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BRADBURY, Ray. THE ILLUSTRATED MAN. Doubleday & Co., Garden City , Ny, 1951.
Price: US$9.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Black textured paper-wrapped binding with light blue print on spine. Red headedge tint. Top end of spine has colored material chipped away. Has a small red bleed stain at top of rear hinge. Sound and unmarked. 253 pages. . Dust jacket is red and black with beige print on front cover and spine and has a pictorial of a man on the front. Author's picture is on back cover.Material missing at spine ends and wear at corner tips. In mylar and no pricing present
Seller: Falls Bookstore, Readsboro, VT, U.S.A.
BRADBURY, Ray. THE ILLUSTRATED MAN. Doubleday & Company, Garden City , Ny, 1951.
Price: US$11.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Black textured paper binding with grey print on spine . Very sound. Ex-Library. Has green ink stamp , "Science -Fiction & Fantasy" on front fltleaf. This the only library mark. Also previous owner name on page. Otherwise unmarked 253 pages. Dust Jacket has red background pictorial of tattoord man and white print on front panel. In mylar and no price present. Book Club . Jacket has heavy wear around edges. Red on front is rubbed.
Seller: Falls Bookstore, Readsboro, VT, U.S.A.
Ray Bradbury. The Illustrated Man. Doubleday and Company, Inc., Garden City, 1951.
Price: US$19.40 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio. Books shipped within 24 hours. Family owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio. Hardcover of Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man, one of his classics; First Book Club Edition (1951, Doubleday). No dust jacket. Binding tight and durable. No marks noted in text. Very good copy overall. Decorative deckled page edges.
Seller: BookMarx Bookstore, Steubenville, OH, U.S.A.
Ray Bradbury. The Illustrated Man. Doubleday, 1951.
Price: US$22.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: No marks. No wear. Book Club edition.
Seller: FITZ BOOKS AND WAFFLES, Buffalo, NY, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. The Illustrated Man. Doubleday, 1951.
Price: US$22.00 + shipping
Description: Book Club Edition. Bookplate front free endpaper (Boris Vallejo illustration) , fine in near fine dust jacket with several creases inside front flap and shallow chips spine ends
Seller: Herland Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. The Illustrated Man. Doubleday & Company, 1951.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A clean Book Club hardcover in a jacket. Prior owner's name inked on front flyleaf. 252pp. Dust jacket is lightly rubbed and has shallow surface scuffing to front panel. Offered now in a new mylar cover. Size: 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall
Seller: Turn-The-Page Books, Skyway, WA, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. The Illustrated Man. Doubleday, NY, 1951.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Slight spine lean, some foxing to edges of textblock, else a very good hardback in a tanned and lightly rubbed jacket.
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller ABAA, Decatur, GA, U.S.A.
Ray Bradbury. The Illustrated Man. Doubleday & Company, Inc., New York, 1951.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Book condition is fair. Head leaves lightly foxed. Tail spine edge rubbed. Corners slightly bent. Previous owners name on front page. Dust jacket condition is poor. Head front and back edges chipped with 1 1/2" piece missing on spine. Tail spine chipped with 1" tear. Front fore edge rubbed with tear. Corners rubbed with pieces missing. 253 pages. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Burm Booksellers, Beckley, WV, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. The Illustrated Man. Doubleday & Co., Garden City, NY, 1951.
Price: US$28.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 254 pages.
Seller: Pistil Books Online, IOBA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. The Illustrated Man. Doubleday and Co., New York, NY, U.S.A., 1951.
Price: US$29.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Black boards with silver titling. In fine condition wit ha prev. owners bookplate. No DJ. Unable to tell the edition or if it is a book club.
Seller: The Book Lovers, Philo, CA, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. The Illustrated Man. Doubleday, 1951.
Price: US$33.44 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good condition with wear and markings.
