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Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles, 1st ed.

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Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles, 1st ed.
<B>Ray Bradbury</B></I>. <B><I>The Martian Chronicles</B></I></B></I>. Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1950. <BR>First edition. Twelvemo. 222 pages.<BR><BR>Tan cloth over boards with black lettering on spine. Minor fading on binding. The dust jacket with minor wear at head and foot of spine. Overall fine condition.<BR><BR>Ray Bradbury's stature as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century began with <I>The Martian Chronicles</B></I>, compiled from stories originally published in popular science-fiction magazines between 1946-49. Viewed as both a short-story collection and a novel, this saga of the colonization of an inhabited Mars by fleeing Earthlings has been called "a book of stories pretending to be a novel" by Bradbury himself. This fine copy of the hard-to-find first edition is essential for the science-fiction collector. <I>From the Robert and Diane Yaspan Collection.</B></I><BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Books & Catalogs (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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