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BRADBURY, Ray (1920-2012). Dark Carnival. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1947. 8vo. [314] pp. Beautifully bound by the Dragonfly Bindery in an art binding of full blue morocco, boards stamped in gilt, multiple colored leather onlays on front board depicting a boy with a spider (spider is black felt) in a matchbook (matchbook is printed paper), dark green gilt morocco lettering label on spine, custom-made endleaves with a spider and web design (text a bit toned). Fine. FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR’S FIRST BOOK, SIGNED BY BRADBURY ON THE FRONT BLANK, IN A BEAUTIFUL AND UNUSUAL ART BINDING. Housed in a custom quarter blue morocco clamshell case with onlaid brown leather spider and green gilt morocco lettering label on spine. “His best work, from the beginning, has been his fantasy… and his best fantasy has been his horror stories. As previously mentioned, the best of the early Bradbury was collected in [this work]. No easily obtainable edition of this work, The Dubliners of American fantasy fiction, is available… Included are such short Bradbury classics of gut-chilling horror as ‘The Jar’, ‘The Crowd’, and the unforgettable ‘Small Assassin’” (Stephen King in Danse Macabre). Bleiler, Supernatural Fiction 254; Currey, p. 55; Jaffery 27. From the renowned personal collection of Dr. George D. Lacy.