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The Martian Chronicles
by Bradbury, Ray
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very good/very good
- Seller
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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1950. First Edition, Second Printing. Cloth. Very good/very good. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, in the first state dust jacket.. Octavo, 222pp. In the second issue blue cloth with title in red on spine. Solid text block, foxing along edges, toning to endpapers, faint sunning to spine, a very good example. In the first state dust jacket, $2.50 retail price on front flap, light wear to spine, faint foxing to rear panel. A vibrant example of one of Bradbury's most popular works. Considered an "undeniable classic" for science fiction fans. (Pringle, page 197) (Currey, page 56).
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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- Bookseller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13251
- Title
- The Martian Chronicles
- Author
- Bradbury, Ray
- Illustrator
- The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, in the first state dust jacket.
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, Second Printing
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1950
- Keywords
- signed book Ray Bradbury, signed book Robert Bloch, first edition Ray Bradbury, first edition Fahrenheit 451, signed Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, first edition Something Wicked this way comes, Dark Carn
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- 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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
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