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Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales by Ray Bradbury (HarperCollins/Morrow, August 2003, 0-06-054242-X, $29.95, xvii+893pp, hc, co)     Collection of 100 stories from throughout Bradbury’s career. Introduction by Bradbury. xiii · Introduction · Ray Bradbury · in 1 · The Whole Town’s Sleeping [Green Town] · Ray Bradbury · ss McCall’s September 1950 16 · The Rocket · Ray Bradbury · ss Super Science Stories March 1950, as “Outcast of the Stars” 25 · Season of Disbelief [Green Town] · Ray Bradbury · ss Collier’s November 25 1950 33 · And the Rock Cried Out · Ray Bradbury · nv Manhunt September 1953, as “The Millionth Murder” 54 · The Drummer Boy of Shiloh · Ray Bradbury · ss The Saturday Evening Post April 30 1960 59 · The Beggar on O’Connell Bridge · Ray Bradbury · ss The Saturday Evening Post January 14 1961, as “The Beggar on Dublin Bridge” 73 · The Flying Machine · Ray Bradbury · ss The Golden Apples of the Sun by Ray Bradbury, Doubleday, 1953 78 · Heavy-Set · Ray Bradbury · ss Playboy October 1964 86 · The First Night of Lent · Ray Bradbury · ss Playboy March 1956 92 · Lafayette, Farewell · Ray Bradbury · ss The Toynbee Convector by Ray Bradbury, Knopf, 1988 100 · Remember Sascha? · Ray Bradbury · ss Quicker than the Eye by Ray Bradbury, Avon, 1996 107 · Junior · Ray Bradbury · ss The Toynbee Convector by Ray Bradbury, Knopf, 1988 113 · That Woman on the Lawn · Ray Bradbury · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction August 1996 125 · February 1999: Ylla [Mars] · Ray Bradbury · ss Maclean’s January 1 1950, as “I’ll Not Ask for Wine” 136 · Banshee · Ray Bradbury · ss Gallery September 1984 148 · One for His Lordship, and One for the Road! · Ray Bradbury · ss Playboy January 1985 156 · The Laurel and Hardy Love Affair · Ray Bradbury · ss Playboy December 1987 163 · Unterderseaboat Doktor · Ray Bradbury · ss Playboy January 1994, as “Unterseeboot Doktor” 174 · Another Fine Mess · Ray Bradbury · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction April 1995 182 · The Dwarf · Ray Bradbury · ss Fantastic January/February 1954 192 · A Wild Night in Galway · Ray Bradbury · ss Harper’s Magazine August 1959 197 · The Wind · Ray Bradbury · ss Weird Tales March 1943 206 · No News, or What Killed the Dog? · Ray Bradbury · ss American Way October 1 1994 213 · A Little Journey · Ray Bradbury · ss Galaxy Science Fiction August 1951 220 · Any Friend of Nicholas Nickleby’s Is a Friend of Mine · Ray Bradbury · nv McCall’s January 1966, as “The Best of Times” 243 · The Garbage Collector · Ray Bradbury · ss The Golden Apples of the Sun by Ray Bradbury, Doubleday, 1953 248 · The Visitor · Ray Bradbury · ss Startling Stories November 1948 260 · The Man · Ray Bradbury · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories February 1949 271 · Henry the Ninth · Ray Bradbury · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1969, as “A Final Sceptre, a Lasting Crown” 278 · The Messiah · Ray Bradbury · ss Welcome Aboard Spring 1971 287 · Bang! You’re Dead! [Johnny Choir] · Ray Bradbury · ss Weird Tales September 1944 298 · Darling Adolf · Ray Bradbury · ss Long After Midnight by Ray Bradbury, Knopf, 1976 312 · The Beautiful Shave · Ray Bradbury · ss Gallery March 1979 315 · Colonel Stonesteel’s Genuine Home-Made Truly Egyptian Mummy · Ray Bradbury · ss Omni May 1981 328 · I See You Never · Ray Bradbury · vi The New Yorker November 8 1947 331 · The Exiles · Ray Bradbury · ss Maclean’s September 15 1949, as “The Mad Wizards of Mars” 343 · At Midnight, in the Month of June [Green Town] · Ray Bradbury · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #127, June 1954 352 · The Witch Door · Ray Bradbury · ss Playboy December 1995 361 · The Watchers · Ray Bradbury · ss Weird Tales May 1945 375 · 2004-05: The Naming of Names [Mars] · Ray Bradbury · vi The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, Doubleday, 1950 376 · Hopscotch · Ray Bradbury · ss Quicker than the Eye by Ray Bradbury, Avon, 1996 383 · The Illustrated Man · Ray Bradbury · ss Esquire July 1950 394 · The Dead Man · Ray Bradbury · ss Weird Tales July 1945 403 · June 2001: And the Moon Be Still as Bright [Mars] · Ray Bradbury · nv Thrilling Wonder Stories June 1948 426 · The Burning Man · Ray Bradbury · ss Long After Midnight by Ray Bradbury, Knopf, 1976 432 · G.B.S.