BRADBURY, Ray (1920-2012). Dark Carnival. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1947. 8vo. [314] pp. Original black cloth; original unclipped (?$3.00?) dust jacket (cloth a bit rubbed, minor offsetting to endleaves; jacket spine a bit toned, some edgewear, faint chipping to jacket spine, light edgewear, foxing to jacket edges). Very good. FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR?S FIRST BOOK, WITH A SIGNED INDEX CARD BY BRADBURY LAID-IN. With a laid-in COA card by A. A. H. Autographs. ?His best work, from the beginning, has been his fantasy? and his best fantasy has been his horror stories. As previously mentioned, the best of the early Bradbury was collected in [this work]. No easily obtainable edition of this work, The Dubliners of American fantasy fiction, is available? Included are such short Bradbury classics of gut-chilling horror as ?The Jar?, ?The Crowd?, and the unforgettable ?Small Assassin?? (Stephen King in Danse Macabre). Bleiler, Supernatural Fiction 254; Currey, p. 55; Jaffery 27.