Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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Lynchburg, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Book Club Edition, 1967.
Book is in Very Good condition, with some bumping to corners. Front endpaper has pencil mark as well as prior store price tag. Front pastedown has prior owner name and dated 1967 in blue pen. Couple of very light spots in pages, but mostly clean and tight.
Dust jacket is in Fair condition, with wear, chipping, and creasing, mostly to corners and spine ends. Now in Brodart dust jacket protector. Jacket is price-clipped.
Synopsis
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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Details
- Seller
- Givens Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 20188
- Title
- Fahrenheit 451
- Author
- Ray Bradbury
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1967
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- classics, literature, science fiction, bradbury, book club edition, 1967, vintage
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classics; Sci-Fi/Fantasy;
Terms of Sale
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- Spine
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- Fair
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- Chipping
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- Brodart
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- Tight
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- Jacket
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