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Fahrenheit 451
by Bradbury, Ray
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Full aluminum silver foil silkscreened in black, white and scarlet. Fine in near fine silver slipcase
- Seller
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ardsley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1982. Hardcover. Full aluminum silver foil silkscreened in black, white and scarlet. Fine in near fine silver slipcase. Joseph Mugnaini. 182 pages. 28 x 16 cm. With a new introduction by the author. Illustrated with oil paintings by Joseph Mugnaini, a four color lithograph frontispiece and three pullout triptychs, the lithograph from zinc plates on the illustrations drawn by Mugnaini. Book printed by letterpress on a Heidelberg press by Lawton Kennedy, San Francisco on acid-free paper. Limited edition, copy 1267 of 2000 signed by Bradbury and Mugnaini. The heavy aluminum foil cover can resist heat of 451 degrees, the temperature at which paper catches fire. Laid-in the LEC Monthly Letter. NEWMAN & WICHE 527. LEC small insert read "Fragile This Book is Bound in Aluminum Sensitive to the touch." Our copy is pristine, the only fault is slight rubbing to slipcase at head and foot.
Synopsis
Fahrenheit 451 (Ballantine Books, 1953) by Ray Bradbury is a dystopian novel that presents a future American society in which the masses are hedonistic and critical thought through reading is outlawed. Written in the early years of the Cold War, the novel is a critique of what Bradbury saw as issues in American society of the era. Bradbury combined two of his early short stories, "The Pedestrian" and "Bright Phoenix," into The Fireman, a novella published in the February 1951 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction. Bradbury's publisher at Ballantine Books then suggested that he expand the work to make into a novel—Fahrenheit 451.
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- Bookseller
- Royoung bookseller, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22358
- Title
- Fahrenheit 451
- Author
- Bradbury, Ray
- Illustrator
- Joseph Mugnaini
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Full aluminum silver foil silkscreened in black, white and scarlet. Fine in near fine silver slipcase
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Limited Editions Club
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1982
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Private Press;
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About the Seller
Royoung bookseller, Inc.
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ardsley, New York
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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