Lot 182
Lot 182
Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury, 1953

    Price Realised USD 20,000
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    Fahrenheit 451

    Ray Bradbury, 1953

    Price Realised USD 20,000
    Price Realised USD 20,000
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    Fahrenheit 451
    Ray Bradbury, 1953
    BRADBURY, Ray (1920-2012). Fahrenheit 451. New York: Ballantine Books, 1953.

    First edition, limited issue, number 49 of 200 copies signed by Bradbury and specially bound in Johns Manville Quinterra. Fahrenheit 451 was first published as a paperback by Ballantine Books in October 1953. Later the same year the publisher issued 200 copies signed by the author and bound in boards covered in Quinterra Electrical Insulation, a chrysotile asbestos manufactured by Johns Manville and used for its fire-retardant properties. Currey pp.55-56.

    Octavo. Original white Johns Manville Quinterra asbestos over boards (minor soiling); custom box.
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