 2,000 copies signed by both Ray Bradbury and the illustrator Joe Mugnaini. This is a "lettered" copy (letter 'G') and, just below the signatures at the limitation, states in blindstamp: "ONE OF 26 PRESENTATION COPIES, OUT OF SERIES". One can certainly assume that almost all of these Presentation copies were given to close friends and family of Bradbury, Mugnaini and the publisher, and that very few of these "lettered" copies reached the market. This is a very sharp copy to boot. Clean and easily Near Fine in its aluminum boards, with both the cautionary slip ("Fragile: This Book Is Bound in Aluminum -- Sensitive to the touch") and the Monthly Letter of the Limited Editions Club laid-in. Quarto, nicely illustrated thuout by Mugnaini. Also includes a handsome, very sturdy example of the matching aluminum slipcase, with just a touch of very faint rubbing at the panels.

Synopsis

Fahrenheit 451 (Ballantine Books, 1953) by Ray Bradbury is a dystopian novel that presents a future American society in which the masses are hedonistic and critical thought through reading is outlawed. Written in the early years of the Cold War, the novel is a critique of what Bradbury saw as issues in American society of the era. Bradbury combined two of his early short stories, "The Pedestrian" and  "Bright Phoenix," into The Fireman, a novella published in the February 1951 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction. Bradbury's publisher at Ballantine Books then suggested that he expand the work to make into a novel—Fahrenheit 451.

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Bookseller
Appledore Books, ABAA US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
16267
Title
Fahrenheit 451 (The Lettered Presentation Copy)
Author
Ray Bradbury
Illustrator
Joseph Mugnaini
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine
Quantity Available
1
Publisher
The Limited Editions Club
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1982
Keywords
rare science fiction, rare Limited Editions Club, rare Ray Bradbury, rare editions of Fahrenheit 451
Bookseller catalogs
Science Fiction;

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