Seller: GridFreed, North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
BRADBURY, Ray.. The Illustrated Man.. Doubleday & Company,, Garden City:, 1951.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A collection of stories. The basis for the 1969 film. Vintage book club edition. Near fine in a very good or better (light age toning along the spine) dust jacket. Dust jacket design by Dean Ellis. ; 253 pages
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. The Illustrated Man. Doubleday, New York, 1951.
Price: US$98.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Inch edge tear with creases, almost a chip, jacket front. Inch rough tear with tiny chip jacket back. Pages clean. Binding good.
Seller: SuzyQBooks, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Ray Bradbury. The Illustrated Man. Doubleday & Company Inc., 1951.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st edition stated on the copyright page. Hardbound, no dust jacket. Boards show moderate soiling, otherwise very good.
Seller: Black Cat Books, Shelter Island, NY, U.S.A.
Ray Bradbury. The Illustrated Man. Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury was published by Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, in 1951. This rebound ex-library, 5" X 7 3/4", 251-page, First Edition offering is in G+ condition. There is light, spotty foxing observed on some pages, the body of which shows some quite modest yellowing. Pages 243-244 were previously irregularly, horizontally, practically-all-the-way-across torn, about 3/4 of the way down from top(this tear was already clear taped/repaired previously). A similar horizontal, irregular tear exists on pages 241-242, as well, which I thought best to neatly clear tape to stabilize. Some of the requisite library markings are present, as might be expected. At the time of publication of The Illustrated Man, Bradbury, now an American literary icon, had produced two previous works, Dark Carnival and the now-legendary The Martian Chronicles. The Illustrated Man is the eccentric, haunting tale of a young man's encounter, beginning on a late Wisconsin afternoon, and continuing on into the early morning dark, with a mysterious, stocky, somewhat unkempt, considerably older man who, the young man soon learns, has had his entire covering of skin tattooed. The wicked young-old witch's sign had advertised "Skin Illustration", and, in 1900, at the age of twenty, the old man had decided to have it done in hopes of being able to find steady work as a freak attraction in various roving carnivals. Turns out, having his body painted was an ongoing curse, for the pictures/scenes the witch had seared onto him were magical, predictors of some 18 future events. Indeed, the old man's lone goal in life, he informs the young man, is to find, and kill, the wicked woman whose accursed art tortures his sleep-deprived body. I'll say no more of this remarkable, dark story, except to point out that it is really a collection of 18 short stories, all of them witnessed/observed by the younger man, as the youth discovers that the various tattoos have the power to set themselves in motion, and their respective stories all unfold to their inevitable conclusions. If you do not know the story, Reader, you might wish to see what transpires. Thanks very much!!
Seller: Ebeth & Abayjay Books, Lima, OH, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray.. The Illustrated Man.. Doubleday & Co., Inc, Garden City, 1951.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Later State Book Club Issue, with gutter code "40 K" on page 251. A Fine copy in textured black paper covered boards, in a Fine red, black and grey dustwrapper, with front cover illustration of tattooed man sitting on a platform, and photo of Bradbury riding a bike on rear panel. An attractive copy of the dustwrapper, with mildest rubbing to front red panel. Topstain rich ruby red. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked. Q16307
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. The Illustrated Man. Doubleday, 1951.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Slightly smaller book, light brown cloth, dark brown lettering and small illustration of book and rocket on spine, 251 browned but supple pages plus an epilogue. DJ beneath mylar has red background to front and spine with yellow figure of man filled with tiny black illustrations by Butchkes, praise on back from Christopher Isherwood, Anthony Boucher, August Derleth and others. DJ has tiny tear at top front tip, slight wear to front tips, browned tape at spine top edge, spine very slightly faded to pink, tiny tears and nicks with slight wear at spine bottom edge, white back very slightly browned and badly stained, tiny tear and crease at top back edge. Poor DJ/Fine book.
Seller: Callaghan Books South, New Port Richey, FL, U.S.A.
