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Lot 13
Sale 759 - Selections from the Library of Gerald and Barbara Weiner
Oct 8, 2020
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BRADBURY, Ray (1920-2012). The Illustrated Man. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951.
8vo. Original tan cloth (a few small stains, spine slightly toned); publisher's pictorial dust jacket (slight chipping, a few short tears, spine panel sunned). Provenance: William Rotsler (1926-1997), science fiction writer, illustrator and artist (presentation inscription; bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY BRADBURY: “For Bill—With my best wishes and luck to you in your wire sculptures always. Ray Bradbury. Nov. 8, 1951.” Bill Rotsler was a four-time Hugo Award winner and one-time Nebula Award nominee. Currey, 56; Nolan p.114.