The Martian Chronicles

New York: Doubleday (1950). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 222 pp. Original sage green cloth-covered boards, stamped in crimson, in original unclipped ($2.50) dust-jacket. Moderate edge wear, shelf and handling wear - particular to spine ends and corners, toning to spine. A few small nicks, abrasion to rear panel. Protected in archival mylar. Book is moderately tight, with mild forward lean. Mild shelf wear with rubbing to edges, corners - particular to spine crown and foot. Page edges toned, smudged and handled. Previous owner’s name to front free end paper. A rare copy of this sci-fi classic.

Dust Jacket: Very Good

Hardcover: Very Good

“The Martian Chronicles is a science fiction fix-up novel, published in 1950, by American writer Ray Bradbury that chronicles the exploration and settlement of Mars, the home of indigenous Martians, by Americans leaving a troubled Earth that is eventually devastated by nuclear war. Christopher Isherwood hailed Bradbury as 'truly original' and a 'very great and unusual talent’. Isherwood argued that Bradbury's works were "tales of the grotesque and arabesque" and compared them to the works of Edgar Allan Poe by writing, Bradbury "already deserves to be measured against the greatest master of his particular genre.”