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The Illustrated Man.
by Bradbury, Ray
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1951. First edition of Bradbury's third book. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Ray Bradbury on the title page. Near fine in a near fine bright dust jacket that shows none of the spine fading endemic to this title, name to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Syndney Butchkes. A very bright example. Ray Bradbury's second collection, The Illustrated Man is a marvelous, if mostly dark, quilt of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. In an ingenious framework to open and close the book, Bradbury presents himself as a nameless narrator who meets the Illustrated Man--a wanderer whose entire body is a living canvas of exotic tattoos." (Stanley Wiater)
Synopsis
The Illustrated Man is a 1951 book of eighteen science fiction short stories by Ray Bradbury that explores the nature of mankind. While none of the stories have a plot or character connection with the next, a recurring theme is the conflict of the cold mechanics of technology and the psychology of people. The unrelated stories are tied together by the frame device of "the Illustrated Man", a vagrant with a tattooed body whom the unnamed narrator meets.
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- Bookseller
- Raptis Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2520
- Title
- The Illustrated Man.
- Author
- Bradbury, Ray
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
- first edition, Ray Bradbury, signed, The Illustrated Man
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- Jacket
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- Octavo
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Fine
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