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BRADBURY, Ray (1920-2012). The Martian Chronicles. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950. 8vo. 222 pp. Publisher’s full green cloth, spine stamped in burgundy, publisher’s unclipped (“$2.50”) dust jacket (cloth spine sunned and rubbed, light sunning to board edges, some foxing to edge of text block; jacket spine toned, and chipped at edges, some general toning, mild wear, soiling to jacket panels, some foxing to jacket flaps). Very good. FIRST EDITION OF THIS LANDMARK NOVEL, SIGNED BY BRADBURY ON THE FFEP; ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED BY THE BOOK’S DEDICATEE, BRADBURY’S WIFE MARGUERITE, ON THE DEDICATION PAGE: “Marguerite Bradbury in friendship and appreciation”. This is a “fix-up” novel, in which previously published short stories are linked together or modified with new material to form a cohesive whole. This novel remains one of Bradbury’s most lauded and popular. From the renowned personal collection of Dr. George D. Lacy.