Fine Books and Manuscripts

Fahrenheit 451. New York: Ballantine Books, [1953]. First hardbound trade edition. Red cloth boards (20 cm. tall), with front panel and spine stamped in yellow; with some rubbing along lower edges. With full jacket showing some edge-wear, with minor loss at upper spine and lower rear corner, a 25 mm. closed tear along lower front spine fold, and red "451" on spine faded to light orange. Expanded from the 1951 novella "The Fireman" and filmed by Francois Truffaut in 1966. Followed in the twenty-first century by the Amazon Fire.