RAY BRADBURY. The Illustrated Man. Doubleday, New York, 1951, 1951.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: PHOTOS EMAILED UPON REQUEST
Seller: BooksByLisa, Highland Park, IL, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. The Illustrated Man. Doubleday and Company, 1951.
Price: US$288.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Illustrated Man Author: Ray Bradbury Publication: Doubleday and Company, New York, New York Edition: BCE Binding: Hardcover Condition: A Fine copy in a Fine mylar wrapped dustjacket with slipcase in Fine condition Description: THIS CLASSIC 1951 BOOK IS WRITTEN BY PULITZER PRIZE AND EMMY AWARD WINNING AUTHOR RAY BRADBURY! BCE in Very Good condition with slight tilt to binding in a Very Good mylar wrapped dustjacket with one stain and one spot with partial missing paper on front (see photos). From the extensive Ray Bradbury Collection at Allens Rare Books. Beautifully illustrated dustjacket art by Phil Parks. 252pp. Store Description Welcome to Allens Rare Books. Each book in our inventory has been personally inspected, exhaustively described, and photographed to meet the standards of the discerning collector. We encourage prospective customers to contact us with any questions. Terms of Sale We accept all major credit cards via the AbeBooks Shopping Cart. Customers have 30 days to return a purchased volume(s) which do not meet their original description or are otherwise unsatisfactory. We are proud to offer free shipping on all standard (octavo) sized volumes. Shipping Shipping costs are based on books weighing 2.2 lbs. or 1 KG. If your book order is heavy or oversized, we may contact you to let you know if extra shipping is required. Each order is packed with the utmost care to ensure safe arrival.
Seller: Allen's Rare Books, El Monte, CA, U.S.A.
Ray Bradbury. The Illustrated Man (BCE). Doubleday and Company, 1951.
Price: US$299.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Book Club Edition; the original dust jacket is included; an ex-Library book in good condition, has usual stamps and stickers on the inside and outside of the book;
Seller: Kota Books, Watertown, SD, U.S.A.
Ray Bradbury. The Illustrated Man. Doubleday & Company, Garden City New York, 1951.
Price: US$500.01 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near fine early reprint signed and dated by Ray Bradbury on the half-title page (8/22/88). Binding square and tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Some slight bumping to spine ends, corners. Else fine. Very good original, bright orange dust jacket. Price-clipped. General wear. Some fading to spine. Some rubbing to front and back cover. Overall a lovely copy of an early collection, signed by Bradbury.
Seller: Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books , Toronto, ON, Canada
Ray Bradbury. The Illustrated Man. Doubleday, New York, 1951.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, later printing, though a wonderful association copy signed and inscribed to Bradbury's lifelong friend Dolph Sharpe and his wife Rosalind in 1952. Bradbury befriended Sharpe through a writing group that Sharpe founded in LA in the late 40s. This group met for years to discuss reading and writing, eventually moving to meet in Sharpe's home, where Bradbury would continue to visit for decades, read his manuscripts aloud and get the advice of his friends. Book is about very good, with noticeable wear and signs of use. Phil parks dust jacket is not original, is too large, and so shows signs of wear, particularly around edges. Satisfaction guaranteed. Additional photos always available on request. Shipped in a fitted, padded box.
Seller: The Great Catsby's Rare Books, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Bradbury, Ray & Butchkes. The Illustrated Man. Doubleday Books, C2a, 1951.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc, Garden City, New York. 1951. 252 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Price-clipped Sidney Butchkes DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (small chip present to the crown of the DJ spine, spine lightly darkened). Bound in tan cloth with black titles present to the spine. , Boards clean with no wear present. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid. Ray Bradbury brings wonders alive. For this peerless American storyteller, the most bewitching force in the universe is human nature. In these eighteen startling tales unfolding across a canvas of tattooed skin, living cities take their vengeance, technology awakens the most primal natural instincts, and dreams are carried aloft in junkyard rockets. Provocative and powerful, The Illustrated Man is a kaleidoscopic blending of magic, imagination, and truthas exhilarating as interplanetary travel, as maddening as a walk in a million-year rain, and as comforting as simple, familiar rituals on the last night of the world. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 253 pages
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. The Illustrated Man. Doubleday and Company, 1951.
