The Martian Chronicles
by BRADBURY, Ray
- Used
- first
- Condition
- very good(+)/near fine
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, 1950. First. hardcover. very good(+)/near fine. 8vo, pale green cloth, spine & edges lightly sunned under the dust wrapper, as is typical of this book; very faint staining on the front board; bright jacket with the original $2.50 price. New York: Doubleday, 1950. First edition.<br/><br/> A collectible copy of Bradbury's first major work and a science fiction landmark.<br/><br/>
Synopsis
The Martian Chronicles is a 1950 science fiction short story collection by Ray Bradbury that chronicles the colonization of Mars by humans fleeing from a troubled and eventually atomically devastated Earth, and the conflict between aboriginal Martians and the new colonists. The book lies somewhere between a short story collection and an episodic novel, containing stories Bradbury originally published in the late 1940s in science fiction magazines.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Argosy Book Store
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 287559
- Title
- The Martian Chronicles
- Author
- BRADBURY, Ray
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - very good(+)
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1950
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About the Seller
Argosy Book Store
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New York, New York
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- First Edition
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- Jacket
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