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First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($3.50 price intact). Published by Ballantine Books, 1956. Octavo. Red cloth boards stamped in black. First state binding with Ballantine logo inverted at spine. Book is like new; clean and crisp with some light wear to boards. No writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Dust jacket is very good with a few small tears at corners. Spine slightly faded and an interior tape mend along back panel top edge. A few pink marks to interior of jacket. A near fine copy of this early Bradbury story collection. 306 pages. LCCC # 55-12167. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ships with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York.

'The October Country' is a 1955 collection of nineteen macabre short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury. It reprints fifteen of the twenty-seven stories of his 1947 collection Dark Carnival, and adds four more of his stories. Each story is accompanied by a macabre illustration by Joseph Mugnaini. The stories in this collection touch on the themes of the autumn season, dealing with the fantastical, the weird, and the melancholic, conjuring the essence of October and its mix of anticipation and apprehension.