"Fahrenheit 451" 1982 BRADBURY, Ray
$1,200
BRADBURY, Ray
[152] pp.
The Limited Editions Club
1982
11" x 7 1/4"
This copy, number 1189 signed by the author and the illustrator
Illustrated by Joseph Mugnaini
In silver slipcase
Original lithograph Burning Woman page XV
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New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1982. Large octavo, aluminum foil over boards. Limited edition. One of 2000 numbered copies signed by Bradbury and artist Joseph Mugnaini. New foreword and afterword by Bradbury. A short novel expanded from the novella "The Fireman" published in 1951. "While the jet bombers boom overhead and another nuclear war threatens, Americans live a mindless life in a society where everyone is encouraged to lose himself in such distractions as four-wall television, hearing-aid radios, high-speed travel, and group sports. Life is reduced to the paste-pudding norm of a mass audience, for it serves the purpose of the government to keep people from thinking ... The gadget are, of course, marvelous and everywhere, while the greatest enemies of the status quo are books, which, when they are occasionally discovered, are burned by firemen who are, in this fireproof age, no longer needed to put out fires, but to set them ..." - Hillegas, The Future as Nightmare, pp. 158-9. "In a totalitarian state, books are burned and private thought or action is criminal." - Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 159. Filmed in 1966 by Francois Truffaut. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-153. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 8. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 749-55]. A fine copy, no jacket as issued in slipcase