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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, NY, 1953.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 250 pages. 22 tales " of the extraordinary, the haunting and the beautiful". This is a first edition (not stated on copyright page), later printing (possibly 2nd.) with 1953 stated on the title page. Contents very tight, clean, without marks. Gray tweed boards with yellow letters, clean, bright, square. Unclipped dustajacket ($3.00) has slight edgewear, 2 short tears, chips off top of spine . The yellow bottom half of dustjacket's spine had faded to a pale yellow. The front panel of dustjacket is bright & sharp. SIGNED by Bradbury of the front blank endpaper. (without inscription). PPlease "Ask bookseller" if this is available before ordering.
Seller: Black Swan Books, Oakland, CA, 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 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, 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, 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. 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.
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.
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. 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.
Bradbury, Ray. GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN. Doubleday & Company, Inc, Garden City, New York, 1953.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Review copy, with the publisher's ink stamp to the front flap of the dust jacket. Presentation copy, inscribed by Ray Bradbury to Howard Rappaport of Brooklyn, New York on the front flyleaf. Accompanied by correspondence from Bradbury to Rappaport, including two typed letters signed (TLS), three gummed labels inscribed and signed by Bradbury with a typed note of transmittal, and three signed Christmas cards (1955-57). The author's third collection of short stories, regarded by many as his finest. Among the 22 stories are such classics as "The Pedestrian," "A Sound of Thunder," and "The Fog Horn". The book's title is also the title of final story in the collection, and comes from the last line of the final stanza of William Butler Yeats' poem "The Song of Wandering Aengus" (1899). Octavo: 250 p. with drawings by Joe Mugnaini. Original cloth-covered boards, with yellow titles. Tiny spot to the top edge, with some very light edgewear to the boards; else near fine in an especially fresh and bright dust jacket.
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.