Lot 13
BRADBURY, Ray. The Martian Chronicles. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED.
Sale 1242 - Fine Books from the Dorros Family Collection
Nov 9, 2023
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Live / Chicago
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BRADBURY, Ray (1920-2012). The Martian Chronicles. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950.
8vo. (Very light spotting to title page.) Original light green cloth (light toning to spine); dust jacket (light spotting, spine sunned, light chipping and creases).
FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY BRADBURY. The Martian Chronicles brought "the romantic image of Mars to a kind of impressionistic perfection" (Clute & Nicholls, 778). Bradbury himself once remarked that "...even the most deeply rooted physicists at Cal-Tech accept the fraudulent oxygen atmosphere I have loosed on Mars... Myth, seen in mirrors, incapable of being touched, stays on." Currey 56; Nolan p. 107.
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