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Martian Chronicles
by BRADBURY Ray
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
1950. First Edition . Signed. BRADBURY, Ray. The Martian Chronicles. Garden City: Doubleday, 1950. Octavo, original light green cloth, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $6800.First edition of this scarce science fiction classic, Bradbury’s second book, signed by him and dated October 21, 1980.Bradbury's first novel and second book, ""which could be regarded as an episodic novel, made Bradbury's reputation… Its closely interwoven stories, linked by recurrent images and themes, tell of the repeated attempts by humans to colonize Mars… All the Bradbury themes that were later to be repeated find their earliest shapes here"" (Clute & Nicholls, 151). ""This was the book that established Bradbury's reputation… He put far more emphasis on style and mood than he did on technical detail or scientific plausibility… His reward was a stunning popular and critical success"" (Pringle, Science Fiction 100 3). Cloth lightly toned at spine. Shallow wear to head of dust jacket spine, rubbing to rear panel, foxing to flaps, front panel bright and clean. A near-fine signed copy. Scarce.
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
- Bauman Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 126746
- Title
- Martian Chronicles
- Author
- BRADBURY Ray
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Date Published
- 1950
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- Clamshell Box
- A protective box designed for storing and preserving a bound book or loose sheets. A clamshell box is hinged on one side, with...
- Rubbing
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- Octavo
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Flap(s)
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- Jacket
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