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BRADBURY, Ray (1920-2012). The Martian Chronicles. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1950.
8vo. Original pale green cloth, spine lettered in dark red (spine sunned, spotting to covers); original unclipped dust jacket (spine a bit sunned, some light rubbing to extremes). Provenance: Charles Prohaska (bookplate and ownership inscription dated 1950); Philip Trask (see inscription from Bradbury).
FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY BRADBURY on the front free endpaper. The Martian Chronicles was the author’s first novel “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.