The Machineries of Joy
by Ray Bradbury
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Bantam, 1965. First thus. Mass Paperback. Very Good. First paperback edition. Very good condition. No creases to cover or spine, but there is a small bump near the spine at the top, and another bump at the bottom front edge. Pages tanning on edges, otherwise clean and unmarked. Bantam mass paperback, 1st paperback edition, 1st printing July 1965. Bantam H2988, ISBN: 9780553028348, 213 pages, cover price 60 cents. 12mo (7"" x 4.25"") Paperback reprint of 1964 Simon and Schuster hardcover first edition. Collection of 21 stories: The Machineries of Joy; The One Who Waits; Tyrannosaurus Rex; The Vacation; The Drummer Boy of Shiloh; Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar!; Almost the End of the World; Perhaps We Are Going Away; And the Sailor, Home from the Sea; El Dia de Muerte; The Illustrated Woman; Some Live Like Lazarus; A Miracle of Rare Device; And So Died Riabouchinska; The Beggar on O'Connell Bridge; Death and the Maiden; A Flight of Ravens; The Best of All Possible Worlds; The Lifework of Juan Diaz; To the Chicago Abyss; and The Anthem Sprinters.
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- Bookseller
- Bujoldfan (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 06252104bantamH25288cvm
- Title
- The Machineries of Joy
- Author
- Ray Bradbury
- Format/Binding
- Mass Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First thus
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1965
- Size
- 12mo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Story Collection
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction / Fantasy;
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Bujoldfan
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- Edges
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- 12mo
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