One of 38

Green Shadows, White Whale [1 of 38 in Half-leather]

Bradbury, Ray

Publication: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. First Edition.

Notes: One of 50 signed and numbered copies of Bradbury's novelization of his experience as a young writer working on the Moby-Dick screenplay for John Houston in 1953.

This limited edition is signed on a tipped in page and uses the first edition sheets from Knopf, the trade publisher of this book. The books were bound by Denis Gouey; this is one of 38 in half-leather.

A novel "in which a screenwriter's hope to understand and integrate himself into the life of a small Irish town introduces him to a cast of eccentrics as inscrutable—and often as uncanny—as the Martians of his sf tales."—Clute and Grant, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. Illustrated by Edward Sorrel.

Edition + Condition: First edition (stated), limited issue. A fine copy, signed by Bradbury and numbered 18. This copy is also inscribed to the previous owner, Tom Garner, "Tom! Ray Bradbury." Housed in one of Garner's distinctive black-cloth clamshell boxes.

Item No: #364435

Price: $400