The Golden Apples of the Sun by Bradbury, Ray - 1953

Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. Signed. 1953, first edition. Signed by author Ray Bradbury at the title page in teal sharpie. 250 pages. Grey boards with yellow spine titles, corners and spine tips lightly bruised, boards rubbed to edges with tiny points of fraying to bottom fore-edge corners of both panels and corners of spine foot. Faint dampstaining to bottom 1/2 in of spine, and to thin strip of bottom edge of rear panel, extending about 2 1/2 in from spine foot. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket sunned to spine, generally scuffed and edgeworn, with 1/2 in closed tear to top edge of rear panel and attendant crease, small dampstain to top edge of rear panel, light pencil mark to front panel. Tape remnants to edges of inner flaps, with light staining to verso; rubber stamped numbers and pen marking to front inner flap. Dust jacket protected in Mylar; cover price $3.00. About 1 square inch of dampstaining to bottom of textblock, near spine foot; fore-edge of textblock dampstained through first 100 pages approximately, with no interior effect except at FFEP. Brown thin vertical line in center of title page. Light browning to both free endpapers. Prior owner's name penned to top of FFEP. Interior else clean, pages toned, text unmarked.