Bradbury: An Illustrated Life
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine, Slipcase: Near Fine. 2004. Donald M Grant. Heavily Illustrated. Signed Limited Edition.
Signed by Ray Bradbury and Jerry West. Limited signed edition of 350 copies of which this is number 63.
Donald M Grant Publishers 2004. Ray Bradbury "An Illustrated Life: A Journey To Far Metaphor". Deluxe tray-cased signed limited edition of only 350 produced. This edition contains “The Ghosts of Forever”, a previously unpublished film script by Bradbury illustrated with 83 story boards by Joseph Mugnani as well as 16 illustrations done by Ray Bradbury in 1949 originally meant to accompany his children’s book “switch on the night” which was not published until 1955.
Luxuriously bound in a snake skin like textured bright blue cloth with silver stamped lettering and ghostly figures. Pictorial end leaves. Volume is housed in a similar clamshell case with velour lining.
- Signed by Ray Bradbury and Jerry Weist
- 195 pages
- 10.5 x 12.5 inches.
- Sealed (New without flaws)
A sumptuous survey of the life and career of Ray Bradbury (1920-2012), focusing on his connections to media - pulps, radio, theater, film, television, and visual art. By Bradbury's own admission, he was influenced by movies from the age of three, and the book traces the shape of this influence through his long career. It also tracks how the visual media have represented Bradbury's work, ranging from the fanzine drawings that appeared before World War II, through the covers of the magazines in which his short stories were published and illustrations for the stories themselves, to the jacket art for nearly 50 years of hardcover and paperback books. Includes an introduction by Bradbury and a plethora of illustrations, most in full color.
Jerry Weist has put together a one-of-a-kind celebration of life, career, and genius of one of America's most beloved literary giants. Complete with hundreds of magazine illustrations, movie stills and posters, comic book art, book jackets, and paintings that trace Bradbury's journey through the twentieth century into the twenty-first.
The Grant edition contains THE GHOSTS OF FOREVER, a previously unpublished film script by Ray Bradbury illustrated with 83 story boards by Joseph A. Mugnani, as well as 16 illustrations done by Ray Bradbury in 1949 to accompany the original manuscript of his children's book SWITCH ON THE NIGHT which was not published until 1955.