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The Martian chronicles / by Ray Bradbury.
LIBRA - Adams Collection SciFi Bradbury, R. 6
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mars (Planet)--Fiction.
- Mars (Planet).
- Life on other planets--Fiction.
- Life on other planets.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 222 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, [between 1980 and 1989?], ©1958.
- Summary:
- For use in schools and libraries only. The tranquility of Mars is disrupted by the men who have come to conquer space, colonize the planet, and escape a doomed Earth.
- Contents:
- Rocket summer
- Ylla
- The summer night
- The Earth men
- The taxpayer
- The third expedition
- And the moon be still as bright
- The settlers
- The green morning
- The locusts
- Night meeting
- The shore
- The fire balloons
- Interim
- The musicians
- The wilderness
- The naming of names
- Usher II
- The old ones
- The Martian
- The luggage store
- The off season
- The watchers
- The silent towns
- The long years
- There will come soft rains
- The million-year picnic.
- Notes:
- "Book club edition."--Jacket.
- Jacket painting by Gary Viskupic.
- First printing has gutter code "S50" (December 1977) on page 222. Known reprint codes: "T51" (December 1978), "W4" (January 1981) [PV2, now with the SFBC # on the back cover]
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Adams Collection copy has dustjacket.
- Adams Collection copy is probably 1980's reprint. Has no gutter code, and the SFBC# is on the back cover.
- Cited in:
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 43911
- ISBN:
- 0385050607
- OCLC:
- 5142079
- Publisher Number:
- 11254 Science Fiction Book Club
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