Fahrenheit 451

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1982. Hardcover. Orig. silver foil covers decorated and lettered in red and black. Fine in matching fine silver aluminum slipcase. Joseph Mugnaini. 182 pages. 28 x 16 cm. With a new introduction by the author. Illustrated with oil paintings by Joseph Mugnaini, a four color lithograph frontispiece and three pullout triptychs, the lithograph from zinc plates on the illustrations drawn by Mugnaini. Book printed by letterpress on a Heidelberg press by Lawton Kennedy, San Francisco on acid-free paper. Limited edition, copy 752 of 2000 signed by Bradbury and Mugnaini. The heavy aluminum foil cover can resist heat of 451 degrees, (truncated) the temperature at which paper catches fire. Laid-in the LEC Monthly Letter. NEWMAN & WICHE 527. LEC small insert read "Fragile This Book is Bound in Aluminum Sensitive to the touch. Bright, almost as new copy. (Inventory #: 22358)