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Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1951. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good +. Ray Bradbury. SIGNED, dated, & Illustrated with a CARICATURE of himself by the Author; 8vo, beige buckram, red pictorial dust jacket, 251 + [1p. Epilogue] + [2] pages. Rare copy of Ray Bradbury's important collection of stories with his amusing SELF PORTRAIT/CARICATURE; inscribed to "Joel!' by the author; dated Oct. 23, 72." This third collection of short stories by the great Sci-Fi author includes "Prologue: The Illustrated Man," "The Long Rain," "Zero Hour," "The Velt," and "Kaleidoscope," among several other titles. According to Clute & Nicholls, Encyclopedia of SF: "RB's vintage years are normally thought to be 1946-55, his short-story collections of that period are certainly superior to those he produced later. They began with The Illustrated man (coll. 1951; with 2 stories added and 4 deleted, rev. 1952 UK), in which the tales are given a linking framework;…

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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