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Bullet Trick by Ray Bradbury (Gauntlet Press, November 2009, 978-1-934267-10-3, $85.00, 412pp, hc, oc)     Collection of seven teleplays by Bradbury, two of them never-produced episodes for The Twilight Zone, plus two prose adaptations by Bradbury written after the teleplays. Includes reproductions of correspondence/contracts for a number of the scripts. This is a signed limited edition of 500; a lettered, traycased edition of 52 ($300.00) adds the teleplay for I Sing the Body Electric. Details taken from online listing. · The Bullet Trick · Ray Bradbury · pl · Christmas · Ray Bradbury · pl · Tunnel to Yesterday · Ray Bradbury · pl · The Jail · Ray Bradbury · pl · Dial Double Zero · Ray Bradbury · pl · Here There Be Tygers · Ray Bradbury · pl · A Miracle of Rare Device · Ray Bradbury · pl · Hand in Glove · Ray Bradbury · sa; adaptation of The Jail. · The Bullet Trick · Ray Bradbury · sa · I Sing the Body Electric · Ray Bradbury · pl; in traycased edition only.

The Cat’s Pajamas by Ray Bradbury (HarperCollins/Morrow, July 2004, 0-06-058565-X, $24.95, 234 + xixpp, hc, oc, cover by Ray Bradbury)     Original collection of 22 stories, one a “story-poem,” two reprints. xiii · Alive and Kicking and Writing · Ray Bradbury · in 1 · Chrysalis · Ray Bradbury · ss 15 · The Island · Ray Bradbury · ss 29 · Sometime Before Dawn · Ray Bradbury · ss 41 · Hail to the Chief · Ray Bradbury · ss 55 · We’ll Just Act Natural · Ray Bradbury · ss 65 · Olé, Orozco! Siquieros, Sí! · Ray Bradbury · ss 77 · The House · Ray Bradbury · ss 91 · The John Wilkes Booth/Warner Bothers/MGM/NBC Funeral Train · Ray Bradbury · ss 101 · A Careful Man Dies · Ray Bradbury · ss New Detective Magazine November 1946 123 · The Cat’s Pajamas · Ray Bradbury · ss 133 · Triangle · Ray Bradbury · ss 145 · The Mafioso Cement-Mixing Machine · Ray Bradbury · ss The Strand Magazine #13, June/September 2004 153 · The Ghosts · Ray Bradbury · ss 161 · Where’s My Hat, What’s My Hurry? · Ray Bradbury · ss 167 · The Transformation · Ray Bradbury · ss 177 · Sixty-Six · Ray Bradbury · ss The Strand Magazine #11, 2003 189 · A Matter of Taste · Ray Bradbury · ss It Came from Outer Space by Ray Bradbury, Gauntlet Press, 2004 205 · I Get the Blues When It Rains (A Remembrance) · Ray Bradbury · ss 213 · All My Enemies Are Dead · Ray Bradbury · ss 221 · The Completist · Ray Bradbury · ss 227 · The R.B, G.K.C., and G.B.S. Forever Orient Express · Ray Bradbury · pm

A Chapbook for Burnt-Out Priests, Rabbis and Ministers by Ray Bradbury (Cemetery Dance Publications, 2001, 1-58767-010-0, $25.00, 192pp, hc, co, cover by Phil Parks)     Collection of poetry, essays, and vignettes that have not been previously collected, most reprint but some new for the book. Limited to 1500 copies. Also available in a limited edition of 26 lettered leatherbound, traycased copies signed by the author, with a signed matted full color art print for $275. Also available in a limited edition of 350 signed and numbered slipcased copies bound in leather with additional color artwork for $75. 7 · Preface · Ray Bradbury · pr 11 · They Have Not Seen the Stars · Ray Bradbury · pm The San Diego Union Currents in Books December 17 1978 15 · Shaw! · Ray Bradbury · vi 17 · We Are the Reliquaries of Lost Time · Ray Bradbury · pm Future Life August 1980 21 · Of What Is Past, or Passing, or To Come · Ray Bradbury · pm The Haunted Computer and the Android Pope by Ray Bradbury, Knopf, 1981 23 · The First Book of Dichotomy, The Second Book of Symbiosis · Ray Bradbury · pm 29 · If Only We Had Taller Been · Ray Bradbury · pm Mars and the Mind of Man ed. Bruce Murray, Harper & Row, 1973 33 · Leviathan ’99, Act One, Scene III · Ray Bradbury · vi 35 · Come Whisper Me a Promise · Ray Bradbury · pm 39 · Thoughts on Visiting the Main Rocket Assembly Building at Cape Canaveral for the First Time · Ray Bradbury · pm Friends April 1977 45 · Old Ahab’s Friend, and Friend to Noah, Speaks His Piece · Ray Bradbury · pm Roy Squires Press, 1971 53 · They Have Cut Off the Heads in the Paintings · Ray Bradbury · pm 55 · From Death, The Brightest Seed · Ray Bradbury · pm 57 · Of What Is Past, or Passing, or To Come II · Ray Bradbury · pm Free Space ed. Edward E. Kramer & Brad Linaweaver, Tor, 1997 59 · Troy · Ray Bradbury · pm Death Has Lost Its Charm for Me by Ray Bradbury, Lord John Press, 1987 63 · That Woman on the Lawn · Ray Bradbury · pm Woman’s Day May 1973 67 · The Supper After the Last Supper · Ray Bradbury · pm 71 · If Man Is Dead, Then God Is Slain · Ray Bradbury · pm Santa Susana Press, 1977, as “Man Dead? Then God Is Slain!!” 