Ray Bradbury "An Illustrated Life" Traycased Deluxe Signed Limited Edition of 350 [Sealed]

Personally signed by Ray Bradbury and Jerry Weist directly onto the limitation page.

Donald M Grant Publishers 2004. Ray Bradbury "An Illustrated Life: A Journey To Far Metaphor". Deluxe tray-cased signed limited edition of only 350 produced. This edition contains “The Ghosts of Forever”, a previously unpublished film script by Bradbury illustrated with 83 story boards by Joseph Mugnani as well as 16 illustrations done by Ray Bradbury in 1949 originally meant to accompany his children’s book “switch on the night” which was not published until 1955.

Luxuriously bound in a snake skin like textured bright blue cloth with silver stamped lettering and ghostly figures. Pictorial end leaves. Volume is housed in a similar clamshell case with velour lining.

• Signed by Ray Bradbury and Jerry Weist
• 195 pages
• 10.5 x 12.5 inches.
• Sealed (New without flaws)

A sumptuous survey of the life and career of Ray Bradbury (1920-2012), focusing on his connections to media - pulps, radio, theater, film, television, and visual art. By Bradbury's own admission, he was influenced by movies from the age of three, and the book traces the shape of this influence through his long career. It also tracks how the visual media have represented Bradbury's work, ranging from the fanzine drawings that appeared before World War II, through the covers of the magazines in which his short stories were published and illustrations for the stories themselves, to the jacket art for nearly 50 years of hardcover and paperback books. Includes an introduction by Bradbury and a plethora of illustrations, most in full color.

Jerry Weist has put together a one-of-a-kind celebration of life, career, and genius of one of America's most beloved literary giants. Complete with hundreds of magazine illustrations, movie stills and posters, comic book art, book jackets, and paintings that trace Bradbury's journey through the twentieth century into the twenty-first.

The Grant edition contains THE GHOSTS OF FOREVER, a previously unpublished film script by Ray Bradbury illustrated with 83 story boards by Joseph A. Mugnani, as well as 16 illustrations done by Ray Bradbury in 1949 to accompany the original manuscript of his children's book SWITCH ON THE NIGHT which was not published until 1955.


Review

From Publishers Weekly

This coffee table study of the celebrated SF writer focuses on his connections to media-pulps, slicks, radio, theater, film and visual art-and manages to be both gorgeous and highly informative. By Bradbury's own admission, he was influenced by movies from the age of three, and the book traces the shape of this influence through his long career. It also tracks how the visual media have represented Bradbury's work, ranging from the fanzine drawings that appeared before WWII, through the covers of the magazines in which his short stories were published and illustrations for the stories themselves, to the jacket art for nearly 50 years of hardcover and paperback books. Add to that posters and scenes from the many films based on his stories and the diary of making Fahrenheit 451 by director Francois Truffaut-and still there's more. Bradbury, who worked with EC Comics when one of their editors was William Gaines, the future founder of Mad, has had a long association with the stage, and is an above-average artist in his own right, as one short chapter here proves. Weist, a comics expert and artist, has ransacked memories, interviews, correspondences and art collections for the clear text and the well-reproduced artwork in this valuable supplement to other documentation of Bradbury's illustrious career. Color and b&w illustrations throughout.
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About the Author

Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920 - June 5, 2012) was an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Bradbury is credited with writing 27 novels and over 600 short stories. More than eight million copies of his works, published in over 36 languages, have been sold around the world.

Predominantly known for writing the iconic dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953), and his science-fiction and horror-story collections, The Martian Chronicles (1950), The Illustrated Man (1951), and I Sing the Body Electric (1969), Bradbury was one of the most celebrated 20th- and 21st-century American writers. While most of his best known work is in fantasy fiction, he also wrote in other genres, such as the coming-of-age novel Dandelion Wine (1957) and the fictionalized memoir Green Shadows, White Whale (1992).

Bradbury also wrote and consulted on screenplays and television scripts. He wrote the screen play for John Huston's classic film adaptation of Moby Dick, and was nominated for an Academy Award. He adapted sixty-five of his stories for television's The Ray Bradbury Theater, and won an Emmy for his teleplay of The Halloween Tree. He was the recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2004 National Medal of Arts, and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, among many honors.

Upon his death in 2012, The New York Times called Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream." The Los Angeles Times credited Bradbury with the ability "to write lyrically and evocatively of lands an imagination away, worlds he anchored in the here and now with a sense of visual clarity and small-town familiarity." Bradbury's grandson, Danny Karapetian, said Bradbury's works had "influenced so many artists, writers, teachers, scientists, and it's always really touching and comforting to hear their stories". The Washington Post noted several modern day technologies that Bradbury had envisioned much earlier in his writing, such as the idea of banking ATMs and earbuds and Bluetooth headsets from Fahrenheit 451, and the concepts of artificial intelligence within I Sing the Body Electric.