The Collectible Ray Bradbury

[George at C-Springs]

The Shadow Show S/L finally arrived! I was starting to wonder, because I'd already seen one on eBay a week or so ago. It goes well with my post #90 above! Pardon the page color, that's just an uncooperative flash. Love all those sigs!

[Patrick]

Congrats, George! Mine arrived as well (#162)

[Stockerlone]

I had bought some time ago a couple of signed limited Ray Bradbury books
for my collection. This is one of them

Ray Bradbury - Match to the Flame
limited 70/750 signed
Publisher Gauntlet
Edited by Donn Albright
Published 2007
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Gauntlet
http://www.gauntletpress.com/cgi-bin...R_ID=293733786

[Scoogs]

If anyone is feeling generous and wants to get me a late birthday present, you can get me this:

Signed/Limited Asbestos bound first edition of Fahrenheit 451

[Randall Flagg]

According to Gaunlet Press:
We have a small number of signed copies of Ray Bradbury’s THE DRAGON WHO ATE HIS TAIL which we are selling for $100. Those who purchased MATCH TO FLAME (published in 2007) received a free UNSIGNED copy of this perfect bound chapbook. We recently found a few signed copies of the chapbook while searching one of our warehouses for another title.

To purchase the chapbook go to the MATCH TO FLAME webpage and scroll down to the very bottom. Order the unsigned chapbook. In the Comment’s section mention “$100 Signed Copy,” These signed chapbooks will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis. Sorry, no Paypal orders. As always ignore the notice automatically generated by our server. It will not contain the correct price. Publisher Barry Hoffman will send an official confirmation.

[divemaster]

If anyone is feeling generous and wants to get me a late birthday present, you can get me this:

Signed/Limited Asbestos bound first edition of Fahrenheit 451

I track this eBay seller (bookbid) pretty closely. If you sort all his items for sale from "highest prices first" you will find all sorts of books to drool over. He's got some amazing items.

[carlosdetweiller]

If anyone is feeling generous and wants to get me a late birthday present, you can get me this:

Signed/Limited Asbestos bound first edition of Fahrenheit 451

I track this eBay seller (bookbid) pretty closely. If you sort all his items for sale from "highest prices first" you will find all sorts of books to drool over. He's got some amazing items.

They have got some great items but I think of them about the same way as I think of Bloody Rare Books. Their prices always seem way too high to me.

[divemaster]

Oh, sure. I don't plan on buying or offering for any of them. It's just there's something about window shopping. For example, I see a genuine first edition The Cat in the Hat or Make Way for Ducklings or The Hobbit or Lord of the Flies, etc. and I think about what it must have been like if you were a kid and got one of these for Christmas before anyone knew it would be anything special. How many attics or boxes of kids stuff might have a first edition Seuss?

Saturday is the annual antiquarian book fair here in the DC area. I've been before and had a great time looking at the sci-fi first editions. If I had unlimited funds, I would try to collect golden age sci-fi. That's actually my true love (rather than horror). Asimov and Bradbury and Heinlein and van Vogt and Poul Anderson and Fredric Brown, etc.

If I win the lottery I'll offer to buy bookbid's entire inventory. And keep it all to myself!

[George at C-Springs]

And Clarke, don't forget Clarke!

[RC65]

Fredric Brown,

One of my favorite authors.

[herbertwest]

Aint going for sale, but an interesting cover design for Bradbury's FARENHEIT 451
>>> http://gizmodo.com/5988626/fahrenhei...atchbook-cover

[Jud Crandall]

Aint going for sale, but an interesting cover design for Bradbury's FARENHEIT 451
>>> http://gizmodo.com/5988626/fahrenhei...atchbook-cover

I was coming here to post that, but it looks like you beat me to it by a couple of weeks, heh.

That is cool as hell, though.

[mikeC]

Slowly going through Shadow Show and I was amazed that Dan Chaon basically blew RB off after writing back and forth. It's amazing how RB took the time to write to him and this dude was like "Yo, I'm staying in school" and then never wrote back. So sad.
His story was great. I wanted to check out his other stuff but it seems very depressing from the reviews I've read.

Does anyone have the Illustrated Life of Ray Bradbury? I can;'t quiete figure out what kind of book it is. Is it an artbook or like a photo book with some artwork collaged in?

[RC65]

I thought Chaon's story was one of the better ones as well, and have put one of his collections on my Amazon Wish List...might even pick it up one of these days. There were several standouts in SHADOW SHOW that introduced to me some (to me) new writers.

I have the ILLUSTRATED LIFE book. It's not really either an artbook or photobook, per se -- the focus is on Bradbuy's life and development as a writer, but is liberally illustrated throughout.

[Stockerlone]

Postscripts 1
signed limited 45/150

* 'Roads Were Burning' by Adam Roberts
* 'The Visitation' by Ray Bradbury
* 'Riff' by Ed Gorman
* 'The Rose Egg' by Jay Lake
* Interview with James P. Blaylock by John Berlyne
* 'Prize Crew' by Gene Wolfe
* 'The Overwhelm' by Allen Ashley
* 'A Choice of Eternities' by Eric Brown
* 'Stripping' by Joyce Carol Oates
* 'Tarzan of the Alps' by Brian W. Aldiss
* 'Original Sin' by Lawrence Gordon Clark
* 'Seventeen Syllables' by James Lovegrove
* 'How Big's Yours?' by Article by Mike Ashley
* 'Direct Line' by Ramsey Campbell
* 'Restraint' by Stephen Gallagher
* 'Footvote' by Peter Hamilton

[needfulthings]

[jhanic]

Awesome, Bruce! I had a 1st/1st of Something Wicked, but a flood in my basement turned it to mulch. At least it wasn't signed.

John

[Scoogs]

Love that one Bruce. Something Wicked may be my favorite Bradbury read so far.
Eventually I'm going to have to hunt down the S/L edition.

[needfulthings]

1st DRAFT SCREENPLAY MAY 20 1974




2nd DRAFT SCREENPLAY 12/1976




SHOOTING SCRIPT 8/24 /1981

[mikeC]

I wish this book existed
http://wildernessofthemind.com/

[Scoogs]

This is a nice custom binding. I'm kind of sorry I missed the auction.

[herbertwest]

Very nice indeed!

[dnemec]

I'm surprised no one has posted one of these! Gauntlet Press sold these prints earlier this year from a painting by Ray Bradbury for It Came From Outer Space. And with that signature, how could I not buy it?!

[needfulthings]

BANTAM PAPERBACK 1st EDITION AUG 1962 12 PAGE INTRODUCTION


CORGI U.K.

[WeDealInLead]

That novel is the reason I'm on this board now. It got me interested in reading at a very early age. Mr. Bradbury had great taste in books.