signed first edition
1953 · New York
by Bradbury, Ray
New York: Ballantine Books, Inc, 1953. First edition. Very Good +. Octavo. Original white Johns-Manville Quinterra asbestos over boards, spine and front cover lettered in red. No dust jacket issued. Housed in a custom red quarter morocco folding box.
Ownership inscription of one William Donald Franklin, dated 1956, on title page. Bradbury's 2002 article "Fahrenheit 451 Revisited" extracted from UCLA Magazine and loosely inserted. Foxing to boards and outer leaves, wear to extremities, including small chip to head of front joint. A very good copy in the special arson-proof binding.
First hardback edition, signed limited issue, number 80 of 200 copies signed by the author and specially bound in Johns-Manville Quinterra, a textile made from chrysotile asbestos and therefore fire resistant. The hardback edition was published in the trade and signed limited issues shortly after the novel's publication in the less desirable paperback format.
Bradbury’s most famous work, about a dystopian future where books are banned – and burned. Fahrenheit 451 appears on the New York Public Library’s list of books of the century and won the 1954 American Academy of Letters Award in Arts and Literature. Though the book is thought to be a comment on the political culture and McCarthyism at the time of its publication, the work also grew out of a number of ideas and themes Bradbury had explored in a few of his earlier published short stories. The book would later be adapted into a 1966 film directed by Francois Truffaut, which was nominated for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. In a contemporary review in The Chicago Sunday Tribune, writer August Derleth called the book "a savage and shockingly prophetic view of one possible future way of life…compelling.”. Very Good +. (Inventory #: 6593)
Ownership inscription of one William Donald Franklin, dated 1956, on title page. Bradbury's 2002 article "Fahrenheit 451 Revisited" extracted from UCLA Magazine and loosely inserted. Foxing to boards and outer leaves, wear to extremities, including small chip to head of front joint. A very good copy in the special arson-proof binding.
First hardback edition, signed limited issue, number 80 of 200 copies signed by the author and specially bound in Johns-Manville Quinterra, a textile made from chrysotile asbestos and therefore fire resistant. The hardback edition was published in the trade and signed limited issues shortly after the novel's publication in the less desirable paperback format.
Bradbury’s most famous work, about a dystopian future where books are banned – and burned. Fahrenheit 451 appears on the New York Public Library’s list of books of the century and won the 1954 American Academy of Letters Award in Arts and Literature. Though the book is thought to be a comment on the political culture and McCarthyism at the time of its publication, the work also grew out of a number of ideas and themes Bradbury had explored in a few of his earlier published short stories. The book would later be adapted into a 1966 film directed by Francois Truffaut, which was nominated for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. In a contemporary review in The Chicago Sunday Tribune, writer August Derleth called the book "a savage and shockingly prophetic view of one possible future way of life…compelling.”. Very Good +. (Inventory #: 6593)
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