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Death
is a Lonely Business
[mystery]
Bantam paperback, 1st printing, Feb. 1987 – It’s the early 1950s, in
Venice, California, where scores of old silent movie stars and young
writers try to keep their art and their bodies alive. As Bradbury’s
autobiographical hero, a young writer, pounds out his short stories,
someone is killing off the older denizens of the city. The writer joins
forces with detective Elmo Crumley and a faded screen star to
investigate the deaths.
[NF] $9.99 |
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Dinosaur Tales
[SF, young adult] Bantam paperback, 1st
printing, Nov. 1984 – a collection of six stories with dinosaur-related
themes, with illustrations by Gahan Wilson, William Stout, Steranko,
Moebius, Overton Loyd, Kenneth Smith, and David Wiesner. Includes A
Sound of Thunder, The Fog Horn, Tyranosaurus Rex, plus three original
stories, an introduction by the author, and a foreword by Ray
Harryhousen. Cover art by Sanjulian. Produced by Byron Preiss.
[NM] $9.99 |
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Fahrenheit 451
[SF, dystopia]
Ballantine paperback #01636, 1969 – the
classic dystopian novel of a repressive future state in which possession
of books is illegal and the function of municipal fire departments is to
seek out and burn all existing books; where trivial information is good
while knowledge and ideas are bad. A literary underground resistance
preserves books by memorization. A 1966
film
adaptation
of the novel
was produced by François Truffaut.
[VG] $4.99 |
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The
Golden Apples of the Sun
[SF, short stories]
Bantam paperback #S4867, 1971 – a classic
collection of 22 stories of science fiction and fantasy, first published
in 1953. Contents include The Foghorn, The Pedestrian, A Sound of
Thunder, The April Witch, The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl, The
Invisible Boy, The Flying Machine, The Murderer, The Great Wide World
Over There, Powerhouse, En La Noche, Sun and Shadow, The Garbage
Collector, and others.
[G+] $3.99 |
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The
Halloween Tree
[SF, young adult]
Bantam paperback #24310, 1982 – Eight
boys set out on a Halloween night and are led into the depths of the
past by a tall, mysterious character named Moundshroud. They ride on a
black wind to autumn scenes in distant lands and times, where they
witness other ways of celebrating this holiday commemorating the
approach of the dark time of year from Egyptian, Celtic, Mexican and
European sources.
[NM] $9.99 |
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I Sing the Body Electric
[SF, short stories]
Bantam #11942, 1978 – a collection of 18
stories from the 1940s through the 1970s. A horrified mother gives birth
to a strange blue pyramid... a man takes Abraham Lincoln out of the grave,
and meets another who puts him back... an Electrical Grandmother comes to
live with a grieving family... an old parrot has learned over long
evenings to imitate the voice of Ernest Hemingway... a priest on Mars
meets the Messiah.
[VG+] $4.99 |
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Long After Midnight
[horror, fantasy,
stories]
Earthlight (UK) paperback, 2000 – a
collection of 22 stories from 1946 through 1976 including The Blue
Bottle, One Timeless Spring, The Parrot Who Met Papa, The Burning Man, A
Piece of Wood, The Messiah, G.B.S.–Mark V, The Utterly Perfect Murder,
Punishment Without Crime, Getting Through Sunday Somehow, Drink Entire:
Against the Madness of Crowds, Interval in Sunlight, A Story of Love,
The Wish, and others.
[NF] $5.99 |
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The
Machineries of Joy
[SF, short stories]
Bantam paperback #S5258, 6th printing,
1965 – a collection of 19 stories. In this book you will meet a
Hollywood monster-maker whose Tyrannosaurus Rex suddenly becomes
alarmingly lifelike; a boy who raises giant mushrooms in his cellar,
until the mushrooms begin to raise him; a corpse who supports his wife
and family; a circus fat lady whose midget husband has tattooed every
inch of her mammoth body with fantastically intricate designs...
