Ray Bradbury "Bullet Trick" Deluxe Traycased Signed Lettered First Edition "BB" of 52 [Very Fine]

Personally signed by Ray Bradbury

SIGNED LETTERED EDITION OF ONLY 52 PRODUCED.

Two in stock. Choose from "BB" and "L" in the order comments. 

Gauntlet Press 2009. Ray Bradbury "Bullet Trick". Signed Lettered Edition. Traycased. A beautiful Limited Lettered First Edition signed by Ray Bradbury on the limitation page and numbered BB of only 52 Deluxe Lettered copies. A beautiful like new volume with bound-in silkbookmark enclosed in a fine colorful dustjacket. All laid in a handsome black leather traycase with a pictorial front and lined in black silk, with a bound-in lift-up ribbon. This hefty 454-page volume includes five unpublished teleplays and two short stories written for "The Twilight Zone" television series but not used. AND only in this Deluxe Lettered edition is the teleplay for "The Twilight Zone" that was aired in 1962, "I Sing the Body Electric."

The Lettered Traycased Edition, limited to only 52 signed and lettered copies. Bullet Trick, by Ray Bradbury is a signed limited edition of never-before published material. It contains five teleplays (original stories that were not based on previously written stories), written by Ray Bradbury, that appeared on TV from 1955 through 1963. With the exception of the 1959 Steve Canyon production, the other four teleplays deal with fear and paranoia.

• A feeling of dark gloom and hopelessness hovers over “The Jail” and “Dial Double Zero.”
• “Bullet Trick” deals with the age old problem of an unhappy marriage and infidelity.
• “Tunnel to Yesterday” deals with the paranoia and fear of a war long gone.

Bradbury wrote three scripts for the original Twilight Zone, adapted from previously published Bradbury yarns. Only “I Sing the Body Electric” (appearing only in the lettered edition) was actually produced for the original Twilight Zone series. “Here There Be Tygers” and “A Miracle of Rare Devices” were never produced.

Finally, the book contains two prose adaptations Bradbury wrote after he wrote the screenplays. Both “Bullet Trick” and “Hand In Glove” (“The Jail”) are far different than the teleplays.

Reviews

"BULLET TRICK comes across as a true labor of love, and I commend Gauntlet Press for their work on unearthing these gems, and sharing them with Bradbury collectors." -- Squib Central

"For those readers who are already familiar with and enjoy Bradbury’s fiction, The Bullet Trick is a must read filled with original material being seen and available for reading for the very first time, and which showcase author Bradbury at the height of his creative powers." -- HorrorWorld

"Editor Donn Albright has compiled an astonishing collection of previously unpublished materials from one of the world's most renowned authors of science fiction and fantasy." -- Creature Feature

Ray Bradbury 

Ray Douglas Bradbury (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), "The Veldt", and The October Country (1955). 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".