Ray Bradbury -- Recent and Upcoming Books

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Switch on the Night
Ray Bradbury, et al / Library Binding / Expected August 2000
Price: $16.99 Not Yet Published
A young boy who is afraid of the dark embarks on a journey through a magical nightscape, and along the way, he finds tranquility, solace, and comfort in a place where he least expected them.

Switch on the Night
Ray Bradbury, et al / Hardcover / Expected August 2000
Price: $11.21 - Savings of: $3.74 (25%) Not Yet Published
A young boy who is afraid of the dark embarks on a journey through a magical nightscape, and along the way, he finds tranquility, solace, and comfort in a place where he least expected them.

Something Wicked This Way Comes [LARGE PRINT]
Ray Bradbury / Hardcover / Expected March 2000
Price: $26.95 Not Yet Published
Few American novels written this century have endured in th heart and mind as has this one--Ray Bradbury's incomparable masterwork of the dark fantastic. A carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour on a chill Midwestern October eve, ushering in Halloween a week before its time. A calliope's shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. In this season of dying, Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. And two inquisitive boys standing precari...

From the Dust Returned
Ray Bradbury / Hardcover / Expected December 1999
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The Illustrated Man [LARGE PRINT]
Ray Bradbury / Hardcover / Expected June 1999
(Not Yet Published)
Eighteen imaginative science fiction stories--including the title story in which a tattooist's needle creates a canvas that captures humankind's destiny--range from the not-so-ordinary world of middle America to the vast reaches of outer space as they explore themes of love, madness, and death."

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Back There Where the Past Was : A Small-Town Boyhood
Charles Champlin, Ray Bradbury / Paperback / Published December 1999
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Dandelion Wine (G K Hall Large Print Science Fiction Series) [LARGE PRINT]
Marion Zimmer Bradley, Ray Bradbury / Hardcover / Published December 1999
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World-renowned fantasist Ray Bradbury has on several occasions stepped outside the arenas of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. An unabashed romantic, his first novel in 1957 was basically a love letter to his childhood. (For those who want to undertake an even more evocative look at the dark side of youth, five years later the author would write the chilling classic Something Wicked This Way Comes.)

The Illustrated Man
Ray Bradbury / Unknown Binding / Published October 1999
Price: $14.00
Eighteen imaginative science fiction stories--including the title story in which a tattooist's needle creates a canvas that captures humankind's destiny--range from the not-so-ordinary world of middle America to the vast reaches of outer space as they explore themes of love, madness, and death."

The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury / Unknown Binding / Published October 1999
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Before the advent of space flight, Ray Bradbury had humankind cultivating planets. In The Martian Chronicles, humanity discovers an ancient civilization on the verge of ruin. This classic work presents tales of human interaction with one another and with the Martians.

Fahrenheit 451 : Fahrenheit 451--The Temperature at Which Book Paper Catches Fire, and Burns
Ray Bradbury / Unknown Binding / Published October 1999
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In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury's classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen don't put out fires--they start them in order to burn books. Bradbury's vividly painted society holds up the appearance of happiness as the highest goal--a place where trivial information is good, and knowledge and ideas are bad. Fire Captain Beatty explains it this way, Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs.... Don't give them slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.

A Passion for Books : A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Lore, and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring For, and Appreciating Books
Harold Rabinowitz(Editor), et al / Hardcover / Published October 1999
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"When I have a little money, I buy books. And if any is left, I buy food and clothing." --Desiderius Erasmus Those who share Erasmus's love of those curious bundles of paper bound together between hard or soft covers know exactly how he felt. These are the people who can spend hours browsing through a bookstore, completely oblivious not only to the passage of time but to everything else around them, the people for whom buying books is a necessity, not a luxury. A Passion for Books is a celebration of that love, a collection of sixty classic and contemporary essays, stories, lists, poems, quota...

Vintage Bradbury
Ray Bradbury / Unknown Binding / Published October 1999
Price: $21.45 Special Order

Something Wicked This Way Comes
Ray Bradbury / Unknown Binding / Published October 1999
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Few American novels written this century have endured in th heart and mind as has this one--Ray Bradbury's incomparable masterwork of the dark fantastic. A carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour on a chill Midwestern October eve, ushering in Halloween a week before its time. A calliope's shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. In this season of dying, Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. And two inquisitive boys standing precari...

