The Illustrated Man – Ray Bradbury 1951 BCE

$50.00

  • Author: Ray Bradbury
  • Publisher: Doubleday & Co, New York, 1951
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Condition: Very Good
  • Size: 8vo
  • Attributes: Dust Jacket

A Book Club Edition with new cover design. Black cloth, binding tight, a small dent on the edge of the front cover, internally fine, unmarked. DJ is bright and clean, chipped at spine’s ends. A Very Good copy in a VG DJ.

The Illustrated Man is classic Ray Bradbury – a collection of tales that breathe and move, animated by sharp, intaken breath and flexing muscle.

Here are eighteen startling visions as keen as the tattooist’s needle and as colorful as the inks that indelibly stain the body. The images, ideas, sounds, and scents that abound in this phantasmagoric sideshow are provocative and powerful: the mournful cries of celestial travelers cast out cruelly into a vast, empty space of stars and blackness; the sight of grey dust settling over a forgotten outpost on a road that leads nowhere; the pungent odor of Jupiter on a returning father’s clothing.

Here living cities take their vengeance, technology awakens the most primal natural instincts, Martian invasions are foiled by the good life and the glad hand, and dreams are carried aloft in junkyard rockets. Bradbury’s The Illustrated Man is a kaleidoscopic blending of magic, imagination, and truth, widely believed to be one of the grandmaster’s premier accomplishments: as exhilarating as interplanetary travel, as maddening as a walk in a million-year rain, and as comforting as simple, familiar rituals on the last night of the world.

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