5/10/2023 0 Comments Kaleidoscope ray bradburyTwo 1/2" neat red pencil streaks on rear pastedown. ![]() ![]() Dust jacket has been slightly trimmed at corners not affecting the price of "$2.75" (therefore, first state) with slight rubbing and a few minute tears at extremities of the very good or better jacket. Three were filmed as The Illustrated Man by Jack Smight in 1968" (p.152). 1952 UK), in which the tales are given a linking framework they are all seen as magical tattoos which, springing from the body of the protagonist, become living stories. 1951 with 2 stories added and 4 deleted, rev. They began with The Illustrated man (coll. According to Clute & Nicholls, Encyclopedia of SF: "RB's vintage years are normally thought to be 1946-55, his short-story collections of that period are certainly superior to those he produced later. 23, 72." This third collection of short stories by the great Sci-Fi author includes "Prologue: The Illustrated Man," "The Long Rain," "Zero Hour," "The Velt," and "Kaleidoscope," among several other titles. Rare copy of Ray Bradbury's important collection of stories with his amusing SELF PORTRAIT/CARICATURE inscribed to "Joel!' by the author dated Oct. SIGNED, dated, & Illustrated with a CARICATURE of himself by the Author 8vo, beige buckram, red pictorial dust jacket, 251 + pages. He seems to be an American Dylan Thomas - with discipline" - Sunday Telegraph / "Ray Bradbury has a powerful and mysterious imagination which would undoubtedly earn the respect of Edgar Allan Poe" - Guardian / "It is impossible not to admire the vigour of his prose, similes and metaphors constantly cascading from his imagination" - Spectator / "The sheer velocity of his words is an apocalyptic torrent which sweeps the reader on" - Independent / "As a science fiction writer, Ray Bradbury has long been streets ahead of anyone else" - Daily Telegraph / "Bradbury is a magician of richly textured fantasy" - Daily Mail:- (original cost £7.99).Ĭloth. No other writer uses language with greater originality and zest. The seventeenth is your own future told on the skin of the Illustrated Man:- Review(s): "He retains a wonderful, idiosyncratic sense of magic. Here are sixteen tales: sixteen illustrations. Tiny pink hands gesture, tiny mouths flicker, as the figures enact their stories - voices rise, small and muted, predicting the future. Because, as the sun sets, the pictures glow like charcoals, like scattered gems. Yet the Illustrated Man has tried to burn the illustrations off. 1st printing of 2005 edition:- Contents: Prologue: The Illustrated Man / The Veld / Kaleidoscope / The Other Foot / The Highway / The Man / The Long Rain / Usher II / The Last Night Of The World / The Rocket / No Particular Night Or Morning / The Fox And The Forest / The Visitor / Marionettes, Inc / The City / Zero Hour / The Playground / Epilogue:- Synopsis: If El Greco had painted miniatures in his prime, no bigger than your hand, infinitely detailed, with his sulphurous colour and exquisite human anatomy, perhaps he might have used this man's body for his art. © 1951: A collection of 17 short stories by Ray Bradbury. ![]() And here - above all - is the story of The Illustrated Man - tattooed by a witch with the most fantastic images ever seen on Earth:- (original cost 4' (£0.20)). These are stories, too, of Earth: the green villages of Earth - new and unfamiliar in the glow of a wondrous future. 5th printing of 1955 edition:- Contents: Prologue: The Illustrated Man / The Veldt / Kaleidoscope / The Other Foot / The Highway / The Man / The Long Rain / The Rocket Man / The Fire Balloons / The Last Night Of The World / The Exiles / No Particular Night Or Morning / The Fox And The Forest / The Visitor / The Concrete Mixer / Marionettes, Inc / The City / Zero Hour / The Rocket / Epilogue:- Synopsis: These are stories of other worlds: of the rain-gutted forests of Venus and the deep canals of Mars Of the empty blackness of space and of planets that have no name. ![]() © 1951: A collection of 19 short stories by Ray Bradbury. Cover Art: Bruce Pennington (illustrator). Condition: Near Fine: Small signs of wear.
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