Dandelion Wine
Ray Bradbury / Unknown Binding / Published October 1999
Price: $13.40 Special Order
World-renowned fantasist Ray Bradbury has on several occasions stepped outside the arenas of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. An unabashed romantic, his first novel in 1957 was basically a love letter to his childhood. (For those who want to undertake an even more evocative look at the dark side of youth, five years later the author would write the chilling classic Something Wicked This Way Comes.)

Selected from Dark They Were and Golden-Eyed
Ray Bradbury / Unknown Binding / Published October 1999
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz : The Kansas Centennial Edition
L. Frank Baum, et al / Hardcover / Published October 1999
Price: $18.71 - Savings of: $6.24 (25%) - Ships in 24 hours
A illustrated reissue of a classic American modern fairy tale from the Illustrated Junior Library, with a vibrant new cover, takes us once again to the magical land of the Tinman, the Scarecrow, and the Emerald City.

Green Shadows, White Whale
Ray Bradbury / Unknown Binding / Published October 1999
Price: $18.00 Special Order
Summoned to Ireland to write a screenplay for Moby Dick, a young writer penetrates the enigma of the fog-shrouded land, meeting a cast of brilliant characters, including IRA members, priests, banshees, and others. Reprint. K.

Driving Blind
Ray Bradbury / Unknown Binding / Published October 1999
Price: $14.00 Special Order
A stunning new collection of short fiction by the beloved Dean of American storytellers, Driving Blind takes readers on unforgettable excursions to the fantastic, glorious grand tours through time and memory--interspersed with strange, unexpected side trips to the disturbing and the eerie. Website promo.

Death Is a Lonely Business
Ray Bradbury / Unknown Binding / Published October 1999
Price: $20.30 Back Ordered
The image of drowned circus cages in the trash-filled canals of Venice, California, both haunts and illuminates famed fantasy and science fiction author Ray Bradbury's rare venture into the mystery field. Like filmmaker Federico Fellini, Bradbury is fascinated by the seedy splendor of cheap carnivals and circuses--"a long time before, in the early Twenties, these cages had probably rolled by like bright summer storms with animals prowling them, lions opening their mouths to exhale hot meat breaths. Teams of white horses had dragged their pomp through Venice and across the fields."

Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury / Unknown Binding / Published October 1999
Price: $17.95 Back Ordered
In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury's classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen don't put out fires--they start them in order to burn books. Bradbury's vividly painted society holds up the appearance of happiness as the highest goal--a place where trivial information is good, and knowledge and ideas are bad. Fire Captain Beatty explains it this way, Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs.... Don't give them slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.

I Sing the Body Electric and Other Stories
Ray Bradbury / Unknown Binding / Published October 1999
Price: $18.00 Back Ordered

Golden Apples of the Sun and Other Stories
Ray Bradbury / Unknown Binding / Published October 1999
Price: $18.00 Special Order
One of the most talented and visionary authors of this century, Ray Bradbury has delighted readers for more than 60 years with his tales of the fantastic. Here he is at the height of his powers, displaying a sorcerer's skill with 32 stories originally published in two separate collections. A true master celebrates life and dreams in the unique voice that has favored him across six decades .

Something Wicked This Way Comes (Signed Limited Edition)
Ray Bradbury(Illustrator), Joe Mugnaini (Illustrator) / Hardcover / Published September 1999
Price: $65.95 Special Order

The October Country : By Ray Bradbury ; Illustrated by Joe Mugnaini
Ray Bradbury(Introduction), Joe Mugnaini (Illustrator) / Hardcover / Published September 1999
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The October Country is one of the most important and seminal collections of horror stories of the 20th century. Published in 1955 and composed of 19 stories written for pulp magazines at the very start of his career, these unforgettable, timeless stories have influenced a generation of contemporary writers of fear. This classic collection is actually a revamped version of the author's very first book, Dark Carnival (a much sought-after collector's item--Bradbury withdrew several stories from the original 1947 collection that even he thought too grisly). October Country contains such haunting t...

