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Ray Bradbury. The golden apples of the sun. Doubleday, 1953.
Price: US$2.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Foxing is present on one or more pages. Solid binding. Boards are moderate to severely edgeworn. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item.
Seller: Library House Internet Sales, Grand Rapids, OH, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. The Golden Apples of the Sun. Doubleday & Company, Inc., New York, 1953.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 20.5 x 13.5 cm. Octavo. Bound into grey lcoth, lacking jacket. Stated first edition. Ex-library copy with internal and top foredge stamps. Evidence of pocket removal from rear. Wear to covers. Binding feels tight. An affordable first edition of this science fiction short story collection.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. The Golden Apples of The Sun. Doubleday and Company, 1953.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE BOXES NEW BOXES Very good copy with clean pages. Name in ink to front free end paper. Book club edition. Sm8vo. Published in Garden City, 1953. 250 pages.
Seller: Robinson Street Books, IOBA, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN. Doubleday, 1953.
Price: US$127.60 + shipping
Description: THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN, Doubleday, 1953, first edition (2nd printing), a near fine copy. INSCRIBED by the author. (As new facsimile dust-wrapper available for a modest fee.)
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. The Golden Apples of the Sun. Doubleday & Company, 1953.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Tight and unmarked in lightly soiled and chipped jacket price intact. 1953 Doubleday no statement of edition or printing. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal
Seller: Griffin Books, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.
Ray Bradbury. THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN. Doubleday, 1953.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition stated. Publishers grey cloth with spine titles in yellow. Usual age toning to text block, VG copy lacking the dust wrapper; clean as a whistle inside, free of any former owner marking of any kind.
Seller: Nicholas J. Certo, Newburgh, NY, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. The Golden Apples of the Sun. Doubleday & Company, 1953.
Price: US$182.16 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Stated first edition. Price-clipped dust jacket shows minor wear, tear, and rubbing. Pages are lightly tanned and clean.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. The Golden Apples of the Sun. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY, 1953.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: In pictorial yellow and grey jacket over grey cloth, 8vo, 250pp. Fourth published book of the author, containing 22 short stories in all (including "Invisible Boy", "Sun and Shadow", "The Garbage Collector" and others, plus the title story). Currey, pg. 56; "First Edition" on title page verso. (light shelfwaer, rubbing and soiling to jacket extremities, fading to spine, short tear to jacket at rear upper tip). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Later Printing of the First Edition. A Near Fine copy in gray grainy textured paper covered boards stamped in lime yellow at spine, in a Very Good yellow, black and grey dustwrapper, not price-clipped. Jacket mildly worn with tiny tears, faded along spine, with faint evidence of stain to extremities. Book shows mild stain to edge of red free endpaper, else Fine. This copy is INSCRIBED by Bradbury on the front endpaper, and SIGNED again on the first blank leaf after the endpaper. 250pp. A bargain! Q04742
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, 1953.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Bradbury on the front free endpaper. Collects twenty-two stories including "The Fog Horn," "The Pedestrian," and "A Sound of Thunder." Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-62. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 258. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 242. Early owner's signature at the top edge of the front paste-down. A very good or better copy in a defective dust jacket that is worn at edges, has a 22 mm closed tear at top edge of rear panel, dust soiling, mostly to rear panel, and Bradbury's picture clipped from the upper rear flap. (#172725)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. The Golden Apples of the Sun. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, 1953.
Price: US$299.99 + shipping
Description: Ink name front endpaper. Dust jacket; 8vo; 250 pages Very Good foxing, some shelfwear & tears, light stain bottom spine, 3 top back.
Seller: Curious Book Shop, East Lansing, MI, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. The Golden Apples of the Sun. Doubleday 1953., 1953.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Very Good- Good in Mylar Jacket 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. VG-. Some edgewear. Inked name FEP. Very chipped & soiled DJ. Does not state 1st Ed. but laid in is letter from Bradbury w/ copies of copyright page and title pages of his copy which also does not state 1st. Inscribed to "Jean! Friendly wishes, Ray Bradbury 2/16/94".
Seller: Worn Bookworm, SAN MARCOS, CA, U.S.A.
Ray Bradbury. The Golden Apples of the Sun. Doubleday & Company, Inc., New York, 1953.
Price: US$300.01 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Pages are unmarked. Ten beautiful drawings by Joe Mugnaini. Some minor foxing throughout. Very small 'ex-library 1968' sticker on inside cover. Jacket is bright with very tiny areas of loss to top corners, 1/4" area of loss to bottom right corner of front cover, larger area of loss to top of spine and 1/2" minor closed tear on top of front cover. Otherwise an absolutely lovely copy of short stories by the legendary American science fiction writer.
Seller: Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books , Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, fist printing of Bradbury's 4th book. Edges of text block little age darkened, 1/8" tear at head of spine, VG+ in dust wrapper with soiled rear panel, two short closed tears & dime sized spot to rear, not price clipped. Free of any former owner markings.
