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Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951. First edition. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with rubbing along front flap fold, mild rubbing with a touch of wear to the spine ends, moderate fade to the orange ink color of the spine panel. A better than average copy. (29051). Octavo, cloth. Collects eighteen stories plus prologue and epilogue, including "The Velt," "Kaleidoscope," "The Long Rain," and "Zero Hour." [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-63. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 256. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 1008-13].

The Illustrated Man is a collection of eighteen science fiction short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury. A recurring theme throughout the eighteen stories is the conflict of the cold mechanics of technology and the psychology of people.

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