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Fahrenheit 451
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Fahrenheit 451 Paperback - 1993

by BRADBURY RAY

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  • Title Fahrenheit 451
  • Author BRADBURY RAY
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New Ed
  • Condition UsedVeryGood
  • Pages 227
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Flamingo, London, United Kingdom
  • Date August 16, 1993
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 52GZZZ021I7L_ns
  • ISBN 9780006546061 / 0006546064
  • Weight 0.51 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 5.08 x 7.79 x 0.41 in (12.90 x 19.79 x 1.04 cm)
  • Reading level 890
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About this book

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.

Summary

"The short novel presents a future American society in which the masses are hedonistic and critical thought through reading is outlawed. The central character, Guy Montag, is employed as a "fireman" (which, in this future, means "bookburner"). The number "451" refers to the temperature at which book paper combusts." - [*Wikipedia*][1] [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451

First Edition Identification

Fahrenheit 451 was first published as a novel by Ballantine Books in New York in 1953. First edition copies signed by Bradbury sell for $15,000-$18,000. A limited-edition was released by the publisher in late 1953 of 200 signed copies that were bound in asbestos (to make them fireproof). 

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