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1957. First Edition. Signed. BRADBURY, Ray. Dandelion Wine. Garden City: Doubleday, 1957. Octavo, original yellow cloth, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $4900.First edition of Bradbury's semi-autobiographical novel, boldly inscribed by him using several colors of pencil over the entire front free endpaper: ""For Matthew Stiller!?!!! This dandelion! [sketch of dandelion] With good wishes! from Ray Bradbury, Oct. 4, '92.""""Dandelion Wine is one of Bradbury's autobiographical fantasies, a novel that fully embodies Bradbury's love for creating eccentric characters and exploring their lives. The novel is more autobiographical than fantasy (unlike its companion, Something Wicked This Way Comes), with the majority of events being daily moments of life in the Midwest in the late 1920s. The main character, Douglas Spaulding, is based on Bradbury… Considered one of Bradbury's strongest works, the novel has received a good deal of acclaim and critical…

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'.