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I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC!, INSCRIBED BY RAY BRADBURY

BRADBURY, Ray.  I Sing the Body Electric! New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. 

First edition, warmly inscribed by the author, “Deedee! & Bill! Good wishes & thanks from Ray Bradbury, Jan. 1970.”

In addition to the title story (which Bradbury had earlier adapted for “The Twilight Zone” in 1962), this collection includes the memorable Civil War tale “Downwind from Gettysburg,” a visit to Bradbury’s unique vision of the Red Planet in “The Lost City of Mars” and his poetic response to the Apollo 8 lunar orbit, “Christus Apollo” (a text famed composer Jerry Goldsmith set to music in 2002). “A nice array of Bradbury’s work from the 1940s to the 1970s, with some straight science fiction mixed with more lighthearted fare” (Library Journal).

Book with light fading to edges of cloth. A fine inscribed copy.