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Sauk City, WIS: Arkham House, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by Ray Bradbury on the title page. Bound in publisher's black cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light shelf wear to cloth. Pages toned; endsheets offset from binder's glue and lightly foxed. In a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with light rubbing, and light soiling to rear panel. A lovely copy of Bradbury's first book, a collection of short stories.

Dark Carnival is a collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury, first published in 1947 by Arkham House. It was Bradbury's first published book. This collection presents stories with elements of horror, fantasy, and the macabre, as one might expect from the title and the publisher's association with H.P. Lovecraft's mythos.

Only 3112 copies were printed of the first edition.