May 15, 2018 - Sale 2478

Sale 2478 - Lot 25

Price Realized: $ 7,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
BRADBURY, RAY. Fahrenheit 451. 8vo, publisher's red cloth, front cover and spine lettered in gilt, pale stain to top of rear board; unclipped dust jacket, spine panel faded with light wear to head and foot, few short closed tears, tiny puncture to rear flap fold. (ESS) New York: Ballantine Books, (1953)

Additional Details

limited author's edition, presentation copy, signed and inscribed by bradbury: "One of 50 copies! For Stanley Simon [underline] Good Wishes! Ray Bradbury 4/28/82." One of just 50 copies bound specifically for the author, denoted by the gilt-lettered binding and confirmed by Bradbury himself in the inscription. ABPC and Rare Book Hub list only two previous examples at auction and none in the past decade. the most elusive of all the primary bradbury editions.