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Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957. First edition. Label remnant to front free end paper, a fine copy in a just about fine dust jacket with mild toning to the spine panel and rear panel edges, a touch of shelf wear to the extremities. Book review laid in. (31413). Octavo. cloth. Inscribed and signed by Bradbury to a well known fan on the front free end paper with a drawing of a Dandelion. Set in small town America in the summer of 1928, a time right before the Great Depression and WW II. "A bucolic evocation of Bradbury's youth through rose-colored glasses. Though not strictly fantastic, this poetic blend of nostalgia and ever-so-slightly macabre happenings defines the author's view of the past as a country of the bizarre and the wonderful, and is central to Bradbury's fantasy world." - Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-44. "The poignant quality of Bradbury's writing, the evocative elements that will capture others than his usual audience, combine to make this an…

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'.