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306 pp. Bumps to lower corners, pale spot to fore-edge. In all, very good plus in a very good, first issue dust jacket with internally-mended tears to the flap folds and foot and crown of spine. SIGNED by Bradbury on the front free endpaper.

'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.