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Book Not ex-lib. Hardcover in light grey-blue jacket with Tim O'Brien artwork

Book Not ex-lib. Hardcover in light grey-blue jacket with Tim O'Brien artwork to front, photo of Bradbury with cat to rear, 12mo. 6th printing thus. xiv + 268pp. + Bradbury series list. Author introduction. Fine/Fine. Book and jacket are as new: clean, tight, square and unmarked. Jacket in Brodart.

May have some shelf-wear due to normal use. Your purchase funds free job

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Size: 5x0x7; 1997 signed later edition, William Morrow / HarperCollins (New

Size: 5x0x7; 1997 signed later edition, William Morrow / HarperCollins (New York), 5 1/2 x 7 3/8 inches tall hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, embossed black and white paper covered boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiv, 268 pp. plus publisher's ads. On the title page, nicely signed in red ink by the author, Ray Bradbury (1920-2012). Otherwise, a near fine copy-clean, bright and unmarked-in a like dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear Brodart sleeve. Authenticity of signature guaranteed in perpetuity. ~OOO~ [1.5P] The first Earth people to attempt the colonization of Mars try to build their new world in the image of the civilization they left behind. This version of the classic includes a revised introduction by the author. The Martian Chronicles is a science fiction fix-up novel, first published in 1950 by celebrated American writer Ray Bradbury, that chronicles the exploration and settlement of Mars, the home of indigenous Martians, by Americans leaving a troubled Earth that is eventually devastated by nuclear war. The book projects American society immediately after World War II into a technologically advanced future where the amplification of humanity's potentials to create and destroy have both miraculous and devastating consequences.