BRADBURY, Ray (b. 1920). The Martian Chronicles. Garden City: Country Life Press for Doubleday and Co., 1950. 8°. Original green cloth, spine lettered in purple (slight fading), dust-jacket by Lidov with portrait of the author (spine sunfaded and chipped and with tape reinforcement on verso, corners chipped). Provenance: SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on front blank -- Richard M. Lackritz (purchased from Eldon P. Steeves 1982 and sold Christie's NY, 8 April 2003, lot 80).
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BRADBURY, Ray (b. 1920). The Martian Chronicles. Garden City: Country Life Press for Doubleday and Co., 1950. 8°. Original green cloth, spine lettered in purple (slight fading), dust-jacket by Lidov with portrait of the author (spine sunfaded and chipped and with tape reinforcement on verso, corners chipped). Provenance: SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on front blank -- Richard M. Lackritz (purchased from Eldon P. Steeves 1982 and sold Christie's NY, 8 April 2003, lot 80).

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BRADBURY, Ray (b. 1920). The Martian Chronicles. Garden City: Country Life Press for Doubleday and Co., 1950. 8°. Original green cloth, spine lettered in purple (slight fading), dust-jacket by Lidov with portrait of the author (spine sunfaded and chipped and with tape reinforcement on verso, corners chipped). Provenance: SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on front blank -- Richard M. Lackritz (purchased from Eldon P. Steeves 1982 and sold Christie's NY, 8 April 2003, lot 80).
FIRST EDITION of Bradbury's second collection of stories concerning some of the early arrivals on the red planet Mars, in first state green binding. Published in England by Hart-Davis as The Silver Locusts, 1951. Currey p. 56.
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