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BRADBURY, Ray (1920–2012). The Martian Chronicles. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1950. 8vo. Original publisher’s pale green cloth, spine lettered in dark red (spine gently sunned with some spotting to covers, slight lean); original unclipped dust jacket (upper cover gently sunned, light edgewear). FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY BRADBURY on the front free endpaper of the author’s first novel which includes “closely interwoven stories linked by recurrent images and themes, tell of the repeated attempts by humans to colonize Mars” (Clute & Nicholls, p. 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: The 100 Best Novels 3). Currey, p. 56.