THE DAY IT RAINED FOREVER [with] A MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY

First edition. Signed by the author. Limited edition. Two volumes. Publisher's original blue and black cloth with white and yellow titles to the spine, in the Tomislav Tikulin illustrated dustwrapper, housed in the black cloth slipcase. Illustrated throughout in black and white by Tomislav Tikulin. A fine set, the bindings square and firm, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine dustwrappers that are free from fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped ($250 to the rear flap). With the fine, structurally sound slipcase.

Issued in a 'deluxe' edition of 100 sets of which this is numbered 82 and signed by the author Ray Bradbury in red ink and Caitlin R Kiernan, who contributes the introduction, in black ink on the limitation page of 'The Day it Rained Forever'. 'A Medicine for Melancholy' was only available with this edition of 100 slipcased sets. 'The Day it Rained Forever' was originally published in 1959 as 'A Medicine for Melancholy' in the US and as 'The Day it Rained Forever' in the UK. The British edition, published by Rupert Hart-Davis, omitted 'A Medicine for Melancholy', 'The First Night of Lent', 'All Summer in a Day' and 'The Great Collision of Monday Last' replacing them with 'Referent', 'Almost the End of the World', 'Here There by Tygers', 'Perchance to Dream' and 'And the Rock Cried Out'. Additionally the story 'The Shoreline at Sunset' is titled 'The Sunset Harp' in the UK edition (publisher's blurb).