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THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES
by RAY BRADBURY
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good /Good
- Seller
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THETFORD, Norfolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK, USA: DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY. Ex-school library book. Copyright dated to 1958, but possibly a later printing(entered library service in 1971). The latest printing with this DJ art is 1962. Clear plastic covers over dust jacket. Coding label on DJ spine.Small split/area of damage on bottom edge of DJ, front board and DJ cover, near spine. Jacket is not price clipped(price $4.95) Library card/card pocket and issuing form attached to back endpaper. Numbers/fractions written on back pastedown(partly erased). Tanned and slightly creased pages. Discarded stamp on top edges of book's pages. Library stamp on title page. Red boards. Early edition of Ray Bradbury's classic collection of science fiction/fantasy short stories set on Mars(the book was first published in 1950). Prefatory Note(foreword) by Clifton Fadiman. Location: NBK4 Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall . Good. Hardcover. REPRINT.. 1958.
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
- TARPAULIN BOOKS AND COMICS
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015471
- Title
- THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES
- Author
- RAY BRADBURY
- Illustrator
- ROBERT WATSON(JACKET ART)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- REPRINT.
- Publisher
- DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY
- Place of Publication
- GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK, USA
- Date Published
- 1958
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About the Seller
TARPAULIN BOOKS AND COMICS
Biblio member since 2005
THETFORD, Norfolk
About TARPAULIN BOOKS AND COMICS
I am a bookseller of predominantly used(second hand) books. I specialise in Science Fiction, Fantasy, Graphic Novels, British and American comics, TV and Film books and magazines. I also sell other varieties of fiction and non-fiction. Including historical novels, poetry, history books, native american history, new age, philosophy, motivational books, classics.
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