Dandelion Wine: A Novel
Publication: New York: Doubleday & Company, 1957. First 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.
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Edition + Condition: First edition (stated). A very good to near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with a small snag on the bottom edge, light wear at the spine ends, and a vertical crease to the back panel from re-centering the jacket. This copy is inscribed, "Pat! Ray Bradbury. Oct. 1 1983."
This copy comes from the collection of Tom Garner and is housed in one of his distinctive black-cloth clamshell boxes.
Item No: #49185
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