THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed on the title page by Bradbury. Bradbury's second and most famous book, a collection of closely linked stories about the exploration and colonization of Mars. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-154. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 255. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 3. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1348-52. Some of the usual tanning to spine panel, a fine copy in very good dust jacket (priced $2.50 on the front flap) with rubbing along folds, shallow loss at left and right corners of spine ends and three corner tips, and 20 mm closed tear along top rear flap fold. An unrestored jacket which presents well overall. (#114532).
Price: $3,500.00
First edition so stated on copyright page.