The Martian Chronicles

by Ray Bradbury

$1,125 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

Publisher and Year: Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1950 Edition: First edition (stated), first printing (copyright page without a statement of reprint, as called for). First-issue dust jacket, priced $2.75 on the front flap. The book club edition would lack the first edition statement and the price on the front flap. Condition and Description: Octavo, pale green cloth lettered in purple, 222 pp. Minor wear to the extremities of the boards. Hinges and binding tight. Prior owner's name in ink to the front free endpaper and a bookseller ticket to the rear pastedown. Contents otherwise unmarked. Dust jacket a little toned; with slight fading to the spine; and some modest wear to the extremities. "Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle." Inventory ID: 877 - 157 - 090

• Publisher: Doubleday & Company
• Year: 1950
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: first

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