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Fahrenheit 451 Mass market paperback - 1976
by Ray Bradbury
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- Title Fahrenheit 451
- Author Ray Bradbury
- Binding Mass Market Paperback
- Edition Later Printing
- Condition Used - Good
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Random House Publishing Group, New York
- Date 1976
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0345250273I3N00
- ISBN 9780345250278 / 0345250273
- Weight 0.19 lbs (0.09 kg)
- Reading level 890
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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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.
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.
First line
It was a pleasure to burn.
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).