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BRADBURY, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1982.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Illustrated by Joseph Mugnaini. Frontispiece is a full-page original lithograph; 3 double- page color plates. 152pp. Tall 8vo, printed aluminum boards, publisher's silver boards slipcase. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1982. Fine One of 2000 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator and the author, who has written a new introduction for this book.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. Limited Editions Club New York 1982, 1982.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Illustrated with three double-fold illustrations and one full-page lithograph by Joseph Mugnaini Number 1569 of 2000 numbered copies, signed by BOTH the author Ray Bradbury and the illustrator. Bound in aluminum-covered boards stamped black. With original Monthly Letter prospectus. Book is in near fine condition with light rubbing along one edge. In original slipcase in near fine condition. One of the LEC most imaginative bindings.
Seller: Different Drummer Books, Niantic, CT, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. The Limited Editions Club, 1982.
Price: US$749.98 + shipping
Description: A few minor scratches and pressure; Beautiful signed, limited aluminum-bound copy illustrated with 4 lithographs from Joseph Mugnaini. Limited Editions Club newsletter & "fragile" card laid in. Signed by Bradbury and Mugnaini, #662. ; quarto; 152 pages; Signed by Author & Illustrator Very Good indentations on aluminum cover. Spine ends rubbed. Some shelfwear to slipcase.
Seller: Curious Book Shop, East Lansing, MI, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. FAHRENHEIT 451. The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1982.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Large octavo, aluminum foil over boards. One of 2000 numbered copies signed by Bradbury and artist Joseph Mugnaini. New foreword and afterword by Bradbury. A short novel expanded from the novella "The Fireman" published in 1951. "While the jet bombers boom overhead and another nuclear war threatens, Americans live a mindless life in a society where everyone is encouraged to lose himself in such distractions as four-wall television, hearing-aid radios, high-speed travel, and group sports. Life is reduced to the paste-pudding norm of a mass audience, for it serves the purpose of the government to keep people from thinking . The gadget are, of course, marvelous and everywhere, while the greatest enemies of the status quo are books, which, when they are occasionally discovered, are burned by firemen who are, in this fireproof age, no longer needed to put out fires, but to set them ." - Hillegas, The Future as Nightmare, pp. 158-9. "In a totalitarian state, books are burned and private thought or action is criminal." - Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 159. Filmed in 1966 by Francois Truffaut. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-153. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 8. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 749-55. A fine copy, no jacket as issued in slipcase with rubs to the bottom edge. Monthly club newsletter laid in. (Note: heavy oversized volume, additional postage may be required). (31446)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Xx, 152 Pp. Aluminum Covered Boards. #139 Of 2000 Copies Of This Limited Edition Signed By Bradbury And Mugnaini, With Bradbury's Newer1979 Afterword, And His New 1982 Foreword To This Edition. In Slipcase As Issued. Book With Small Rub At Upper Front Corner Of Spine, A Few Shallow Indentation Lines/Scratches Which Do Not Penetrate Surface; Slight Creasing At Spine Edges, And A Few Small Shallow Bumps At Edges. Slipcase With Slight Usage, Wear At Corners Of Open End.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1982.
Price: US$769.19 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited edition of 2,000 of which this is number 1816. Signed by the author and illustrator to the limitation page. Original binding of silver paper red and black lettering to spine, red, black and white lettering to upper cover, black decoration to upper cover. All page edges silver gilt. Black endpapers. One full page and three folding illustrations. The Monthly Letter of the Limited Editions Club loosely inserted to front. The book is in very good condition in very good condition covers, which are rubbed to the spine with small scratches to the lower cover. Slipcase in very good condition but worn to edges with small loss and slightly dusty. 1209
Seller: Jeremy's Books, Andover, HAMPS, United Kingdom
BRADBURY, Ray.. Fahrenheit 451.. Limited Editions Club, New York., 1982.
