The Martian Chronicles
by Bradbury, Ray (1920-2012)
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Bound in pale green cloth over boards with burgundy spine titles. Hint of browning to spin
- Seller
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Annapolis, Maryland, United States
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Synopsis
The Martian Chronicles is a 1950 science fiction short story collection by Ray Bradbury that chronicles the colonization of Mars by humans fleeing from a troubled and eventually atomically devastated Earth, and the conflict between aboriginal Martians and the new colonists. The book lies somewhere between a short story collection and an episodic novel, containing stories Bradbury originally published in the late 1940s in science fiction magazines.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1489
- Title
- The Martian Chronicles
- Author
- Bradbury, Ray (1920-2012)
- Format/Binding
- Full cloth. Octavo. 222 pages
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Bound in pale green cloth over boards with burgundy spine titles. Hint of browning to spin
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1950
- Keywords
- first edition, ray bradbury, mars, martian, planetary colonization, science fiction, book collecting
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction & Literature;
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Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Bumps
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- Jacket
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- Fine
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
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