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Lot 281

Sale 6286 - The Collected Library
Lots Open
Mar 5, 2025
Lots Close
Mar 18, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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Estimate
$300 - 500
Price Realized
$640
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[LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB]. MUGNAINI, Joseph (1912-1992), illustrator. -- BRADBURY, Ray (1920-2012). Fahrenheit 451. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1982.


4to. 4 original lithographs by Joseph Mugnaini. Original full aluminum silkscreened binding in black, white, and scarlet, all edges silver foil (light wear, minor dents to aluminum binding along edge); original slipcase (light edgewear). Publisher’s newsletter laid in. Provenance: Donald E. Petersen (1926-2024), American businessman and former CEO of the Ford Motor Company (ownership blind stamp).

LIMITED EDITION, number 1,582 of 2,000 copies SIGNED BY BRADBURY AND MUGNAINI. “Chris Austopchuk’s ingenious plan for the cover required heavy aluminum foil to simulate a book so durable that it would be able to resist a heat of 451 degrees– ‘the temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns’” (LEC newsletter). LEC Great and Good Books 527; LEC Bibliography 527.

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