[F] $5.99 |
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A
Medicine for Melancholy
[SF, short stories]
Bantam paperback #S5268, 1971 – a
collection of 22 stories including The Day It Rained Forever, The
Wonderful Ice Cream Suit, The Dragon, A Scent of Sarsaparilla, The
Marriage Mender, The Town Where No One Got Off, The Gift, Dark They Were
and Golden-Eyed, The Strawberry Window, The Shore Line at Sunset, The
Little Mice, All In a Summer Day, The Time of Going Away, The End of the
Beginning, and others.
[VG] $4.99 |
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The October
Country
[horror, fantasy, stories]
Ballantine/Del Rey paperback #27501, 1972
– 19 stories, including 15 from the 1947 collection Dark Carnival,
with illustrations by Joe Mugnaini. “...that country where it is always
turning late in the year... where the hills are fog and rivers are mist;
where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights
stay... composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal bins,
closets, attics and pantries faced away from the sun.”
[NF] $5.99 |
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Pillar of Fire and Other Plays
[drama, SF]
Bantam paperback #N2173, 1st printing,
Nov. 1975 – subtitled “Plays for Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond” – a
selection of stage plays adapted by Bradbury from his short stories
“Pillar of Fire” (1948), “Kaleidoscope” (1949) and “The Foghorn” (1951).
The latter was the basis of the 1953 movie
The
Beast from 20,000 Fathoms.
The author’s introduction discusses stage production tips and insights
into the history of the plays.
[NF] $9.99 |
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S is for Space
[SF, short stories]
Bantam paperback #S5621, 1st printing,
Nov. 1970 – a collection of 16 stories with an introduction by the
author. Reviews: “A collection of Bradbury’s finest stories.” –
Boston Pilot; “Bradbury wraps fantasy in miniscule details of
reality, so that the reader believes all and is ready for anything.” –
Horn Book Magazine; “The author’s best science fiction to curdle
the blood and tingle the spine.” – Wyoming Tribune
[VG+] $5.99 |
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S is for Space
[SF, short stories]
Bantam paperback #13504, 13th printing,
Sept. 1979 – a collection of 16 stories with an introduction by the
author. Reviews: “A collection of Bradbury’s finest stories.” –
Boston Pilot; “Bradbury wraps fantasy in miniscule details of
reality, so that the reader believes all and is ready for anything.” –
Horn Book Magazine; “The author’s best science fiction to curdle
the blood and tingle the spine.” – Wyoming Tribune
[VG] $4.99 |
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
[horror, fantasy]
Bantam Pathfinder paperback #9099,
reprint of 1972 edition – Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show crept
into town late one night to the eerie whine of a calliope. In the
fearful days that followed, a schoolteacher suddenly became a little
girl, a rosy-cheeked boy became a wizened Methuselah, a full-grown man
became a tiny dwarf. Two teenage boys gradually discover the dark
secrets at the heart of the show.
[VG] $4.99 |
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Tomorrow
Midnight
[comics, SF, horror]
Ballantine paperback
#U2142,
1st printing, June 1966 – eight Bradbury stories illustrated in
comic
book form, reprinted in black and white from Weird Science and
Weird Fantasy, EC
comics
published in 1953. Adaptations by Albert B.
Feldstein; art by Will Elder, Wally Wood, Joe Orlando, Al Williamson,
Frank Frazetta, Jack Kamen, and John Severin. Cover art by Frank
Frazetta.
[VG] $9.99 |
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The Toynbee Convector
[SF, short stories]
Bantam Spectra paperback, 1st printing,
June 1989 – “Most of the 23 stories in this collection begin in the
familiar rooms and landscapes of our lives, in our common thoughts and
memories — and then take off through the farthest reaches of the
imagination. Bradbury holds us enthralled as each story unfolds, as the
wondrous and the unexpected are revealed in the hidden facets of the
real.” (publisher) Cover art by K. E. Johnson
[VG+] $5.99 |
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