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Fahrenheit 451. [First UK Edition]. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO TIM SANDEMAN

Fahrenheit 451. [First UK Edition]. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO TIM SANDEMAN

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Fahrenheit 451. [First UK Edition]. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO TIM SANDEMAN

by BRADBURY Ray

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Hart-Davis,, 1954. 8vo., First Edition thus; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, top and fore-edges very lightly mottled else a very good, bright, clean copy. A PRESENTATION COPY TO TIM SANDEMAN WITH THE AUTHOR'S SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION DATED 1954 ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. With the splendid pictorial bookplate of Timothy Sandeman on front paste-down. One of the great dystopian novels, first published in the US in the previous year. It is the basis of Truffaut's first English-language feature film (1966) starring Oskar Werner and Julie Christie. PRESENTATION COPIES, AS DISTINCT FROM MERELY SIGNED COPIES, ARE RARE. A SPLENDID ASSOCIATION COPY

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Fahrenheit 451 (Ballantine Books, 1953) by Ray Bradbury is a dystopian novel that presents a future American society in which the masses are hedonistic and critical thought through reading is outlawed. Written in the early years of the Cold War, the novel is a critique of what Bradbury saw as issues in American society of the era. Bradbury combined two of his early short stories, "The Pedestrian" and  "Bright Phoenix," into The Fireman, a novella published in the February 1951 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction. Bradbury's publisher at Ballantine Books then suggested that he expand the work to make into a novel—Fahrenheit 451.

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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
Fahrenheit 451. [First UK Edition]. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO TIM SANDEMAN
Author
BRADBURY Ray
Book Condition
Used
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
Hart-Davis,
Date Published
1954
Keywords
modern first editions, modern firsts, ray bradbury, fantasy, sci-fi, dystopia, timothy sandeman

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