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DANDELION WINE
by Bradbury, Ray
- Used
- Signed
- Condition
- This copy bound upside down, otherwise a fine copy in a good dust jacket with rubbing and wear to corners ad spine ends, spine p
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Laurel, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957. Later printing. This copy bound upside down, otherwise a fine copy in a good dust jacket with rubbing and wear to corners ad spine ends, spine panel age darkened. (31414). Octavo. cloth. Inscribed and signed by Bradbury to a well known fan on a label affixed to the front free end paper. Set in small town America in the summer of 1928, a time right before the Great Depression and WW II. "A bucolic evocation 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 (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-44. "The poignant quality of Bradbury's writing, the evocative elements that will capture others than his usual audience, combine to make this an unusual reading experience." Kirkus Review 1 March 1975 (from a new release). Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 19.
Synopsis
Dandelion Wine is a 1957 semi-autobiographical novel by Ray Bradbury, taking place in the summer of 1928 in the fictional town of Green Town, Illinois — a pseudonym for 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 title refers to a wine made with dandelion petals and other ingredients, commonly citrus fruit.
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- Bookseller
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31414
- Title
- DANDELION WINE
- Author
- Bradbury, Ray
- Book Condition
- Used - This copy bound upside down, otherwise a fine copy in a good dust jacket with rubbing and wear to corners ad spine ends, spine p
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later printing
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- Fantasy . Signed
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About the Seller
John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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Laurel, Maryland
About John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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