Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
First Printing of the Simon and Schuster Edition. This is Bradburry's classic novel. Issued because of a renewed interest in the book, as a consequence of the movie of the same name that came out the previous year. Not the commonly found book club edition. Dystopian novel about the destruction of books by fire and the threat to the dissemination of ideas that follows. Rare in this edition.
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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- Seller
- BooksCardsNBikes (CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 10
- Title
- Fahrenheit 451
- Author
- Ray Bradbury
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition Thus First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1967
- Pages
- 192
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fiction, Literature, Poetry
- Bookseller catalogs
- 20th Century - Modern Books;
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- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...