[LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB]. BRADBURY, Ray (1920–2012). The Martian Chronicles. Joe MUGNAINI (1912-1992), illustrator. Avon, CT: The Limited Editions Club, 1974.

4to. Numerous chromolithographed plates, vignettes and head-poieces by Mugnaini and printed by Burr Miller. Publisher's black cloth speckled in silver, edges sprinkled black; glassine (some chipping to edges and spine panel folds); original slipcase.

LIMITED EDITION, number 538 of 2,000 copies, SIGNED BY BOTH BRADBURY AND MUGNAINI. First published in 1950, The Martian Chronicles sold more than 3 million copies by 1979 and upon publication was "embraced by the science-fiction community as well as critics, a rare achievement for the genre. Christopher Isherwood hailed Bradbury as 'truly original' and a 'very great and unusual talent' (Weller). Newman 480; Sam Weller, "Ray Bradbury, the Art of Fiction No. 203, The Paris Review.

Property from the Collection of Robert S. Brown, Cincinnati, Ohio