Price: US$888.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The Illustrated Man Author: Ray Bradbury Publication: Doubleday and Company, New York, New York Edition: First Edition, First Printing Binding: Hardcover Condition: A Fine copy in a Near Fine mylar wrapped dustjacket Description: THIS CLASSIC FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING 1951 BOOK IS WRITTEN BY PULITZER PRIZE AND EMMY AWARD WINNING AUTHOR RAY BRADBURY! First edition, first printing in Fine condition with VERY tight binding and in a mylar wrapped price clipped dustjacket in Near Fine condition (see photos). From the extensive Ray Bradbury Collection at Allen s Rare Books. 252pp. Store Description Welcome to Allen s Rare Books. Each book in our inventory has been personally inspected, exhaustively described, and photographed to meet the standards of the discerning collector. We encourage prospective customers to contact us with any questions. Terms of Sale We accept all major credit cards via the AbeBooks Shopping Cart. Customers have 30 days to return a purchased volume(s) which do not meet their original description or are otherwise unsatisfactory. We are proud to offer free shipping on all standard (octavo) sized volumes. Shipping Shipping costs are based on books weighing 2.2 lbs. or 1 KG. If your book order is heavy or oversized, we may contact you to let you know if extra shipping is required. Each order is packed with the utmost care to ensure safe arrival.
Seller: Allen's Rare Books, El Monte, CA, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. The Illustrated Man. Doubleday, 1951.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book vg. Text clear. Binding tight. Tiny bit of fading on inside front cover. Cloth cover vg. Clipped dust jacket vg as well. 251 pp.
Seller: Doodletown Farm Books, Ancram, NY, U.S.A.
Ray Bradbury. The Illustrated Man. Doubleday, 1951.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Doubleday, New York 1951. First Edition / First Printing. Stated First Edition, no additional printings. Cloth binding. Jacket priced at $2.95. Book Condition: Near Fine, light spots at the endpaper. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine, shelf wear, light spots. Wrapped in a new removable mylar cover.
Seller: 1st Editions and Antiquarian Books, Opelika, AL, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. THE ILLUSTRATED MAN. Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, 1951.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. Inscribed and signed by Bradbury to a well known fan on a label affixed to the front free end paper. Collects eighteen stories plus prologue and epilogue, including "The Velt," "Kaleidoscope," "The Long Rain," and "Zero Hour." Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-63. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 256. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 1008-13. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket light wear along the edges, tiny tear to the upper front panel, mild fade to the orange ink of the spine panel, and spotting along the rear panel fold. (31423)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. THE ILLUSTRATED MAN. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, 1951.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's third book. A classic collection of short fiction including "The Veldt," "Kaleidoscope," "The Other Foot," "The Long Rain," "Zero Hour" and thirteen others. Basis for a 1969 film starring Rod Steiger as the Illustrated Man whose tattoos provide the frame for the stories. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-63. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 256. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 1008-13. A fine copy in very good dust jacket (priced $2.75 on the front flap) with a few rubs and scuffs to the orange background ink and mild creases and a touch of dust soiling to rear panel. (#172727)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. THE ILLUSTRATED MAN. Doubleday, 1951.
