BRADBURY, Ray. The Silver Locusts. London: Rupert Hart-Davis. 1951. 8vo. First edition, first printing. Publisher’s cream cloth lettered in silver gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket by Roy Sanford. A good copy. The cloth clean, marginal marks to spine tips, and some mild bumps to the corners and tips. The binding tight and very gently rolled, minor. Light offsetting to endpapers with one or two minor marks within, but mostly fine and without stamps, inscriptions, or foxing. The dust jacket the correct first issue with blank rear panel. Unclipped, gently nicked and rubbed to corners and tips, small amount of loss to spine head. Some water staining to verso of spine and lower portion of rear panel, though only noticeable to the rear panel lower portion externally. Altogether quite presentable example of this U.K. edition of stories originally published in the US under the title ‘The Martian Chronicles’, with some alterations.
BRADBURY, Ray. The Silver Locusts. London: Rupert Hart-Davis. 1951. 8vo. First edition, first printing. Publisher’s cream cloth lettered in silver gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket by Roy Sanford. A good copy. The cloth clean, marginal marks to spine tips, and some mild bumps to the corners and tips. The binding tight and very gently rolled, minor. Light offsetting to endpapers with one or two minor marks within, but mostly fine and without stamps, inscriptions, or foxing. The dust jacket the correct first issue with blank rear panel. Unclipped, gently nicked and rubbed to corners and tips, small amount of loss to spine head. Some water staining to verso of spine and lower portion of rear panel, though only noticeable to the rear panel lower portion externally. Altogether quite presentable example of this U.K. edition of stories originally published in the US under the title ‘The Martian Chronicles’, with some alterations.