The Halloween Tree
Ray Bradbury, Joseph Mugnaini (Illustrator) / Paperback / Published September 1999
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"If you want to know what Halloween is, or if you simply want an eerie adventure, take this mystery-history trip. You couldn't have a better guide than Ray Bradbury."--Boston Globe

The Martian Chronicles (G K Hall Large Print Science Fiction Series) [LARGE PRINT]
Ray Bradbury / Hardcover / Published July 1999
Price: $24.95 Back Ordered
Before the advent of space flight, Ray Bradbury had humankind cultivating planets. In The Martian Chronicles, humanity discovers an ancient civilization on the verge of ruin. This classic work presents tales of human interaction with one another and with the Martians.

Something Wicked This Way Comes
Ray Bradbury / Hardcover / Published June 1999
Price: $10.50 - Savings of: $4.50 (30%) - Ships in 24 hours
Few American novels written this century have endured in th heart and mind as has this one--Ray Bradbury's incomparable masterwork of the dark fantastic. A carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour on a chill Midwestern October eve, ushering in Halloween a week before its time. A calliope's shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. In this season of dying, Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. And two inquisitive boys standing precari...

Science Fiction Theater : A Full Cast Production [UNABRIDGED]
Ray Bradbury / Audio Cassette / Published May 1999
Price: $29.95 Special Order

The Ray Bradbury Theater [UNABRIDGED]
Ray Bradbury / Audio Cassette / Published March 1999
Price: $23.96 - Savings of: $5.99 (20%) Back Ordered

The Illustrated Man (G K Hall Large Print Science Fiction Series) [LARGE PRINT]
Ray Bradbury / Hardcover / Published March 1999
Price: $24.95 - Ships in 24 hours
Eighteen imaginative science fiction stories--including the title story in which a tattooist's needle creates a canvas that captures humankind's destiny--range from the not-so-ordinary world of middle America to the vast reaches of outer space as they explore themes of love, madness, and death."

Death Is a Lonely Business
Ray Bradbury / Paperback / Published March 1999
Price: $10.20 - Savings of: $1.80 (15%) - Ships in 24 hours
The image of drowned circus cages in the trash-filled canals of Venice, California, both haunts and illuminates famed fantasy and science fiction author Ray Bradbury's rare venture into the mystery field. Like filmmaker Federico Fellini, Bradbury is fascinated by the seedy splendor of cheap carnivals and circuses--"a long time before, in the early Twenties, these cages had probably rolled by like bright summer storms with animals prowling them, lions opening their mouths to exhale hot meat breaths. Teams of white horses had dragged their pomp through Venice and across the fields."

I Sing the Body Electric
Ray Bradbury / Library Binding / Published February 1999
(Publisher Out Of Stock)

Dandelion Wine : A Novel
Ray Bradbury / Hardcover / Published February 1999
Price: $10.50 - Savings of: $4.50 (30%) - Ships in 24 hours
Twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding knows Green town, Illinois, is as vast and deep as the whole wide world that lies beyond the city limits. It is a pair of brand-new tennis shoes, the first harvest of dandelions for Grandfather's renowned intoxicant, the distant clang of the trolley's bell on a hazy afternoon. It is yesteryear and tomorrow blended into an unforgettable always. But as young Douglas is about to discover, summer can be more than the repetition of established rituals whose mystical power holds time at bay. It can be a best friend moving away, a human time machine who can transport...

Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury / Hardcover / Published January 1999
Price: $9.95 Back Ordered

Ahmed and the Oblivion Machines
Ray Bradbury, et al / Hardcover / Published December 1998
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From Bradbury (for adults, Quicker Than the Eye, 1996, etc.), a fantasy with moments of brilliance swamped by mystical befuddlement. Ahmed, a young boy, gets lost in a sand storm while trekking across the desert with his father's caravan. He stumbles on a gigantic buried statue, which his tears awaken. The statue is an ancient god, Gonn-Ben-Allah, Keeper of the Ghost of Lost Names. Gonn-Ben-Allah takes Ahmed through space and time, tracing the history of human efforts to fly (an analogy for the ability to imagine and invent). Bradbury is at his best when he describes past flyers who tried and ...

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