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BRADBURY, Ray (1920-2012). R Is for Rocket. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., [1962]. 8vo. 233 pp. Publisher's full blue binding, spine lettered in silver, publisher's unclipped (“$2.95") dust jacket (binding rubbed, lightly soiled, endleaves toned, foxed, skewed; jacket worn and soiled with tape repairs on verso, jacket foxed, chipped). Fair. FIRST EDITION OF THIS SHORT STORY COLLECTION, WITH A SIGNED BOOKPLATE BY BRADBURY LAID-IN. This short story collection contains such classics as The Fog Horn (the partial basis of the film, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms), A Sound of Thunder (the basis of the 2005 film and the origin of the theory of “The Butterfly Effect" – these stories appeared in earlier short story collections). From the collection of Christopher Grahame-Smith.