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Titles to Look Out For:
[in ascending order of date of publication (year) with each entry dated to earliest edition. Each listing includes later editions and printings]
1951. The Illustrated Man (short stories)
1957. Dandelion Wine
1980. The Martian Chronicles
1990. A Graveyard for Lunatics

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Bradbury, Ray. 'The Illustrated Man' published in 1963 in Great Britain in paperback, 251pp, no ISBN. Condition: acceptable - there are rips to the hinge between spine & covers at the top and bottom, and the cover edges are rubbed and creased, with surface loss to the top left corner of the front cover. Price: £3.00, not including post and packing
1963, Corgi, pbk

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  • The Illustrated Man [top]
    First published in 1951 in the United States in hardback with dustjacket by Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, in 1951, pp. 251, size: 8vo (5" X 7 3/4")
    First published in 1952 in Great Britain in hardback with dustjacket by Rupert Hart-Davis, pp. 192.
    Bantam edition published in 1952 in paperback
    Corgi edition published in 1955 and 1960 in paperback
    Corgi edition reprinted in 1963 in Great Britain in paperback, pp.186

Storyline: A classic collection of stories - all told on the skin of a man - from the author of Fahrenheit 451. If El Greco had painted miniatures in his prime, no bigger than your hand, infinitely detailed, with his sulphurous colour and exquisite human anatomy, perhaps he might have used this man's body for his art. . .Yet the Illustrated Man has tried to burn the illustrations off. He's tried sandpaper, acid, and a knife. Because, as the sun sets, the pictures glow like charcoals, like scattered gems. They quiver and come to life. Tiny pink hands gesture, tiny mouths flicker as the figures enact their stories - voices rise, small and muted, predicting the future. Here are sixteen tales: sixteen illustrations. . .the seventeenth is your own future told on the skin of the Illustrated Man

Contents:
Prologue: The Illustrated Man
The Veldt
Kaleidoscope
The Other Foot
The Highway
The Man
The Long Rain
The Rocket Man
The Fire Balloons
The Last Night of the World
The Exiles
No Particular Night or Morning
The Fox and the Forest
The Visitor
The Concrete Mixer
Marionettes, Inc.
The City
The Zero Hour
The Roc

Bradbury, Ray. 'Dandelion Wine', published in 1969 in Great Britain in paperback by Corgi, 184pp, ISBN 0552082767. Sorry, sold out, but click image to access a prebuilt search for this title on Amazon UK
1969, Corgi Books, pbk
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  • Dandelion Wine [top]
    First published in 1957 in Great Britain in hardback with dustjacket by Rupert Hart-Davis
    Published in 1965 in Great Britain in paperback by Corgi
    Published in 1969 in Great Britain in paperback by Corgi, 184pp, ISBN 0552082767

Storyline: "In the strange world of Green Town, Illinois, there was a junkman who saved lives; a pair of shoes that could make you run as fast as a deer; a human time machine; a wax witch that could tell real fortunes; a man who almost wrecked happiness by building a happiness machine. And there was a twelve-year-old boy named Douglas Spaulding, who found himself very much at home in this extraordinary world...

Bradbury, Ray. 'The Martian Chronicles' published in 1980 by Granada Publishing, in hardback, 232pp, with dustjacket. Sorry, sold out, but click image to access a prebuilt search for this title on Amazon UK
1980, Granada Publishing
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  • The Martian Chronicles [top]
    First published in 1951 in Great Britain as 'The Silver Locusts' by Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd
    Second impression printed in 1961
    Third impression printed in 1965
    Fourth impression printed in 1969
    Fifth impression printed in 1971
    Sixth impression printed in 1974 by Hart-Davis; MacGibbon
    Seventh impression printed in 1980 by Granada Publishing as 'The Martian Chronicles', hardback, 232pp, ISBN 0246111461 . Front jacket illustration by Peter Goodfellow and portrait of the author by Don Bachardy (on rear dj flap)

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Storyline: The Past Holds The Truth! The Hollywood of the 1950s is stuck in the nostalgia of its brilliant past, with little thought for the future. Our Hero, naive and bright-eyed, is a scriptwriter, movie buff and star-worshipper who longs to relive the Golden Age of Film. One cold Halloween, he gets his chance when he receives an anonymous note inviting him to the Green Glades Cemetery where he is promised a great revelation. This heralds the start of a fantastic death-defying trip into the past - and the truth

Bradbury, Ray. 'A Graveyard for Lunatics', published in 1991 in Great Britain by Grafton in paperback, 285pp, ISBN 0586211268. Condition: Good, but worn on the cover edges and corners and with foxing to internal pages. Price: £2.50, not including post and packing (which is Amazon UK's standard charge of £2.80 for UK buyers)
1991, Grafton, pbk
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  • A Graveyard for Lunatics [top]
    First published in 1990 in Great Britain by Grafton, in hardback with dustjacket, 288pp, ISBN 9780246137449. Those customers wishing to buy the true first edition should invest in the Grafton copy because it was issued prior to the edition in the United States
    Published in 1991 in Great Britain by Grafton in paperback, 285pp, ISBN 0586211268

About this book / synopsis: The Past Holds The Truth! The Hollywood of the 1950s is stuck in the nostalgia of its brilliant past, with little thought for the future. Our Hero, naive and bright-eyed, is a scriptwriter, movie buff and star-worshipper who longs to relive the Golden Age of Film. One cold Halloween, he gets his chance when he receives an anonymous note inviting him to the Green Glades Cemetery where he is promised a great revelation. This heralds the start of a fantastic death-defying trip into the past - and the truth...

 

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