Description: BRADBURY, Ray. Dandelion Wine. London: Rupert Hart-Davis. 1957. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher's burgundy cloth lettered in silver gilt to the spine, in the excellent dust jacket designed by Jeffery Lies. Inscribed with a sketch of a dandelion by the author to the full page of the front endpaper. 'This dandelion is for John Melville // Ray Bradbury', and dated Oct. 12 '86. A very good example, the cloth clean but for some minor tape marks from some haphazard mylar (by the inscription's recipient, regrettably), to corners of boards and around spine foot. Some spotting to the textblock edges, but the contents fine throughout, a trifle browned at gutters of endpapers. The dust jacket unclipped (16s net) and complete, with a tear along the spine head seeping into the front panel top corner, the spine a little spotted, the flaps with some very faint spots. A few minor scuffs, else clean. A respectable copy, scarce inscribed. Robert Melville was a notable collector of science fiction and fantasy based in Edinburgh. Bradbury's generally acclaimed coming of age novel that is perhaps his most personal and lyrical, unusual at its core since it is without SF devices. The British edition arguably more desirable than the US counterpart--the jacket certainly outmuscles it. Inscribed copies of the British naturally scarcer.
Price: 875 GBP
Location: York
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Shipping Cost: 30.51 GBP
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Language: English
Binding: Cloth
Non-Fiction Subject: Literature, Poetry & Criticism
Special Attributes: Dust Jacket, 1st Edition, Inscribed
Author: Ray Bradbury
Publisher: Rupert Hart-Davis
