{"product_id":"ray-bradbury-the-illustrated-man-1951-book-club-edition-hardcover-dj-brodart","title":"Ray Bradbury The Illustrated Man 1951 Book Club Edition Hardcover DJ Brodart","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;\"\u003eThe Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury — 1951 Doubleday Book Club Edition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;\"\u003eA vintage hardcover edition of one of Ray Bradbury's most important works, published by Doubleday \u0026amp; Company in 1951.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;\"\u003e- Good hardcover with solid binding and structure\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;\"\u003e- No marginalia or dog-eared pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;\"\u003e- Previous owner's name on front endpage\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;\"\u003e- Pages retain the distinctive red top stain\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;\"\u003e- Dust jacket protected in a new clear archival-quality Brodart wrapper\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;\"\u003e- Book Club Edition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;\"\u003e- Publisher: Doubleday \u0026amp; Company\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;\"\u003e- Publication year: 1951\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;\"\u003eIn The Illustrated Man, Bradbury transforms the human body into a storytelling device. A mysterious man's skin is covered with elaborate illustrations that seem to move and come alive, each revealing a different story of humanity's possible future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;\"\u003eThe premise gives the collection an unusual philosophical dimension: What do the marks we place on a body communicate about identity, memory and experience? And what happens when those marks begin telling stories of their own?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;\"\u003eAcross eighteen interconnected stories, Bradbury explores technology, loneliness, prejudice, parenthood, mortality, fear and humanity's tendency to create things it cannot fully control.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;\"\u003e“The Veldt”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;\"\u003eOne of the collection's most famous stories, “The Veldt,” follows a family living in a technologically automated home where a virtual nursery can transform children's thoughts into astonishingly realistic environments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;\"\u003eWhen their children become obsessed with an African veldt populated by lions, the parents begin to realize that the technology designed to make family life easier may have replaced something much more important.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;\"\u003eWritten in 1950, “The Veldt” feels strikingly modern. Bradbury was asking questions decades before smartphones, virtual reality and AI: What happens when technology becomes more compelling than the people around us? What happens when parents surrender too much authority to the machines created to serve them?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;\"\u003eCensorship \u0026amp; Literary Importance\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;\"\u003eBradbury became one of America's most influential voices on censorship and intellectual freedom. While Fahrenheit 451 is the work most closely associated with that legacy, stories by Bradbury—including works collected in The Illustrated Man—have also generated controversy in schools and educational settings over violence, language, racial themes and disturbing subject matter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;\"\u003eFirst published in 1951, The Illustrated Man helped establish Bradbury as a writer who could use science fiction for something larger than predicting future technology. His imagined worlds became vehicles for examining very human questions about freedom, responsibility, relationships and the consequences of our choices.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;\"\u003eWhy Collectors Seek It\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;\"\u003eEarly Doubleday editions of The Illustrated Man are desirable pieces of mid-century American science-fiction history, particularly for collectors of Ray Bradbury and classic speculative literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;\"\u003eThe collection contains several of Bradbury's enduring stories, including “The Veldt,” “Kaleidoscope,” “The Long Rain,” “The Rocket,” “Zero Hour,” and “The Last Night of the World.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;\"\u003eThis 1951 Doubleday Book Club Edition offers an affordable way to own an early vintage edition of a Bradbury classic rather than a modern reprint. The surviving dust jacket is additionally protected in a new archival-quality Brodart wrapper for preservation and display.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"KS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44404043317382,"sku":"318773329261","price":95.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1951\/6595\/files\/57_becad121-5e5a-479f-91af-be8dc5c3fe66.jpg?v=1790029005","url":"https:\/\/karenstrum.com\/products\/ray-bradbury-the-illustrated-man-1951-book-club-edition-hardcover-dj-brodart","provider":"Karen Strum","version":"1.0","type":"link"}