-Mark V · Ray Bradbury · ss Long After Midnight by Ray Bradbury, Knopf, 1976 442 · A Blade of Grass · Ray Bradbury · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories December 1949 449 · The Sound of Summer Running [Green Town] · Ray Bradbury · ss The Saturday Evening Post February 18 1956, as “Summer in the Air” 454 · And the Sailor, Home from the Sea · Ray Bradbury · ss The Saturday Evening Post January 9 1960, as “Forever Voyage” 461 · The Lonely Ones · Ray Bradbury · ss Startling Stories July 1949 470 · The Finnegan · Ray Bradbury · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction October/November 1996 479 · On the Orient, North [The Elliott Family] · Ray Bradbury · ss The Toynbee Convector by Ray Bradbury, Knopf, 1988 490 · The Smiling People · Ray Bradbury · ss Weird Tales May 1946 498 · The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl · Ray Bradbury · ss Detective Book Magazine Winter 1948, as “Touch and Go!” 508 · Bug · Ray Bradbury · ss Quicker than the Eye by Ray Bradbury, Avon, 1996 515 · Downwind from Gettysburg · Ray Bradbury · ss Playboy June 1969 529 · Time in Thy Flight · Ray Bradbury · ss Fantastic Universe June/July 1953 533 · Changeling · Ray Bradbury · ss Super Science Stories July 1949 539 · The Dragon · Ray Bradbury · vi Esquire August 1955 542 · Let’s Play “Poison” · Ray Bradbury · ss Weird Tales November 1946 547 · The Cold Wind and the Warm · Ray Bradbury · nv Harper’s Magazine July 1964 562 · The Meadow · Ray Bradbury · ss The Golden Apples of the Sun by Ray Bradbury, Doubleday, 1953 576 · The Kilimanjaro Device · Ray Bradbury · ss Life January 22 1965, as “The Kilimanjaro Machine” 585 · The Man in the Rorschach Shirt · Ray Bradbury · ss Playboy October 1966 595 · Bless Me Father, for I Have Sinned · Ray Bradbury · ss Woman’s Day December 11 1984 600 · The Pedestrian · Ray Bradbury · ss The Reporter August 7 1951 604 · Trapdoor · Ray Bradbury · ss Omni April 1985 613 · The Swan [Green Town] · Ray Bradbury · ss Cosmopolitan September 1954 624 · The Sea Shell · Ray Bradbury · ss Weird Tales January 1944 630 · Once More, Legato · Ray Bradbury · ss Omni Fall 1995 639 · June 2003: Way in the Middle of the Air [Mars] · Ray Bradbury · ss Other Worlds Science Stories July 1950 651 · The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone · Ray Bradbury · ss Charm July 1954 661 · By the Numbers! · Ray Bradbury · ss Playboy July 1984 668 · April 2005: Usher II [Mars] · Ray Bradbury · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories April 1950, as “Carnival of Madness” 682 · The Square Pegs · Ray Bradbury · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories October 1948 695 · The Trolley [Green Town] · Ray Bradbury · ss Good Housekeeping July 1955 698 · The Smile · Ray Bradbury · ss Fantastic Summer 1952 703 · The Miracles of Jamie · Ray Bradbury · ss Charm April 1946 711 · A Far-Away Guitar [Green Town] · Ray Bradbury · ss Charm April 1950, as “Miss Bidwell” 720 · The Cistern · Ray Bradbury · ss Mademoiselle May 1947 726 · The Machineries of Joy · Ray Bradbury · ss Playboy December 1962 738 · Bright Phoenix · Ray Bradbury · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction May 1963 745 · The Wish · Ray Bradbury · ss Woman’s Day December 1973 751 · The Life Work of Juan Diaz · Ray Bradbury · ss Playboy September 1963 760 · Time Intervening · Ray Bradbury · ss Epoch Fall 1947, as “Interim” 765 · Almost the End of the World · Ray Bradbury · ss The Reporter December 26 1957 772 · The Great Collision of Monday Last · Ray Bradbury · ss Contact #1, 1958 778 · The Poems · Ray Bradbury · ss Weird Tales January 1945 789 · April 2006: The Long Years [Mars] · Ray Bradbury · ss Maclean’s September 15 1948 799 · Icarus Montgolfier Wright · Ray Bradbury · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction May 1956 803 · Death and the Maiden · Ray Bradbury · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction March 1960 811 · Zero Hour · Ray Bradbury · ss Planet Stories Fall 1947 820 · The Toynbee Convector · Ray Bradbury · ss Playboy January 1984 830 · Forever and the Earth · Ray Bradbury · ss Planet Stories Spring 1950 845 · The Handler · Ray Bradbury · ss Weird Tales January 1947 854 · Getting Through Sunday Somehow · Ray Bradbury · ss Cavalier #112, October 1962, as “Tread Lightly to the Music” 861 · The Pumpernickel [Green Town] · Ray Bradbury · vi Collier’s May 19 1951 865 · Last Rites · Ray Bradbury · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction December 1994 873 · The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse · Ray Bradbury · ss Beyond Fantasy Fiction March 1954 881 · All on a Summer’s Night [Green Town] · Ray Bradbury · ss Today January 22 1950

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