Seller: Nicholas J. Certo, Newburgh, NY, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. Golden Apples Of The Sun. By Ray Bradbury. EXLIB. Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1953.
Price: US$354.64 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good
Seller: Mispah books, Redhill, SURRE, United Kingdom
Ray Bradbury. The Golden Apples of the Sun. Doubleday & Company, New York, 1953.
Price: US$400.01 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near fine first edition copy inscribed by Ray Bradbury on the half-title page, dated 8/22/88. Slight bumping to spine ends. Small sticker residue to top right corner of front end paper. Good jacket. Some minor creasing, wear to spine ends, corners and edges. Price-clipped. Overall an attractive signed copy of an early collection of Bradbury's Science-Fiction and Fantasy.
Seller: Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books , Toronto, ON, Canada
Bradbury, Ray. THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN. Doubleday, 1953.
Price: US$458.20 + shipping
Description: THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN, Doubleday, 1953, first edition, very faint foxing(?) to the outer margins of the end-papers, some age toning to the t.p.e.'s, else near fine in a vg dust-wrapper with some light wear and soil. Illustrated by Joe Mugnaini. SIGNED by the author.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
BRADBURY, Ray.. The Golden Apples of the Sun.. Doubleday, Garden City, New York., 1953.
Price: US$480.11 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. 250 pages. Twenty-two short stories. Black and white drawings (frontispiece and one drawing at the start of each story) by Joe Mugnaini.Head and tail of spine very slightly pushed, otherwise fine in near-fine dustwrapper with a nick and a 2 cm closed tear at top edge of rear panel.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
BRADBURY, Ray. THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN. Doubleday, New York, 1953.
Price: US$525.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The dustjacket has some spotting, a tape repair on the spine and some chips.
Seller: Euclid Books, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN. Doubleday & Company, Inc., New York, 1953.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. INSCRIBED on front endpaper, "For Eric! Ray Bradbury 4/8/84." Crease to lower rear corner otherwise near fine; in very good or better dust jacket with touch of light soiling, head of spine nicked, and small light splash to slightly age-toned spine.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. The Golden Apples of the Sun. Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1953.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Published in New York by Doubleday & Company, Inc. in 1953. "FIRST EDITION" is stated on bottom half of copyright page. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Book very good, sun-fading to spine and top edges of covers, and slight wear at ends of spine and corners. DJ very good, spine sun-faded, light chipping at ends of spine and corners, some rubbing on front and rear, small tears at ends of flap hinges, flaps clipped, and small pieces missing from top edge of front. DJ flap price reads ¿$3.00." We will provide a certificate of authenticity for this item.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN. Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, 1953.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, boards. Collects twenty-two stories including "The Fog Horn," "The Pedestrian," and "A Sound of Thunder." The author's fourth book. "The Fog Horn" is the source story for the film "The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms" (1952) and "A Sound of Thunder" was filmed in 2006. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-62. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 258. Private owner's bookplate to front free end paper, a fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with some light rubbing and soiling to front panel and slight color fade to the yellow ink of the spine panel. (5869)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. The Golden Apples of the Sun. NY: Doubleday, 1953.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Published in New York by Doubleday & Company in 1953. "FIRST EDITION" is stated on bottom half of copyright page. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Book near fine, in very good dust jacket with unfaded spine. DJ flap price reads ¿$3.00." Comes in specially made custom cloth slipcase. We will provide a certificate of authenticity for this item.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN. NY, Doubleday, 1953, 1953.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo.Stated First Edition.fine in very good, lightly soiled D.J.REVIEW COPY WITH SLIP & two page publicity letter (folded) laid in.(HSF)
Seller: NUDEL BOOKS, New York, NY, U.S.A.
BRADBURY, RAY.. The Golden Apples of the Sun. Garden City: Doubleday, 1953, 1953.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Very good plus in a very good dust jacket with interior tape mending. Inscribed by Bradbury in 1976 and additionally signed by illustrator Joe Mugnaini. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. The Golden Apples of the Sun. Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1953.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Published in New York by Doubleday & Company, Inc. in 1953. "FIRST EDITION" is stated on bottom half of copyright page. SIGNED by the author on the half title page. Book near fine except for very minor wear at ends of spine, discoloration on front and back paste-downs and front and back free endpapers, previous owner's Peanuts cartoon laid-in between pages 92 and 93 which has discolored those pages. DJ very good, spine sun-faded, mild water damage along bottom edge, vertical crease down spine, small hole in rare flap hinge, minor wear at ends of spine, horizontal crease along bottom of rear, .5" tear on bottom of front, flap corners clipped, and entire reverse of DJ discolored. DJ flap price reads ¿$3.00." Comes in specially made custom cloth slipcase. We will provide a certificate of authenticity for this item.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Ray Bradbury's fourth book. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Ray Bradbury in a contemporary hand on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. A very bright example. An anthology of 22 short stories, The Golden Apples of the Sun includes The Fog Horn, The Flying Machine, Sun and Shadow, and The Exiles. Groff Conklin of Galaxy Science Fiction praised the collection, saying it included "some of the best imaginative stories [Bradbury] or anyone else has ever written. One cannot even begin to describe their delights."
