Product Description
Ray BRADBURY - the Siver Locusts
Hardcover
Publisher: Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1951. First edition
Used - Good: Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1951. First edition 232pp. A good hardback copy in a high quality FACSIMILE dust jacket ( IDENTIFIED AS THUS ) Original grey cloth boards very slightly canted, bumps to head and base of spine. Front paste-down endpaper age spotted. . This is the British version of 'The Martian Chronicles', which included a story not in the original U.S. edition. .
The author's second book subsequently published ( in both the UK and the US) as The Martian Chronicles ( The original US title) .
The Martian Chronicles, a seminal work in Ray Bradbury's career, whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by time's passage.
In The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury, America's preeminent storyteller, imagined a place of hope, dreams, and metaphor-- of crystal pillars and fossil seas--where a fine dust settles on the great empty cities of a vanished, devastated civilization. Earthmen conquer Mars and then are conquered by it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of an ancient, mysterious native race. In this classic work of fiction, Bradbury exposes our ambitions, weaknesses, and ignorance in a strange and breathtaking world where man does not belong.
The facsimile dustjacket is in a clear plastic removable jacket protector. A facsimile dustjacket is a high quality colour copy on high grade paper, that replicateS the full artwork and design of the the original ( by Roy Sanford)
