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Bradbury, Ray
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Ahmed and the Oblivion Machines: a Fable
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Avon, 1998, 1st Edition,
Mint in mint jacket. Signed by Ray Bradbury.
007440
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M-BOOKS007559I
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$65.00
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Bradbury, Ray
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A Chapbook for Burn-Out Priests, Rabbis and Ministers
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Cemetery Dance, 2001, 1st Edition,
Mint in mint jacket. SIGNED on the title page by Ray Bradbury. COA comes with the book.
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From Publishers Weekly: For Bradbury enthusiasts, religionists and nearly everyone else, here's a delightful scrapbook of poems and essays, familiar summations but no less vital from a brilliant young fantasist grown older but not old. A "fallen-away Baptist," Bradbury has found a faith localized in a man-centered universe. Without recourse to the stylistic mannerisms that have made him prey to parody throughout his long career, he preaches with heartfelt urgency a return to space as an antidote to war. In essays he reimagines his lifelong idols, George Bernard Shaw and Herman Melville (GBS as a potential fan of Singing in the Rain, the "only science fiction musical film"; Ishmael as space voyager). His poems, the bulk in free verse, are no less exhilarating and infectious. One opens with an "apeman" sketching "science fictions" on cave walls while another addresses the modern "dichotomy" between Einstein and Christ ("Try this for size;/ A bit of both?"). There is humor, insightful in " Eccentrics Must Truly Have Loved God. They Made So Many of Him" and playful in "Has Anyone Ever Seen Anyone Reading in the Christian Science Reading Rooms?" (He concludes with a poignant image of the ghost of "Mary Baker eddying/ In pools of liquid ectoplasm.../ Reading her own stuff.") Bradbury hails Shaw: "GBS!" The future will add: "Ray!" (Apr.)Forecast: Bradbury, honored at last year's National Book Awards, won't lure many mainstream poetry readers, but fans who have been disappointed by the
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M-BOOKS008744I
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$75.00
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Dandelion Wine
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Bantam, 1959, 1st paperback, wrappers,
Very good. First paperback edition. Cover showing small boy in field with back turned toward the reader. Bantam #A1922, SIGNED by Ray Bradbury. Some light creases on spine. COA accompanies the book.
005515
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M-BOOKS005515I
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Dandelion Wine
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Avon, 1999, 1st ed thus,
Mint in mint jacket. Signed and dated in the month and year of publication by Bradbury. COA with book. First edition thus. 
007496
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M-BOOKS007496I
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$200.00
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Dandelion Wine
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Morrow, 2001, 7th printing,
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Mint in mint dust jacket. With a special label SIGNED by Ray Bradbury affixed to the front endpaper. This label replicates the jacket art for the rare first edition published in 1957. This is the
7th printing in this format, originally published by Avon Books in 1999.
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M-BOOKS009383I
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Dandelion Wine Signed
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Ray Bradbury: Dandelion Wine with Pictorial Bookplate, personally SIGNED by Ray Bradbury, on cover-25 Mint copy with special bookplate label SIGNED by Ray Bradbury affixed to the front cover of the book. Book has a clear acetate dust jacket on it to protect the book. One of 25 copies in this format with the bookplate label on the cover. The plate was published by Phantom Bookshop, Ventura, CA. The photo shown here is from another copy which has been sold, so the signature will differ a little. This plate replicates the jacket art for the rare first edition published in 1957. This is the 6th printing in this format, originally published by Avon Books in 1999. The dust jacket which was originally issued with this book also comes with this book (shown in photo). A Certificate Of Assurance comes from PHANTOM BOOKSHOP of Ventura, California comes with book to assure that the signature is authentic and original.
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M-BOOKS009454I
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Death is a Lonely Business
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Alfred A. Knopf, 1985, First Edition,
Digital photo of the book e-mailed upon your request. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket inscribed to "Linda!" in year of publication. First edition.
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M-BOOKS009288I
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Death is a Lonely Business
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Knopf, 1985, 3rd Printing,
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About fine in near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Third printing printed one month after first printing. Small closed tear to edge of jacket. SIGNED by Ray Bradbury. COA comes with book.
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M-BOOKS009735I
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