The Golden Apples of the Sun (Inscribed to a writer) Bradbury, Ray; Joseph Mugnaini (illustrator) Gift Ideas,Modern Firsts,Signed Books

Inscribed by the author in black ink to front free endpaper to the writer and hoaxster: "For Paul Jordan-Smith - with the good wishes of one who has read his column for many years - Best from Ray Bradbury April, 1953." A Fine copy of the book in a Near Fine dust jacket. A tiny closed tear to foot of front panel (unrestored) with extremities a tad creased. An otherwise Near Fine example with an exemplary inscription. A collection of twenty-two short stories with the title and the final poem named after the final line of W. B. Yeat's poem "The Song of Wandering Aengus." Interlinked with this theme, Charles Poore of the New York Times wrote that in the volume Bradbury "writes in a style that seems to have been nourished on the poets and fabulists of the Irish Literary Renaissance." Though Paul Jordan-Smith (1885 - 1971) was a minister, scholar, and writer who penned a literary column for the Los Angeles Times, he is also remembered for orchestrating the "Disumbrationism" art hoax. After critics in Los Angeles snubbed the paintings of his wife, Sarah Bixby Smith, in 1924, Jordan-Smith launched a hoax to embarrass the art world. Under the alias of "Pavel Jerdanowitch," he painted several crude "modernist" pieces, including the ugly and somewhat infamous Yes We Have No Bananas. The enigmatic Jerdanowitch, who claimed to belong to the "Disumbrationist" art movement, exhibited his paintings to some critical acclaim in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York. It was not until the summer of 1927 that Jordan-Smith finally revealed the hoax in an interview with the Los Angeles Times, making the front page with his grand reveal. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.