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Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1957. First Edition. The author's second novel, "a bucolic evocation of of Bradbury's youth through rose-colored glasses. Though not strictly fantastic, this poetic blend of nostalgia and ever-so-slightly macabre happenings defines the author's view of the past as a country of the bizarre and the wonderful, and is central to Bradbury's fantasy world" (Barron, Fantasy Literature, 4A-44). A superb association copy, inscribed by Bradbury to his long-time friend and fine press publisher Herb Yellin (1935-2014), who between the 1970's through the early 2000's published many of Bradbury's books and broadsides. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); yellow cloth, with titles stamped in gilt and light blue on spine; yellow topstain; dustjacket; [10],11-281,[5]pp. Inscribed by the author to his fine press publisher Herb Yellin on the front endpaper: "For Herb - This "Dandelion Wine" from the vintner himself - Ray Bradbury." Spine ends a little…

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'.