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Dandelion Wine: A Novel
Publication: London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. First British edition.
Notes: A novel set in 1928, the first of Bradbury's Greentown series. "Dandelion Wine... features Douglas Spaulding, a 12-year-old boy experiencing a transitional summer in which the loss of a friend, an acquaintance with death, and his own changing outlook on life irrevocably close the door of childhood behind him and set him on the path of adulthood... The fantasy of this novel is limited almost exclusively to Douglas's imaginative transformations."—Clute and Grant, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy.
On David Pringle's list of the 100 best fantasy novels, 1946–1987.
184 pages. Burgundy cloth stamped in silver on the spine.
Edition + Condition: First UK edition (first printing, with no later printings noted). A near fine copy (bookseller's label on pastedown) in a very good dust jacket missing small chips from the edges and tanned at the spine, as usual. This copy is signed by the author in Sharpie, "Ray Bradbury 6/26/96." Housed in a custom black-cloth clamshell box commissioned by the Bradbury collector Tom Garner.
Item No: #364413
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