Price: US$1162.54 + shipping
Description: THE ILLUSTRATED MAN, Doubleday, 1951, first edition, just a hint of tanning to the spine, some age toning to the t.p.e.'s, 2 exceedingly faint tape stains to the end-papers, 2 small brownish stains to the rear end leaf, else a tight, solid vg/vg+ copy in a vg color pictorial dust-wrapper with some shallow chipping to the head of the bit lightened dust-wrapper spine and some light bleed through to the base of the dust-wrapper spine from old inner tape residue. The front dust-wrapper panel has retained its red coloring without any of the usual fading so endemic to this title. Formerly Danish crime writer, critic and anthologist Tage La Cour's copy with his bookplate on the f.e.p. SIGNED by the author. Filmed in 1969.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Description: Bound in finely woven blue cloth stamped in red on the spine which is faded. The front and rear boards are faded, darkened along the edges; light flecking on the rear panel. This copy is inscribed & signed by Ray Bradbury: "For Oliver Evans with my sincere best wishes for a successful recovery and a good life--from Ray Bradbury (underscored) June 12, 1951(underscored)." Also inscribed beneath by Oliver: "For Marion, a born appreciator of things I would like to appreciate better than I do Oliver" In a supplied dust jacket from a later printing. with the price of $2.95 and .25" taller than the book. The Martian Chronicles is a 1950 science fiction short story collection byRay 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 in between a short story collection and an episodic novel, containing stories Bradbury originally published in the late 1940s in science fiction magazines. The stories were loosely woven together with a series of short, interstitial vignettes for publication.Bradbury has credited Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio and John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath as influences on the structure of the book. He has called it a "half-cousin to a novel" and "a book of stories pretending to be a novel". As such, it is similar in structure to Bradbury's short story collection, The Illustrated Man, which also uses a thin frame story to link various unrelated short stories.The Martian Chronicles follows a "future history" structure. The stories, complete in themselves, come together as episodes in a larger sequential narrative framework. The overall structure is in three parts, punctuated by two catastrophes: the near-extinction of the Martians and the parallel near-extinction of the human race. (Wikipedia)
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. The Illustrated Man. Doubleday, New York , New York, 1951.
Price: US$1240.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near Fine Book & Very Good Jacket, Signed 1st ed 1st pt in a protective cover
Seller: Dallas Surplus Stacks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Ray Bradbury. The Illustrated Man. Doubleday & Company, 1951.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. Clipped DJ in archival cover, chip, folds.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. The Illustrated Man.. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, 1951.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Bradbury's third book. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Ray Bradbury on the title page. Near fine in a near fine bright dust jacket that shows none of the spine fading endemic to this title, name to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Syndney Butchkes. A very bright example. Ray Bradbury's second collection, The Illustrated Man is a marvelous, if mostly dark, quilt of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. In an ingenious framework to open and close the book, Bradbury presents himself as a nameless narrator who meets the Illustrated Man--a wanderer whose entire body is a living canvas of exotic tattoos." (Stanley Wiater)
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. THE ILLUSTRATED MAN. Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, 1951.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. Collects eighteen stories plus prologue and epilogue, including "The Velt," "Kaleidoscope," "The Long Rain," and "Zero Hour." Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-63. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 256. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 1008-13. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with rubbing along front flap fold, mild rubbing with a touch of wear to the spine ends, moderate fade to the orange ink color of the spine panel. A better than average copy. (29051)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Ray Bradbury. THE ILLUSTRATED MAN. Doubleday, New York, 1951.
Price: US$1938.95 + shipping
Description: Very Good+ in a Very Good clipped dust jacket. All 4 flap corners clipped, price remains. Faint toning on both pastedowns and end pages. Light rubbing, few small open tears along panel edges.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
RAY BRADBURY. THE ILLUSTRATED MAN (FLAT SIGNED). Doubleday and Company, 1951.