77 · Eccentrics Must Truly Have Loved God, They Made So Many of Him · Ray Bradbury · pm 79 · Gerard Manley Hopkins · Ray Bradbury · pm 81 · Has Anyone Ever Seen Anyone Reading in the Christian Science Reading Rooms? · Ray Bradbury · pm 85 · What I Do Is Me—For That I Came · Ray Bradbury · pm Where Robot Mice and Robot Men Run Round in Robot Towns by Ray Bradbury, Knopf, 1977 89 · I Carry Always the Invisible · Ray Bradbury · pm 91 · Because of All Those Maggot Bites · Ray Bradbury · pm 95 · Christus Apollo · Ray Bradbury · pm I Sing the Body Electric! by Ray Bradbury, Knopf, 1969 111 · King of Kings: A Screen Finale · Ray Bradbury · pl Bradbury’s version of the last scene, which was not filmed. 119 · Goodbye Means God Be with You · Ray Bradbury · ss 127 · Joy Is the Grace We Say to God · Ray Bradbury · pm The Haunted Computer and the Android Pope by Ray Bradbury, Knopf, 1981 129 · God Blows the Whistle · Ray Bradbury · pm The Haunted Computer and the Android Pope by Ray Bradbury, Knopf, 1981 133 · Go Not with Ruins in Your Mind · Ray Bradbury · pm Chicago Faces January/February 1981 137 · God Is a Child; Put Toys in the Tomb · Ray Bradbury · pm When Elephants Last in the Dooryard Bloomed by Ray Bradbury, Knopf, 1973 141 · God for a Chimney Sweep · Ray Bradbury · pm When Elephants Last in the Dooryard Bloomed by Ray Bradbury, Knopf, 1973 145 · We Are the Carpenters of an Invisible Cathedral · Ray Bradbury · pm (r) as introduction to In the Stream of Stars: The Soviet/American Space Art Book, Workman Publishing, 1990. 147 · Part One: The Reasons Why We Should Go to Space · Ray Bradbury · ar 157 · Part Two: Blueprints for Light-and-Sound at Canaveral; How to Do It · Ray Bradbury · ar 163 · Which Shall It Be? · Ray Bradbury · pm 165 · I Live by the Invisible · Ray Bradbury · pm originally printed as a broadside: “Holiday Greetings 1999 from Maggie and Ray Bradbury”. 169 · G.B.S.: Refurbishing the Tin Woodman; Science Fiction with a Heart, a Brain, and the Nerve! · Ray Bradbury · ar Shaw and Science Fiction ed. Milton T. Wolf, Pennsylvania State University, 1997 181 · Christ on Improbable Planets · Ray Bradbury · ar

Classic Stories 1 by Ray Bradbury (Bantam Spectra, May 1990, 0-553-28637-4, $3.95, 342pp, pb, co, cover by Barclay Shaw)     Collection of 31 stories that originally appeared in The Golden Apples of the Sun and R Is for Rocket. This is a semi-omnibus volume, lacking four stories from The Golden Apples of the Sun and one from R Is for Rocket, four appear in Classic Stories 2. “The Golden Apples of the Sun”, which appeared in both original volumes is not here at all, despite having inspired the cover illustration. 5 · The Fog Horn · Ray Bradbury · ss The Saturday Evening Post June 23 1951, as “The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms” 14 · The April Witch [The Elliott Family] · Ray Bradbury · ss The Saturday Evening Post April 5 1952 25 · The Wilderness [Mars] · Ray Bradbury · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November 1952 revised from Today Apr 6 ’52. 35 · The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl · Ray Bradbury · ss Detective Book Magazine Winter 1948, as “Touch and Go!” 47 · The Flying Machine · Ray Bradbury · ss The Golden Apples of the Sun by Ray Bradbury, Doubleday, 1953 53 · The Murderer · Ray Bradbury · ss The Golden Apples of the Sun by Ray Bradbury, Doubleday, 1953 62 · The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind · Ray Bradbury · ss Epoch Winter 1953 68 · I See You Never · Ray Bradbury · vi The New Yorker November 8 1947 72 · Embroidery · Ray Bradbury · vi Marvel Science Fiction November 1951 77 · The Big Black and White Game · Ray Bradbury · ss The American Mercury August 1945 89 · The Great Wide World Over There · Ray Bradbury · ss Maclean’s August 15 1952, as “Cora and the Great Wide World” 102 · Powerhouse · Ray Bradbury · ss Charm March 1948 112 · En La Noche · Ray Bradbury · ss Cavalier November 1952, as “Torrid Sacrifice” 117 · Sun and Shadow · Ray Bradbury · ss The Reporter March 17 1953 125 · The Meadow · Ray Bradbury · ss The Golden Apples of the Sun by Ray Bradbury, Doubleday, 1953 141 · The Garbage Collector · Ray Bradbury · ss The Golden Apples of the Sun by Ray Bradbury, Doubleday, 1953 147 · The Great Fire [Green Town] · Ray Bradbury · ss Seventeen March 1949 159 · R Is for Rocket · Ray Bradbury · ss Famous Fantastic Mysteries December 1943, as “King of the Gray Spaces” 176 · The End of the Beginning · Ray Bradbury · ss Maclean’s October 27 1956, as “Next Stop: The Stars” 182 · The Rocket · Ray Bradbury · ss Super Science Stories March 1950, as “Outcast of the Stars” 193 · The Rocket Man · Ray Bradbury · ss Maclean’s March 1 1951 205 · A Sound of Thunder · Ray Bradbury · ss Collier’s June 28 1952 219 · The Long Rain · Ray Bradbury · ss Planet Stories Summer 1950, as “Death-by-Rain” 234 · The Exiles · Ray Bradbury · ss Maclean’s September 15 1949, as “The Mad Wizards of Mars” 249 · Here There Be Tygers · Ray Bradbury · ss New Tales of Space and Time ed. Raymond J. Healy, Henry Holt, 1951 263 · The Strawberry Window · Ray Bradbury · ss Star Science Fiction Stories No. 3 ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1955 272 · The Dragon · Ray Bradbury · vi Esquire August 1955 276 · Frost and Fire · Ray Bradbury · nv Planet Stories Fall 1946, as “The Creatures That Time Forgot” 320 · Uncle Einar [The Elliott Family] · Ray Bradbury · ss Dark Carnival by Ray Bradbury, Arkham House, 1947 328 · The Time Machine [Green Town] · Ray Bradbury · ss The Reporter June 2 1955, as “The Last, the Very Last” 336 · The Sound of Summer Running [Green Town] · Ray Bradbury · ss The Saturday Evening Post February 18 1956, as “Summer in the Air”

Classic Stories 1 (var. 1) by Ray Bradbury (Bantam Spectra, 1995, 368pp, pb, co, cover by Barclay Shaw)     For the third printing of this collection by Bantam Spectra, an additional story (“The Golden Apples of the Sun”) was added. · The Fog Horn · Ray Bradbury · ss The Saturday Evening Post June 23 1951, as “The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms” · The April Witch [The Elliott Family] · Ray Bradbury · ss The Saturday Evening Post April 5 1952 · The Wilderness [Mars] · Ray Bradbury · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November 1952 revised from Today Apr 6 ’52. · The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl · Ray Bradbury · ss Detective Book Magazine Winter 1948, as “Touch and Go!” · The Flying Machine · Ray Bradbury · ss The Golden Apples of the Sun by Ray Bradbury, Doubleday, 1953 · The Murderer · Ray Bradbury · ss The Golden Apples of the Sun by Ray Bradbury, Doubleday, 1953 · The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind · Ray Bradbury · ss Epoch Winter 1953 · I See You Never · Ray Bradbury · vi The New Yorker November 8 1947 · Embroidery · Ray Bradbury · vi Marvel Science Fiction November 1951 · The Big Black and White Game · Ray Bradbury · ss The American Mercury August 1945 · The Great Wide World Over There · Ray Bradbury · ss Maclean’s August 15 1952, as “Cora and the Great Wide World” · Powerhouse · Ray Bradbury · ss Charm March 1948 · En La Noche · Ray Bradbury · ss Cavalier November 1952, as “Torrid Sacrifice” · Sun and Shadow · Ray Bradbury · ss The Reporter March 17 1953 · The Meadow · Ray Bradbury · ss The Golden Apples of the Sun by Ray Bradbury, Doubleday, 1953 · The Garbage Collector · Ray Bradbury · ss The Golden Apples of the Sun by Ray Bradbury, Doubleday, 1953 · The Great Fire [Green Town] · Ray Bradbury · ss Seventeen March 1949 · The Golden Apples of the Sun · Ray Bradbury · ss Planet Stories November 1953 · R Is for Rocket · Ray Bradbury · ss Famous Fantastic Mysteries December 1943, as “King of the Gray Spaces” · The End of the Beginning · Ray Bradbury · ss Maclean’s October 27 1956, as “Next Stop: The Stars” · The Rocket · Ray Bradbury · ss Super Science Stories March 1950, as “Outcast of the Stars” · The