Dark Carnival. London: Hamish, 1948. First UK Edition, first issue. Smooth green cloth boards, title lettered in silver to spine, in publisher’s pictorial dust jacket by artist Michael Ayrton. Light spotting to endpaper, otherwise a very good copy.

Bradbury’s first published work, a collection of short stories. This UK edition is a selection of twenty stories, from the larger US edition published in the same year.