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Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: VERY FINE without any flaws. Mint condition. Personally signed by Ray Bradbury, William F. Nolan, and Ed Gorman. Gauntlet Press 1996. Signed Limited Edition of only 600 produced in this special slipcased edition. Hardcover book with dust-jacket. Signed and numbered limited edition, No. 283 of only 250 signed copies. Glossy dust-jacket. "You could hear the voices murmuring, small and muted, from the crowds that inhabited his body." A peerless American storyteller, Ray Bradbury brings wonders alive. The Illustrated Man is classic Bradbury -- eighteen startling visions of humankind's destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin. In this phantasmagoric sideshow, living cities take their vengeance, technology awakens the most primal natural instincts, Martian invasions are foiled by the good life and the glad hand, and dreams are carried aloft in junkyard rockets. Provocative and powerful, Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man is a kaleidoscopic blending of magic, imagination, and truth -- as 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. One of the essential classics of speculative fiction, from the author of The Martian Chronicles, Dandelion Wine, and The October Country. This edition is one of the Gauntlet "Classics Revisited" series, in which the authors themselves play a major role in the dust jacket design. In addition to illustrating the dust jacket, Bradbury help crafted the overall look of the book and wrote the introduction. This special edition also has rare photo of a young Ray Bradbury on back cover. Three stories from this book were the basis for the major motion picture "The Illustrated Man" (1969) starring Rod Steiger.
Seller: veryfinebooks, Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$440.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A handsome Limited Numbered 45th Anniversary Edition signed by Ray Bradbury, William F. Nolan (Introduction) and Ed Gorman (Afterword) and lettered "PC" of 600 Limited Edition copies. In fine unread condition with a fine complete dustjacket enclosed in the original custom clamshell box. Bound in black with a colorful complete dustjacket. The original custom clamshell box is in fine condition, lined in white felt with gold titling on the spine. This edition is one of the Gauntlet "Classics Revisited" series in which the authors themselves play a major role in the dustjacket design. In addition to illustrating the dustjacket, Bradbury help crafted the overall look of the book. This special edition also has rare photo of a young Ray Bradbury on back cover (seen below). 332 pp. Three stories from this book were the basis for the major motion picture "The Illustrated Man" (1969) starring Rod Steiger. A beautiful set long sold out from Gauntlet. Limited Numbered 45th Anniversary Edition.
Seller: Parrish Books, Sandy, OR, U.S.A.