Ray Bradbury "Fahrenheit 451" Deluxe Signed Limited Edition No. 697 of 700, Slipcased w/COA

Personally signed by the great Ray Bradbury

Deluxe Signed Limited Edition of only 700 produced.

Easton Press, Norwalk, CT. 2010. Ray Bradbury "Fahrenheit 451" Signed Deluxe Edition of 700. This is number 697. Signed by Ray Bradbury directly onto the limitation page. Includes the original note card with the same matching number. Slipcased. A magnificent leather-bound signed limited edition to display in your science fiction library. 

Illustrated in color by Joseph Mugnaini and in monochrome by Adrian Chesterman. Full leather binding designed by Gwen Ackley. Cloth stylized outer slip case. Laid in is the Easton Press printed card describing the book. An exquisite lavish binding. Book is Very Vine without any flaws. The slipcased is Near Fine+ with rubbing in a couple of spots.

This is the science-fiction classic that is lavishly illustrated throughout and would also make an ideal gift for the Ray Bradbury fan.

Behold Ray Bradbury's critically acclaimed masterpiece, in a magnificent Deluxe Signed Limited Edition. This extraordinary leather-bound heirloom volume features special 3-color stamping, a fabric-covered slipcase, specially-commissioned illustrations, and a hand-numbered certificate of authenticity.

Fahrenheit 451

Nearly seventy years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.

Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.

Reviews

“Brilliant . . . Startling and ingenious . . . Mr. Bradbury’s account of this insane world, which bears many alarming resemblances to our own, is fascinating.” —Orville Prescott, The New York Times

“A masterpiece . . . A glorious American classic everyone should read: It’s life-changing if you read it as a teen, and still stunning when you reread it as an adult.” —Alice Hoffman, The Boston Globe

“The sheer lift and power of a truly original imagination exhilarates . . . His is a very great and unusual talent.” —Christopher Isherwood, Tomorrow

“One of this country’s most beloved writers . . . A great storyteller, sometimes even a mythmaker, a true American classic.” —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

Features

This signed edition contains the classic Easton Press qualities:

* Premium Leather
* Silk Moire Endleaves
* Distinctive Cover Design
* Hubbed Spine, Accented in Real 22KT Gold
* Satin Ribbon Page Marker
* Gilded Page Edges
* Long-lasting, High Quality Acid-neutral Paper
* Smyth-sewn Pages for Strength and Durability
* Beautiful Illustrations

Ray Bradbury

Ray Douglas Bradbury (US: /ˈbrædbɛri/ BRAD-berr-ee; August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction.

Bradbury is best known for his novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and his short-story collections The Martian Chronicles (1950), The Illustrated Man (1951), and The October Country (1955).[4] Other notable works include the coming of age novel Dandelion Wine (1957), the dark fantasy Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) and the fictionalized memoir Green Shadows, White Whale (1992). He also wrote and consulted on screenplays and television scripts, including Moby Dick and It Came from Outer Space. Many of his works were adapted into television and film productions as well as comic books. Bradbury also wrote poetry which has been published in several collections, such as They Have Not Seen the Stars (2001).

The New York Times called Bradbury "An author whose fanciful imagination, poetic prose, and mature understanding of human character have won him an international reputation" and "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".