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The Stories of Ray Bradbury
by Bradbury, Ray
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+/VG-
- ISBN 10
- 0394513355
- ISBN 13
- 9780394513355
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1980. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Hardcover. Very Good+/VG-. Huge compendium of 100 of the late, great sci-fi master's best stories, all in one volume. 884 pp. From 1980, this is a Book Club Edition (BCE), identical in all aspects to the first edition save for no DJ price. Hardcover small 4to (6/5 x 9.5") has black cloth-covered boards with bright bronze gilt lettering to front & spine. Condition is VG+: extremely clean save for some barely visible cross-hatch markings to outside fore edge pages (photo 3). Binding strong & straight, pages white & unmarked. The unclipped DJ is VG-, with slight edgewear, including some very tiny chips, & rubbing to extremities, heavier along flaps & at lower spine; nicely protected in new mylar cover. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific); later orders, Weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
Synopsis
Ray Bradbury has published more than five hundred works, including The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Fahrenheit 451, and Something Wicked This Way Comes. He was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2004, and the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2000. He lives in Los Angeles. Christopher Buckley is the author of fourteen books, including Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir. He is editor-at-large of ForbesLife Magazine.
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- Seller
- Gargoyle Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 022299
- Title
- The Stories of Ray Bradbury
- Author
- Bradbury, Ray
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- VG-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
- ISBN 10
- 0394513355
- ISBN 13
- 9780394513355
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- SCI-FI SCIENCE FICTION FANTASY SHORT STORIES COLLECTION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction-Fantasy; Literature/Literary Criticism/Poetry/Short Stories;
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- Book Club Edition
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- Rubbing
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Fore Edge
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