May 15, 2018 - Sale 2478

Sale 2478 - Lot 26

Price Realized: $ 5,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
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, spine sunned slightly, boards smudged with faint wrinkling, front joint cracked with inner hinge firm; light toning to endpapers. New York: Ballantine Books, (1953)

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first limited edition of the famous johns-manville quinterra asbestos edition, numbered 20 and signed by bradbury on the limitation page. One of 200 copies. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 8.