BRADBURY, Ray (1920-2012). The Golden Apples of the Sun. Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1953. 8vo. [1, blank], [1]-250, [2, blank] pp. Illustrated by Joe Mugnaini. Publisher's gray cloth lettered yellow to spine; original unclipped ("$3.00)" dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, TWICE SIGNED. Bradbury has boldly signed both front flyleaf and title-page in ink. The volume is Bradbury's third collection; two of the stories, "The Fog Horn" and "A Sound of Thunder," have seen filmic adaptations (the first as "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms"), while the titular story and several others were adapted for radio by the BBC. 

Light rubbing and edge wear to wrapper, minor marginal chipping, spine ends worn, light toning. Corners just bumped and rubbed, margins toned. Light toning to endpapers, else near fine.