THE MACHINERIES OF JOY

First illustrated edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Limited edition. Publisher's original Joe Mugnaini illustrated boards, in the matching dustwrapper. Red cloth slipcase with titles in gilt to the backstrip. Illustrated throughout by Joe Mugnaini. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears. Housed in the fine, structurally sound slipcase.

Issued in a limited edition of 200 copies, of which this example is numbered 196 and signed by Ray Bradbury in red ink on the illustrated limitation page. There was also a unsigned trade edition of 500 copies published simultaneously. A collection of 21 short stories, first published without illustrations by Simon and Schuster in 1964.