89 GIFTS “Another Galaxy, Another Time” 123(FOSTER, Alan Dean) LUCAS, George. Star Wars. From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker. New York, 1977. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $2800 First hardbound trade edition, signed by ghostwriter Alan Dean Foster. Though credited to screenwriter and director George Lucas, veteran scifi author Alan Dean Foster wrote this novelization based on Lucas’ script, for a flat fee of $5000. First hardbound trade edition, published October, 1977; preceded by the paperback edition published in December, 1976, well in advance of the May 1977 movie premiere, and by the Del Rey Science Fiction Book Club edition. Mild foxing to text block edges, bright dust jacket with one short closed tear to front panel. A near-fine copy. Signed By Ray Bradbury 124BRADBURY, Ray. Golden Apples of the Sun. Garden City, New York, 1953. Octavo, original cloth, dust jacket, custom slipcase. $2200 First edition of this collection including some of Bradbury’s bestknown stories, boldly signed by the author. The short story “A Sound of Thunder,” which helped popularize the idea of the butterfly effect, appears here for the first time in book form along with classics such as “The Fog Horn” and “The Pedestrian.” Book in fine condition, in a very nearly fine price-clipped dust jacket with one short closed tear to front panel. A bright, handsome signed copy. “A Strange, Wild And Exhilarating World” 125BRADBURY, Ray. S Is for Space. Garden City, 1966. Octavo, original light blue cloth, dust jacket. $1500 First edition of this collection of stories, boldly signed by Bradbury. In his introduction to these 16 stories, Bradbury writes: “Here you will find just about every side of my nature and my life… my ability to laugh out loud with the sheer discovery that I am alive in a strange, wild and exhilarating world.” S for Space includes three never-beforepublished works: “Chrysalis,” “Pillar of Fire” and “Time in Thy Flight.” Bradbury considered “The Million Year Picnic”—popular even before he incorporated it into The Martian Chronicles—one of his favorite stories (see Barron II-155). Book spine slightly toned; dust jacket with minor rubbing at extremities and one short closed tear. A bright, attractive signed copy in near-fine condition.
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