Student Loans, schmudent loans... I want this.Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury, with Fireproof Binding. Only $11,444.17. Think I can get it for 5,737 payments of only $19.95?
First edition. Limited issue, number 193 of 200 copies specially bound in "Johns-Manville Quinterra, an asbestos material with exceptional resistance to pyrolysis" (limitation pages). Signed by the author. A very good copy indeed which shows a little wear to the spine ends and slight dustiness to the spine and outside edge of the front board. A generally clean and well preserved example. The author’s famous novel of censorship and book burning, which takes the form of a futuristic science fiction novel but explores the effects of mass media in the 1950s on literature. It instantly became a cult book and went on to be regarded as a classic of dystopian as well as science fiction. The title famously refers to the temperature at which paper will spontaneously combust, so as a novelty 200 copies of the first edition were issued in a fire retardant binding, and signed by the author. This hardy binding, however, has not generally weathered well, being white and prone to soiling. Clean copies are now scarce.
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