Fahrenheit 451 (Signed first edition) Bradbury, Ray Books into Film,Gift Ideas,Literature,Modern Firsts,Signed Books

Signed and dated by the author on the title page, "Ray Bradbury 7/13/83." A Near Fine copy of the book with only slight wear at the extremities. In a Very Good dust jacket with a faded spine (as often) and minor chips or tears at the extremities. Illustrated with black and white line drawings by Joe Mugnaini. Bradbury s most famous work, about a dystopian future where books are banned and burned. Fahrenheit 451 appears on the New York Public Library s list of books of the century and won the 1954 American Academy of Letters Award in Arts and Literature. Though the book is thought to be a comment on the political culture and McCarthyism at the time of its publication, the work also grew out of a number of ideas and themes Bradbury had explored in a few of his earlier published short stories. The book would later be adapted into a 1966 film directed by Francois Truffaut, which was nominated for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. In a contemporary review in The Chicago Sunday Tribune, writer August Derleth called the book "a savage and shockingly prophetic view of one possible future way of life compelling.". Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket.