Books

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1957. First Edition. Fine/About Fine. First edition, first printing. A superlative copy, bound in publisher's original yellow cloth. "Read Aug 1976" penned in small letters to the front free endpaper, else Fine, in an About Fine unclipped dust jacket with a tiny piece of tape to the blindside, light soiling to the rear panel and a small amount of insecting to two letters of the author's name on the front panel. An unusually nice copy of a book difficult to find in such condition.

Dandelion Wine is a 1957 novel by Ray Bradbury, taking place in the summer of 1928 in the fictional town of Green Town, Illinois, based upon Bradbury's childhood home of Waukegan, Illinois. The novel developed from the short story 'Dandelion Wine' which appeared in the June 1953 issue of Gourmet magazine. The book is essentially a series of loosely related, nostalgic vignettes about the protagonist Douglas Spaulding and his family and friends, and their experiences over the course of the summer.

One possible method to detect if a copy of 'Dandelion Wine' is a first edition is to check for the presence of '23' on page 239, and the publisher's address at that time 'Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York'.