Price: US$2695.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Signed First Edition, First printing: Near fine stated first edition in a scarce vibrant unfaded dust jacket. BOLDLY SIGNED by Ray Bradbury, “Ray Bradbury” in brown/gold felt tip and not inscribed to anyone! Near fine book with near fine jacket. The book is in great condition with beige boards, with unfaded titles to spine. The boards have sharp corners with one tiny tip bump, and no edgewear. The binding is tight and square. The internal pages and end papers are clean and flat with No marks, No inscriptions, No stains, No bent pages and No foxing. The book was signed on the front free end paper by Ray Bradbury “Ray Bradbury” in vibrant brown/gold felt tip. Beautiful clean book, internally appearing as unread. Please see images. The original first edition dust jacket is in near fine condition withOUT the endemic spine fading common to this title, (note that most all the jackets have excessive fading of the the red spine to a pale beige). Instead The jacket is has vibrant colors. The jacket has benefited from a small touch of restoration to the spine tips, and presents in near fine condition with No edgewear, No chips, No tears, No rips, No stains, and No rubbing. The dust jacket is NOT price clipped and has a stated price of $2.75, and is now protected in a new clear removeable archival cover. Please see detailed images. A very exceptional copy of this superb signed title in highly collectible condition. Presents well on the shelf. ADDITIONAL IMAGES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Please see our ABE store for other rare SciFi titles.
Seller: Meier And Sons Rare Books, New Canaan, CT, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. THE ILLUSTRATED MAN. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York, 1951.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: SIGNED, dated, & Illustrated with a CARICATURE of himself by the Author; 8vo, beige buckram, red pictorial dust jacket, 251 + [1p. Epilogue} + [2] pages. Rare copy of Ray Bradbury's important collection of stories with his amusing SELF PORTRAIT/CARICATURE; inscribed to "Joel!' by the author; dated Oct. 23, 72." This third collection of short stories by the great Sci-Fi author includes "Prologue: The Illustrated Man," "The Long Rain," "Zero Hour," "The Velt," and "Kaleidoscope," among several other titles. According to Clute & Nicholls, Encyclopedia of SF: "RB's vintage years are normally thought to be 1946-55, his short-story collections of that period are certainly superior to those he produced later. They began with The Illustrated man (coll. 1951; with 2 stories added and 4 deleted, rev. 1952 UK), in which the tales are given a linking framework; they are all seen as magical tattoos which, springing from the body of the protagonist, become living stories. Three were filmed as The Illustrated Man by Jack Smight in 1968" (p.152). Rod Steiger starred in the film. Dust jacket has been slightly trimmed at corners not affecting the price of "$2.75" (therefore, first state) with slight rubbing and a few minute tears at extremities of the very good or better jacket. Two 1/2" neat red pencil streaks on rear pastedown. Bleiler, Guide to Supernatural Fiction, 256; Anatomy of Wonder (1995), "Best Books": 769; Locke, Spectrum of Fantasy, I p.39; Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp.1008-13.
Seller: Borg Antiquarian, Lake Forest, IL, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. Illustrated Man. Doubleday, 1951.
Price: US$3750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing SIGNED by Ray Bradbury. A magnificent dustjacket that is vibrant in color with no chips or tears. This original First Issue dustjacket has the price present on the front flap with only a hint of wear to the edges. The book is in excellent condition. The binding is tight, and the boards are crisp with slight wear to the edges. The pages are exceptionally clean with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a stunning copy seldom seen in this nice condition. We buy Bradbury First Editions with the original dustjacket.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. The Illustrated Man. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York, 1951.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing with publisher's original packing slip laid in. Bound in publisher's original tan cloth with spine lettered in blackish-brown. Faint stain to base of spine and extending onto boards and offsetting to front endsheet from formerly laid in ephemera, else fine, in a sharp and bright example of the dust jacket, unclipped, with trivial spine wear and color touch-ups to spine ends. A tough title to find approaching anywhere near this condition.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. THE ILLUSTRATED MAN. Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, 1951.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. This copy inscribed and signed to Ron [Goulart] on the front free end paper, dated 1952. Collects eighteen stories plus prologue and epilogue, including "The Velt," "Kaleidoscope," "The Long Rain," and "Zero Hour." Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-63. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 256. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 1008-13. Lower corners slightly bruised, some uneven toning to cloth a nearly fine copy in a just about fine dust jacket with slight wear to the corner tips and spine ends and slight toning to the spine panel. An attractive copy. (31422)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.