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN. Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, 1953.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, illustrated by Joe Mugnaini, boards. Inscribed and signed by Bradbury to a well known fan on a label affixed to the front free end paper. Collects twenty-two stories including "The Fog Horn," "The Pedestrian," and "A Sound of Thunder." A major collection of the author's fiction. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-62. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 258. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with a 13 mm closed tear to the upper front panel and some uneven toning to the spine panel. The front panel is bright. (31418)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: First Printing. Octavo; dark gray cloth, with titles stamped in yellow on spine; dustjacket; 250pp; illus. Signed and dated in ballpoint pen by Bradbury on the title page, who has cleverly used his signature as part of a smiling goblin drawing. Hint of offsetting to endpapers, else a Fine, unrubbed copy. Dustjacket is unclipped, lightly edgeworn and spine-sunned, with a few tiny tears and several old, faint dampstains (fairly shallow) along the edges; Very Good+. The author's fourth book, a collection of 22 stories culled from the pages of various pulp magazines.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. The Golden Apples of the Sun. Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1953.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine in a fine dust jacket. First Edition stated on the copyright page. SIGNED by Bradbury on the title page. Price-clipped. Closed tear at top of front panel. Comes housed in a custom slipcase. We will provide a certificate of authenticity for this item.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN. Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, 1953.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, illustrated by Joe Mugnaini, boards. Signed by Bradbury on the front free end paper. Collects twenty-two stories including "The Fog Horn," "The Pedestrian," and "A Sound of Thunder." A major collection of the author's fiction. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-62. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 258. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with some rubs and mild dust soiling to front panel. (29052)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, 1953.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects twenty-two stories including "The Fog Horn," "The Pedestrian," and "A Sound of Thunder." Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-62. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 258. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 242. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with a touch of general dust soiling. The jacket presents very well overall. A major collection of 1950s short fiction. (#158262)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray.. THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN.. DOUBLEDAY. NY 1953, 1953.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: SIGNED by the author with- "Best Wishes" & dated in year of publication on the front endpaper. Near fine in a bright Vg.+ dj. (A few small chips at corners. A few short edge tears & some light creasing to dj. Couple of light spots of rubbing & shelfsoiling to dj.) Though Ray Bradbury has been a prolific signer of books, those early titles which bear a contemporary date have never been common.
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN *** ASSOCIATION COPY ***. Doubleday, 1953.
Price: US$1628.50 + shipping
Description: *** WONDERFUL ASSOCIATION COPY ***THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN, Doubleday, 1953, first edition, some age toning to the page edges, else a vg+/near fine copy in near vg color pictorial dust-wrapper with two long closed tears; one along the front spine fold, the other from the front spine fold angling down towards the bottom section of the front dust-wrapper panel. INSCRIBED by the author at time of publication thusly: "For Al Capp - With continued admiration and good wishes from Ray Bradbury, April, 1953." Yes, that Al Capp; American humorist, cartoonist and satirist.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN. NY, Doubleday, 1953, 1953.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo, 1st Edition.about Fine in a good D.J.complete and not price-clipt but with some staining esp at the edges.full clear slow half-page INSCRIPTION.seemingly with a fountain pen.'For Breck- And Nan and Mike- With the friendliest wishes for a lifetime from.(curlicue).RAY BRADBURY.(Flourish).March 25, 1953."
Seller: NUDEL BOOKS, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2695.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Stated First edition, First printing, Signed Near fine book with a Near Fine dust jacket. SIGNED, INSCRIBED and dated by Ray Bradbury in with a superb full page inscription and a large drawing of a SUN. The book is in crisp near fine condition with clean grey cloth boards with bright, unfaded yellow titles to spine. The book has sharp corners and no edgewear but 1mm nick to spine tip. The binding is tight and square. The interior pages and end papers are clean, bright and flat with no stains, no marks, no bent pages and no foxing. Beautiful clean book appearing as unread! SIGNED, INSCRIBED and dated by Ray Bradbury in with a superb full page inscription and a large drawing of a SUN. Please see images. The original first edition dust jacket is in near fine condition with strong vibrant colors. The jacket benefited from a slight touch of restoration by an expert conservator to the outer spine tips, otherwise the jacket has no edgewear, no chips, no rubbing, no fading (which is unusual as this jacket more typically has a faded spine), no stains and no foxing. The dust jacket is NOT price clipped and has a stated price of $3.00. The dust jacket is now protected in a new clear removeable archival cover. Nice bright jacket without the typical heavy chipping and loss commonly found with this title. Beautiful, clean copy of a scarce early title by Bradbury. Beautiful, clean copy of a scarce early title by Bradbury with an extraordinary inscription. ADDITIONAL IMAGES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Please see our ABE store for other important SciFi titles.
Seller: Meier And Sons Rare Books, New Canaan, CT, U.S.A.