Fahrenheit 451 (Signed limited edition) Bradbury, Ray; Joseph Mugnaini (illustrator) Books into Film,Gift Ideas,Literature,Modern Firsts,Signed Books

One of 700 copies signed by Ray Bradbury. A Fine copy in like slipcase with the original Easton Press limitation slip laid in. Full black and red leather binding with an Art Deco-inspired leather onlay flame motif. All edges gilt. In the publisher's black cloth slipcase. Octavo. xx, 152 pp. With five color illustrations by Joseph Mugnaini and four black-and-white illustrations by Adrian Chesterman. A very attractive signed edition of Bradbury's classic of dystopian literature. Bradbury s most famous work, Fahrenheit 451 (1953) imagines a dystopian future where books are banned and burned. The novel 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 (including "The Fireman," the novella that laid the groundwork for the novel). 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.". Fine.