Dust jacket has been slightly trimmed at corners not affecting the price of '$2.75' (therefore, first state) with slight rubbing and a few minute tears at extremities of the very good or better jacket. Three were filmed as The Illustrated Man by Jack Smight in 1968' (p.152). 1952 UK), in which the tales are given a linking framework they are all seen as magical tattoos which, springing from the body of the protagonist, become living stories. 1951 with 2 stories added and 4 deleted, rev.

They began with The Illustrated man (coll. According to Clute & Nicholls, Encyclopedia of SF: 'RB's vintage years are normally thought to be 1946-55, his short-story collections of that period are certainly superior to those he produced later. 23, 72.' This third collection of short stories by the great Sci-Fi author includes 'Prologue: The Illustrated Man,' 'The Long Rain,' 'Zero Hour,' 'The Velt,' and 'Kaleidoscope,' among several other titles. Item #323 Rare copy of Ray Bradbury's important collection of stories with his amusing SELF PORTRAIT/CARICATURE inscribed to 'Joel!' by the author dated Oct. SIGNED, dated, & Illustrated with a CARICATURE of himself by the Author 8vo, beige buckram, red pictorial dust jacket, 251 + pages. This is a kaleidoscopic blending of magic, imagination, and truth, widely believed to be one of the grandmaster's premier accomplishments: as exhilarating as interplanetary travel, as maddening as a walk in a million-year rain, and as comforting as simple, familiar rituals on the last night of the world.Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1951. Here living cities take their vengeance, technology awakens the most primal natural instincts, Martian invasions are foiled by the good life and the glad hand, and dreams are carried aloft in junkyard rockets.

The images, ideas, sounds, and scents that abound in this phantasmagoric sideshow are provocative and powerful: the mournful cries of celestial travelers cast out cruelly into a vast space of stars and blackness, the sight of gray dust settling over a forgotten outpost on a road that leads nowhere, the pungent odor of Jupiter on a returning father's clothing.

The Illustrated Man is classic Bradbury, a collection of eighteen startling visions of humankind's destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin, visions as keen as the tattooist's needle and as colorful as the inks that indelibly stain the body.

The illustrated man stories