Rocket Man · Ray Bradbury · ss Maclean’s March 1 1951 · A Sound of Thunder · Ray Bradbury · ss Collier’s June 28 1952 · The Long Rain · Ray Bradbury · ss Planet Stories Summer 1950, as “Death-by-Rain” · The Exiles · Ray Bradbury · ss Maclean’s September 15 1949, as “The Mad Wizards of Mars” · Here There Be Tygers · Ray Bradbury · ss New Tales of Space and Time ed. Raymond J. Healy, Henry Holt, 1951 · The Strawberry Window · Ray Bradbury · ss Star Science Fiction Stories No. 3 ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1955 · The Dragon · Ray Bradbury · vi Esquire August 1955 · Frost and Fire · Ray Bradbury · nv Planet Stories Fall 1946, as “The Creatures That Time Forgot” · Uncle Einar [The Elliott Family] · Ray Bradbury · ss Dark Carnival by Ray Bradbury, Arkham House, 1947 · The Time Machine [Green Town] · Ray Bradbury · ss The Reporter June 2 1955, as “The Last, the Very Last” · The Sound of Summer Running [Green Town] · Ray Bradbury · ss The Saturday Evening Post February 18 1956, as “Summer in the Air”

Classic Stories 2 by Ray Bradbury (Bantam Spectra, May 1990, 0-553-28638-2, $3.95, 341pp, pb, co, cover by Don Maitz)     Collection of 31 stories that originally appeared in A Medicine for Melancholy and S Is for Space. This is a semi-omnibus volume, containing all the stories in the originals plus others, but those that appeared in both volumes only appear once. 3 · In a Season of Calm Weather · Ray Bradbury · ss Playboy January 1957 9 · A Medicine for Melancholy · Ray Bradbury · ss A Medicine for Melancholy by Ray Bradbury, Doubleday, 1959 19 · The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit · Ray Bradbury · ss The Saturday Evening Post October 4 1958, as “The Magic White Suit” 43 · Fever Dream · Ray Bradbury · ss Weird Tales September 1948 51 · The Marriage Mender · Ray Bradbury · ss Collier’s January 22 1954 56 · The Town Where No One Got Off · Ray Bradbury · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1958 65 · A Scent of Sarsaparilla · Ray Bradbury · ss Star Science Fiction Stories ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1953 73 · The Headpiece · Ray Bradbury · ss Lilliput May 1958 82 · The First Night of Lent · Ray Bradbury · ss Playboy March 1956 90 · The Time of Going Away · Ray Bradbury · ss The Reporter November 29 1956 97 · All Summer in a Day · Ray Bradbury · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction March 1954 104 · The Gift · Ray Bradbury · vi Esquire December 1952 107 · The Great Collision of Monday Last · Ray Bradbury · ss Contact #1, 1958 115 · The Little Mice · Ray Bradbury · ss Escapade October 1955, as “The Mice” 121 · The Shoreline at Sunset · Ray Bradbury · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction March 1959 131 · The Day It Rained Forever · Ray Bradbury · ss Harper’s Magazine July 1957 145 · Introduction · Ray Bradbury · in (r) 147 · Chrysalis · Ray Bradbury · nv Amazing Stories July 1946 171 · Pillar of Fire · Ray Bradbury · nv Planet Stories Summer 1948 212 · Zero Hour · Ray Bradbury · ss Planet Stories Fall 1947 223 · The Man · Ray Bradbury · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories February 1949 237 · Time in Thy Flight · Ray Bradbury · ss Fantastic Universe June/July 1953 242 · The Pedestrian · Ray Bradbury · ss The Reporter August 7 1951 247 · Hail and Farewell · Ray Bradbury · ss Today March 29 1953 256 · Invisible Boy · Ray Bradbury · ss Mademoiselle November 1945 266 · Come Into My Cellar · Ray Bradbury · ss Galaxy Magazine October 1962 based on his tv script “Special Delivery,” broadcast on Alfred Hitchcock Presents 11/29/59. 284 · The Million-Year Picnic [Mars] · Ray Bradbury · ss Planet Stories Summer 1946 295 · The Screaming Woman [Green Town] · Ray Bradbury · ss Today May 27 1951 310 · The Smile · Ray Bradbury · ss Fantastic Summer 1952 316 · Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed · Ray Bradbury · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories August 1949, as “The Naming of Names” 332 · The Trolley [Green Town] · Ray Bradbury · ss Good Housekeeping July 1955 337 · Icarus Montgolfier Wright · Ray Bradbury · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction May 1956