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Bradbury, Ray. THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, 1950.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. Brief signed inscription by Bradbury on the title page. Bradbury's second and most famous book, a collection of closely linked stories about the exploration and colonization of Mars. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-154. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 255. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 3. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1348-52. Just a hint of the usual tanning to spine panel, a fine copy in very good dust jacket with several mild vertical creases and virtually unnoticeable tape mends to inner surface of the spine panel. An attractive copy. (#162373)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, 1950.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed on the title page by Bradbury. Bradbury's second and most famous book, a collection of closely linked stories about the exploration and colonization of Mars. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-154. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 255. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 3. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1348-52. Some of the usual tanning to spine panel, a fine copy in very good dust jacket (priced $2.50 on the front flap) with rubbing along folds, shallow loss at left and right corners of spine ends and three corner tips, and 20 mm closed tear along top rear flap fold. An unrestored jacket which presents well overall. (#114532)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. The Martian Chronicles. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York, 1950.
Price: US$3800.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing. Signed by Ray Bradbury on the title page. Bound in publisher's original cloth. Near Fine with slight wear to edges, light fading to spine, pages tanned and a light crease to the first several pages. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with wear at the extremities, a faint scratch to the crown and tanning.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. The Martian Chronicles. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York, 1950.
Price: US$6000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. Signed by Ray Bradbury on the title page. Bound in publisher's original cloth. Near Fine with faint fading to spine cloth, owner name and date to front free endpaper. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with trivial toning and very light wear. A fantastic copy.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Bradbury, Ray. The Martian Chronicles.. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, 1950.
Price: US$6000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of the book that established Bradbury's literary reputation. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author two days before the day of publication on the front free endpaper, "For Nancy with my best wishes and my hope that I can continue to entertain you! From Ray Bradbury May 2, 1950." Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase. Rare and desirable signed two days before the day of publication; the earliest inscription we have seen. "The Martian Chronicles was the book that established Bradburys reputation He put far more emphasis on style and mood than he did on technical detail or scientific plausibility His reward was a stunning popular and critical success" (Science Fiction 100 Best).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$6460.86 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Jean! Ray Bradbury, 8/28/86". This was Bradbury's debut novel and propelled him from jobbing short-story writer to "Poet of the Pulps". The Martian Chronicles is a "fix-up" woven from several of Bradbury's previously published short stories. Bleiler, Supernatural Fiction 255; Currey p. 56; Locke I, p. 39. Octavo. Original light green cloth, spine lettered in red. With dust jacket. Housed in a custom blue cloth slipcase. Spine ends lightly bumped, spine and edges sunned, faint discolouration to covers; spine panel of unclipped jacket toned, flap folds slightly creased at head: a near-fine copy in like jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
BRADBURY Ray. Martian Chronicles. , 1950.
Price: US$6800.00 + shipping
Description: "BRADBURY, Ray. The Martian Chronicles. Garden City: Doubleday, 1950. Octavo, original light green cloth, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $6800.First edition of this scarce science fiction classic, Bradburys second book, signed by him and dated October 21, 1980.Bradbury's first novel and second book, "which could be regarded as an episodic novel, made Bradbury's reputation Its closely interwoven stories, linked by recurrent images and themes, tell of the repeated attempts by humans to colonize Mars All the Bradbury themes that were later to be repeated find their earliest shapes here" (Clute & Nicholls, 151). "This was the book that established Bradbury's reputation He put far more emphasis on style and mood than he did on technical detail or scientific plausibility His reward was a stunning popular and critical success" (Pringle, Science Fiction 100 3). Cloth lightly toned at spine. Shallow wear to head of dust jacket spine, rubbing to rear panel, foxing to flaps, front panel bright and clean. A near-fine signed copy. Scarce."
Seller: Bauman Rare Books, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
BRADBURY, Ray. THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES. Doubleday & Co, New York, 1950.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Description: Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1950. First Edition. Tight, square copy, slightly sunned, in a superb example, virtually As New, of its original pictorial dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Signed by Ray Bradbury on the front free endpaper. A fabulous copy, likely to be unparalleled. A true collector's example.
Seller: Mystery Pier Books, Inc.,ABAA, ILAB, ABA, West Hollywood, CA, U.S.A.