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BRADBURY, Ray.
Fahrenheit 451.
Illustrated by Joe Mugnaini.
Publisher: New York: Ballantine Books, Inc., 1953
Stock code: 49268
Price: £12,000 Currency Conversion
First edition, first printing. Limited issue, one of 200 copies signed and numbered by Bradbury and bound in Johns-Manville Quinterra, a form of fire-resistant asbestos. This copy is also inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "For Herb this asbestos-bound first edition of F.451 – with good wishes from Ray Bradbury". Inscribed presentation copies of this issue are rare.
Octavo. Original white boards, titles to spine and cover in red. Housed in a dark blue quarter morocco solander box made by The Chelsea Bindery. Black and white illustration. Boards lightly spotted and rubbed, short split to front hinge. An excellent copy.