Price: US$833.29 + shipping
Description: First edition thus. New introduction by the author. Royal octavo. pp xx, 152. Original colour lithograph and three fold-out colour plates by Joseph Mugnaini. Full aluminium paper covers by Robert A. Burlen, Hingham, Massachusetts. Silver edges. Typography by Christopher Ausopchuk, set in Monotype Van Dijck and in News Gothic at Mackenzie-Harris and printed by letterpress at Lawton Kennedy, San Francisco. With publisher's newsletter loosely inserted.One of 2000 numbered copies signed by the author and the artist.Very small bumps to edges of covers, otherwise fine in near-fine matching slipcase.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1982.
Price: US$1150.00 + shipping
Description: 182 pages. 28 x 16 cm. With a new introduction by the author. Illustrated with oil paintings by Joseph Mugnaini, a four color lithograph frontispiece and three pullout triptychs, the lithograph from zinc plates on the illustrations drawn by Mugnaini. Book printed by letterpress on a Heidelberg press by Lawton Kennedy, San Francisco on acid-free paper. Limited edition, copy 1267 of 2000 signed by Bradbury and Mugnaini. The heavy aluminum foil cover can resist heat of 451 degrees, the temperature at which paper catches fire. Laid-in the LEC Monthly Letter. NEWMAN & WICHE 527. LEC small insert read "Fragile This Book is Bound in Aluminum Sensitive to the touch." Our copy is pristine, the only fault is slight rubbing to slipcase at head and foot. Full aluminum silver foil silkscreened in black, white and scarlet. Fine in near fine silver slipcase
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
BRADBURY, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. The Limited Edition's Club, 1982.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 152 pp. 11" x 7.25" 1982 The Limited Edition's Club This copy, number 1189 signed by the author and the illustrator Illustrated by Joseph Mugnaini In silver slipcase Original lithograph Burning Woman page XV
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1982.
Price: US$1350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: VG+-NF condition. 1st thus, this copy #529 of a limited print run of 2000. One of the final productions of the main LEC run from 1929-1985, and one of the most boldly iconic, with aluminum foil covers and spine over silver boards, slyly referring to the novel's theme, that of "firemen" like the protagonist Guy Montag, tasked with burning the last remaining libraries of books hidden in the world. The text block is also tinted in silver. With Joe Mugnaini's haunting illustrations, both full-page and fold-out. The foil on the book's text edges have a few shallow indentations, and there are two faint long ones on the back cover, as well as a small faint dust stain on the top edge near the spine, but otherwise the books is very clean and bright, and the text is pristine. With a new foreword by Bradbury specifically for this edition, as well as Bradbury's 1979 afterword, and signed by both Bradbury and Mugnaini. A boldly imagined and beautiful edition.
Seller: Aesthete's Eye Books, West Jordan, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: One of the scarcest of all copies within the limitation of the 2,000 copies signed by both Ray Bradbury and the illustrator Joe Mugnaini. This is a "lettered" copy (letter 'G') and, just below the signatures at the limitation, states in blindstamp: "ONE OF 26 PRESENTATION COPIES, OUT OF SERIES". One can certainly assume that almost all of these Presentation copies were given to close friends and family of Bradbury, Mugnaini and the publisher, and that very few of these "lettered" copies reached the market. This is a very sharp copy to boot. Clean and easily Near Fine in its aluminum boards, with both the cautionary slip ("Fragile: This Book Is Bound in Aluminum -- Sensitive to the touch") and the Monthly Letter of the Limited Editions Club laid-in. Quarto, nicely illustrated thuout by Mugnaini. Also includes a handsome, very sturdy example of the matching aluminum slipcase, with just a touch of very faint rubbing at the panels.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451. The Limited Editions Club, 1982.
Price: US$9200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: New York. The Limited Editions Club, 1982. Illustrated by Joseph Magnaini. One of 2000 copies signed by the author and the illustrator. Asbestos Binding. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition, signed by author on colophon. [viii], 199, (3) pp. Johns-Manville Quinterra asbestos-like binding, lettered in red. Issued without a dust jacket. The classic dystopian, anti-censorship novel, plus two short stories "The Playground" and "The Rock Cried Out." A sought-after signed limited edition extremely uncommon in such great condition. This is copy N.5. Two ex libris. A very fine copy with slipcase. Extremely rare and sought-after edition of this masterpiece of dystopian literature.
Seller: Lascar Publishing Ltd., Hong Kong, Hong Kong