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BRADBURY, Ray (1920-2012). Dark Carnival. London: Hamish Ha...

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BRADBURY, Ray (1920-2012). Dark Carnival. London: Hamish Hamilton, [1948]. 8vo. 271 pp. Original full teal green cloth, spine lettered in silver, publisher?s unclipped (?9s. net?) jacket (cloth spine a bit dull, some rubbing, faint sunning to cloth edges, small tape residue marks on front and rear boards, endleaves and edge of text block foxed; jacket spine toned, chipped, and worn, some edgewear, chipping, front joint torn, panels toned, soiled). A good copy in a fair dust jacket. FIRST BRITISH EDITION OF BRADBURY?S FIRST BOOK, which collects 20 of the 27 stories published in the 1947 Arkham House edition. Bleiler, Supernatural Fiction 254; Currey, p. 55.