Dark Carnival
by Bradbury, Ray
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Edge & Shelfworn Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Durham, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
UK: Hamish Hamilton, 1948. Book. Good. Hardcover. First UK Edition. Spine moderately cocked. Binding firm. Edges of pages yellowing. Front free end page missing. DJ has small pieces out (the largest being 1/4") at top of spine. 1/4" piece of scotch tape on inner edge of front flap, and a similarly-sized piece of scotch tape reinforcing the inner side of the DJ spine. 3/4" tear at bottom rear edge of DJ near spine, repaired with scotch tape on the inner side. Not all the stories from the US edition are included..
Synopsis
Ray Bradbury's first book was the short story collection Dark Carnival issued in 1947 by Arkham House in the United States. These short stories set the tone for Bradbury's future work. His eerie, sometimes disturbing stories typify Arkham House books, and give us some insight into the young Bradbury. This book reprinted many stories previously published by Bradbury in Weird Tales of November 1944 (such as "The Jar"), and other pulp magazines of the era. Several stories saw print for the first time in this edition, however.
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- Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 39071
- Title
- Dark Carnival
- Author
- Bradbury, Ray
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Edge & Shelfworn Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First UK Edition
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- Variant Editions Ray Bradbury Bibliographic Significance Bibliography Supernatural and Psychological Horror. Fantasy. Science Fiction
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- Edges
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- Cocked
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