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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 and extremes sunned).
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.