FIRST EDITION OF THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN, SIGNED BY BRADBURY

BRADBURY, Ray. Golden Apples of the Sun. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1953. Octavo, original cloth, original dust jacket, custom slipcase. $2200.

First edition of this collection including some of Bradbury's best-known stories, boldly signed by the author on the title page.

This splendid early collection, Bradbury's fourth book, includes stories originally printed in The New Yorker, Collier's, The Saturday Evening Post and other periodicals. "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" (the inspiration for the 1953 film The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms) and "The Pedestrian" (whose title character is mentioned in passing in Fahrenheit 451). Two of the stories, "The Big Black and White Game" and "I See You Never," were selected for The Best American Short Stories in 1945 and 1948 respectively. "Notwithstanding his… stature as a novelist, Bradbury's greatest renown is for his short stories… Most of his best fiction from the 1940s and 1950s has been collected in The Illustrated Man… The Golden Apples of the Sun… and A Medicine for Melancholy" (Clute and Grant, 133). Illustrated with drawings by Joe Mugnaimi.

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.