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Ray (raymond Douglas) Bradbury

Male : Science fiction Novelist
Nationality : American Place of Birth : Illinois

Date of Birth : 1920

Education : Los Angeles HS
1947-1950
Dark Carnival
(1947 Arkham House) - 300 copies printed
(1948 Hamish Hamilton) - Michael Ayrton d/w
The Meadow
(1948 Dodds Mead) - in Best One-Act Plays of 1947-8
The Martian Chronicles
(1950 Doubleday) (1952 Hart-Davis as 'The Silver Locusts')

1951-1955
The Illustrated Man
(1951 Doubleday) (1952 H-D)
[Filmed in 1969]
The Golden Apples of the Sun
(1953 Doubleday) (1953 Hart-Davis 10/6) (1990 Heinemann)
Fahrenheit 451
(1953 Ballantine US) - pb
Fahrenheit 451
(1953 Ballantine) - Ltd Ed, signed, asbestos boards 200
Fahrenheit 451
(1954 Hart-Davis)
[Filmed in 1966. The 451 relates to the temperature at which paper burns]
The October Country
(1955 Ballantine) (1956 H-D)
Switch on the Night
(1955 Pantheon) (1955 Hart-Davis) - Madeline Gekiere

1956-1960
(Ed) The Circus of Dr Lao and Other Improbable Stories (1956)
Dandelion Wine
(1957 Doubleday) (1957 H-D)
A Medicine for Melancholy
(1959 Doubleday) (1959 H-D as"The Day it Rained Forever')

1961-1965
The Small Assassin
(1962 NEL, UK)
Something Wicked This Way Comes
(1962 Simon & Schuster) (1963 H-D)
[Filmed in 1983]
R is for Rocket
(1962 Doubleday) (1968 H-D)
The Anthem Sprinters & Other Antics
(1963 Dial Press)
The Machineries of Joy
(1964 S & S) (1964 H-D)
The Vintage Bradbury
(1965 Random House)
The Autumn People
(1965 Ballantine) - pb strip cartoons
Tomorrow Midnight
(1965 Ballantine) - pb strip cartoons

1966-1970
Twice Twenty-Two
(1966 Doubleday)
The Day it Rained Forever
(1966 French, US)
S is for Space
(1966 Doubleday) (1968 H-D)
The Pedestrian
(1966 French, US)
I Sing the Body Electric
(1969 Knopf) (1970 H-D)
Teacher's Guide : Science Fiction
(1969 Bantam) - with Lewy Olfson
Bloch and Bradbury
(1969 Tower, US) - with Robert Bloch
Fever Dreams & Other stories
(1970 Sphere) - pb with Robert Bloch

1971-1975
Old Ahab's Friend
(1971 Squires US) - Ltd Ed
The Hallowe'en Tree
(1972 Knopf) (1973 H-D MacGibbon)
When Elephants Last in the Dooryard Boomed
(1972 Knopf) (1975 H-D)
The Wonderful Ice-Cream Suit & Other Plays
(1972 Bantam) (1973 H-D)
Mars and the Mind of Man
(1973 Harper)
Zen and the Art of Writing, and The Joy of Writing
(1973 Capra Press)
That Son of Richard III
(1974 PP in US) - Ltd Ed
Selected Stories
(ed by Anthony Adams) (1975 Harrap)
Pillar of Fire & Other Plays of Today, Tomorrow & Beyond Tomorrow
(1975 Bantam)

1976-1980
Long After Midnight
(1976 Knopf) (1977 Hart-D MacGibbon)
The Best of Bradbury
(1976 Bantam, US)
Where Robot Mice and Robot Men Run Round in Robot Towns
(1977 Knopf) (1979 Granada)
Twin Hieroglyphs That Swim the River Dust
(1978 Lord John Press) - Ltd Ed
The Bike Repairman
(1978 LJP) - Ltd Ed
The Mummies of Guanajuato
(1978 Abrams US) - photographs by Archie Liebermann
Beyond 1984
(1979 Targ) - 350 signed
The Author Considers His Resources
(1979 LJP) - Ltd Ed
The Aqueduct
(1979 Squires) - Ltd Ed
To Sing Strange Songs
(1979 Wheaton)
The Stories of Ray Bradbury
(1980 Knopf) (1980 Granada - 2 vol pb)
The attic Where the Meadow Greens
(1980 LJP) - Ltd Ed
The Last Circus and The Electrocution
(1980 Lord John Press, US)
Flatland : A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott
(intro by Bradbury)
(1980 Arion Press) - Ltd Ed

1981-1990
The Ghosts of Forever
(1981 Rizzoli US)
The Haunted Computer and the Android Pope
(1981 Knopf) (1981 Granada)
Fahrenheit 451
(1982 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 200 signed by Bradbury & Joe Mugnaini
The Complete Poems of Ray Bradbury
(1982 Ballantine)
Dinosaur Tales
(1983 Batnam US) - pb
The Love Affair
(1983 LJP) - Ltd Ed
Forevere and the Earth
(1984 Croissant US) - Ltd Ed
A Memory for Murder
(1984 Dell, US) - pb
The Novels of Ray Bradbury
(1984 Granada)
Los Angeles
(1984 Skyline Press, US) - photographs by West Light
Orange County
(1985 Skyline Press) - photographs by Bill Ross, et al
The Art of 'Playboy'
(1985 Playboy Press)
Death is a Lonely Business
(1985 Knopf) (1986 Grafton)
The Toynbee Convector
(1988 Knopf) (1989 Grafton)
A Graveyard for Lunatics
(1990 Knopf) (1990 Grafton)

READING
The Bradbury Chronicles by George Edgar Slusser
(1977 Borgo Press)
A Ray Bradbury File by Bill Setvenson
(1977 Blackie)
Ray Bardbury
(Writers of the Twenty-First Century Series) (1980 Taplinger US/ Harris UK)



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