BRADBURY Ray
Fahrenheit 451. [First UK Edition]. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO TIM SANDEMAN
Hart-Davis,, 1954. 8vo., First Edition thus; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, top and fore-edges very lightly mottled else a very good, bright, clean copy. A PRESENTATION COPY TO TIM SANDEMAN WITH THE AUTHOR'S SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION DATED 1954 ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. With the splendid pictorial bookplate of Timothy Sandeman on front paste-down. One of the great dystopian novels, first published in the US in the previous year. It is the basis of Truffaut's first English-language feature film (1966) starring Oskar Werner and Julie Christie. PRESENTATION COPIES, AS DISTINCT FROM MERELY SIGNED COPIES, ARE RARE. A SPLENDID ASSOCIATION COPY
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