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BRADBURY, RAY. Fahrenheit 451. Illustrated by Joe Muganini. 8vo, bound in white Johns-Manville Quinterra, an asbestos material with exceptional resistance to pyrolysis (incineration that chemically decomposes organic materials by heat in the absence of oxygen), lettered in red, corners bumped, joints starting, covers and spine are uniformly and significantly age-spotted but none of the chipping to the boards as normally seen with this title; mild foxing to inside pastedowns and free endpapers; text tight, bright and clean. New York: Ballantine, 1953
first limited edition of the famous johns-manville quinterra asbestos edition, numbered 94 and signed by bradbury on the limitation page; inscribed and signed again to herb yellin, his long-time publisher at Lord John Press, in blue ink on the front free endpaper. Bradbury maintains that his most famous novel was not about government censorship as is generally believed, but rather how television destroys interest in reading literature. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 8. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 749-55.
