Large archive of photocopied typescripts, prepared and bound at the behest of the author
[Ray Bradbury].
142 photocopied typescripts of short stories written by Ray Bradbury prepared and bound at the behest of the author himself in order to keep a few copies of various stages of his stories. When doing so, he typically gave a copy to his long-time friend and principal bibliographer Donn Albright, and in most cases a copy also went to James [Jim] Welsh. Welsh and Albright were working on a bibliography of Bradbury’s work, which never came to fruition. This set of stories comes from the estate of Jim Welsh, and were willed to a bookseller in Rockville, MD. Some of these stories are unpublished. Photocopied 8.5” x 11 sheets bound into blue paper folders with white title labels printed in black to the upper wrappers. All material is photocopied and there are no holographic remarks—some contain ad-hoc title pages that are photocopies derived from a file folder with the title in Bradbury’s hand written on the tab; some titles and word-counts are printed on the letterhead of Bradbury’s agent, Julius Schwartz; some have (photocopied) hand-corrections to the typed text or drawings which were made by Bradbury. Most titles present are unique, with only several in duplicate. Individual folders range from Near Fine to Fine, with slight wear, sunning to several folders. Titles are as follows: …It Too Returned to the Night; A Gift from the People; A Literary Encounter; A Matter of Taste; A Minor Masterpiece; A Noise like Love; A Rocket for the Reverend; A Thousand Times Great Grandma; A Touch of Petulance (Radio Play); A Trip to Cranamocket (The Grand October Excursion or West of October); Fee Fie Foe Fum; Fly Away Home; For Sale: Tomorrow; Free Dirt (The Mound Maker); From Now On--; Gallagher the Great (The Dancing Magician); Grandma and the Gettysburg Address; Grendel, Hallowe’en in July; Have I Got a Chocolate Bar For You; House Divided; I Wonder what’s Become of Sally?; If Paths Must Cross Again; In Search of a Son; In the Eye of the Beholder; Interference; Just in Case;, Just to be Let Alone; Kaleidoscope: A Plat in One Act; Karpwell’s Pyramid; Lafayette Farewell; Lamplight; Lorelei; Lots of Time; Ma Perkins Comes to Stay; Marie Koppee Tee-Ell-Ee-Go-Skee; Massinello Pietro (What Have I Done?; Mechanical Man; Minority Problem; Miss Remembrance; Modern Moral Tales No. 1 “Paul’s Neighbor”; Moment of Spring, Mr. Bacteria (Mister B.); Mr. Electrico; No Hiding Place; None Are So Blind; Noon Conversation;, Number One; O, Time in Thy Flight; Once Upon a Time; One Night in Your Life; One Woman Show (The Magic Lady); Onward, Christian Mama!; Payment in Full; Poor Bob Terle, Did You Hear?; Probability Zero; Quicker than the Eye; R is for Rocket; Rain before Morning; Rapunzel; Referent; Remember Helen Charles; Remember Sascha? (The First Child); Riabouchinska; Search for a Stranger; Several Kinds of Murder; Six Down and Two to Go; Snow; Solution from a Bottle; Some of my Best Friends are Martians; Some Time before Dawn; Some Time before Dawn; Something Suspended; Study in Bronze (Bronze Image); Subterfuge; Ta-ta, Toodle-oo, Goodbye; That’s Me—Third from the Left!; The Finnegan; The Garbage Man; The Gargoyle (Someone in the Rain); The Ghost; The Golden Window; The Great Hand; The Green Machine; The Gull; The House; The Idol; The Insinkerator; The Island; The Last Night of the Old Highway; The Last of a Species; The Little Boy Ran; The Little Boy Ran; The Lonely Ones; The Lonely Places; The Maiden; The Meadow; The Mesa; The Miracles of Jamie; The Mirage; The Mirror; The Mummy; The Murder; The Murderee; The October Game; The Old Mr. Young (The Young Mr. Old); The One who Waits; The Other Highway; The Parallel; The Parrot who Met Papa (Papa from Finca); The Pilgrimage; The Pilgrimage; The Playground; The Poems; The Prisoner; The Pterodactyls; The Quick and the Dead; The Reincarnate; The Revolt of the Pedestrians; The Road to Autumn’s House; The Shadow of Junius C—.; The Shop of the Mechanical Insects; The Sirens; The Sound of Summer Running (The Antelope at Noon); The Spring Day; The Straw; The Surprise; The Tar-Pit Murders; The Theatre; The Tiniest Touch of Petulance; The Transformation [The Negroid Transformation of White Man Tattooed Black); The Troll; Thunder in the Morning; Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright; To Be or Not to Be (The Baby That Would Not be Born); Tonight is Now; Touched with Fire (Fahrenheit 92); Triangle; Troll Charge; Tyrannosaurus Rex; [Untitled]; [Untitled].
Price: $27,500.00