Books

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1953. First edition. Private owner's bookplate to front free end paper, a fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with some light rubbing and soiling to front panel and slight color fade to the yellow ink of the spine panel. (5869). Octavo, illustrated by Joe Mugnaini, boards. Collects twenty-two stories including "The Fog Horn," "The Pedestrian," and "A Sound of Thunder." The author's fourth book. "The Fog Horn" is the source story for the film "The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms" (1952) and "A Sound of Thunder" was filmed in 2006. A major collection of the author's fiction. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-62. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 258].

The Golden Apples of the Sun is a collection of 22 short stories by Ray Bradbury, first published by Doubleday in 1953.