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Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1951. First Edition. About Fine/About Fine. First edition, first printing with publisher's original packing slip laid in. Bound in publisher's original tan cloth with spine lettered in blackish-brown. Faint stain to base of spine and extending onto boards and offsetting to front endsheet from formerly laid in ephemera, else fine, in a sharp and bright example of the dust jacket, unclipped, with trivial spine wear and color touch-ups to spine ends. A tough title to find approaching anywhere near this condition.

The Illustrated Man is a collection of eighteen science fiction short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury. A recurring theme throughout the eighteen stories is the conflict of the cold mechanics of technology and the psychology of people.

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