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Sauk City: Arkham House, 1947. First edition. First edition, first printing. [viii], 313, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Fine in a bright, attractive dust jacket, a little rubbing to back panel, else Fine, unclipped ($3.00). Top corner slightly bumped. A lovely copy of the prolific American author's first book, a collection of 27 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.