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The Ray Bradbury Companion: Available Copies

Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.35

In VG slipcase, with title label foxed with light soiling. ; 339 pages

First edition. Large octavo. Original blue cloth stamped in silver. Numerous b/w photographs and facsimiles. Issued without dust jacket. Publisher?s slipcase. Very good. 339 pages. 12 page introduction by Bradbury. 4 page preface by Nolan. Signed and inscribed by Nolan on front free endpaper: ?To Robert Trimble, Best wishes of William F. Nolan June 2, ?75.?

Signed by William F. Nolan on the front flyleaf. An early critical companion to the writing and influence of Ray Bradbury (1920-2012), embracing the full range of his creatively, including novels and stories, stage plays, screenplays, television and radio scripts, verse, comic strips, etc. Includes an introduction by Bradbury and facsimiles from unpublished and uncollected work. Octavo: xiii, 339 p. with a frontispiece portrait and numerous textual illustrations. Original blue cloth binding, with silver titles and pictorial endpapers. A crisp and clean example, better than very good. Housed in the publisher's slipcase, with some browning and scuffing to the paper label.

Detroit, Michigan: A Bruccoli Clark Book / Gale Research, 1975. Fine condition in a Very Good original slipcase. Internally VERY FINE. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. NOT a library discard. 1975. Profusely illustrated. The standard bibliography. Introduction by Ray Bradbury. Includes a wealth of personal photos, title page, book cover and dust jacket reproductions, etc. Full title: "The Ray Bradbury Companion: A Life and Career History, Photolog, and Comprehensive Checklist of Writings with Facsimiles from Ray Bradbury's Unpublished and Uncollected Work in All Media." Bound in the original blue cloth with sharp corners, stamped in bright silver on the spine. Complete with the publisher's blue cloth slipcase, with full wraparound blue and white printed paper label. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Very Good slipcase. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 352pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Oversize hardbound, 340pgs indexed, well illustrated. FINE copy in little little spine darkened board slipcase, not issued in dust wrapper.

In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Octavo, cloth. Label affixed to dedication page inscribed and signed by Bradbury to a well known fan. Inscribed and signed by Donn Albright, the dedicatee, to same fan on the dedication page. From the title page: "A lLife and Career History, Photlog, and Comprehensive Checklist of Writings With Facsimiles From Ray Bradbury's Unpublished and Uncollected Workk in All Media." "Nolan's work stands as a monument to one of the most popular and enduring writers of the fantastic." - Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror 291. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 10-26. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 8-15]. A fine copy in slipcase, no dust jacket as issued. (31508)

A fine first edition of this fascinating companion to the works of Ray Bradbury, illustrated, in the original cloth slipcase. The first edition of this work. In the original cloth slipcase. Slipcase in a very good indeed condition. A collectible and useful companion guide to the works of Ray Bradbury, being a history of the life and career of the author, as well as containing a comprehensive checklist of his works, and facsimiles from Bradbury's unpublished and uncollected works. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and some in-text illustrations. Ray Bradbury was a noted American author, best known for his dystopian novel 'Fahrenheit 451'. Written by William F. Nolan, and American author, who was a great fan and friend of Bradbury. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original cloth slipcase. Externally, fine. Slipcase with marks and discolouration to the paper to the boards and spine, and just a small amount of bumping. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Slipcase in a very good indeed condition. Fine

Signed by Ray Bradbury on main title page. Book is in as new/ fine condition. Slipcase also in Fine condition. No scuffing or shelf wear. Pictures sent on request.

First Edition. Signed by the author Ray Bradbury: ÒPat! As Always! Ray Bradbury, 5/5/88.Ó Also signed by William F. Nolan: ÒCheers! Pat! Personal best, Bill Nolan.Ó Fine in a lightly used slipcase. The 339 page massive bibliography, extensively illustrated, with biographical information on Bradbury. Absolutely required for anyone collecting Bradbury.