The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury [TRADE PAPERBACK] 1963 • Time Life

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The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

VINTAGE TRADE PAPERBACK [1963] TIME LIFE BOOKS

Rare vintage deluxe trade paperback with cover art by Marie Jones. Printed on archival quality paper with occasional colored lime green adornments in text.

Book is in excellent condition. Cover is a bit thick and rigid, and has some creasing to edges. Otherwise, clean, tight and seemingly still unread copy.

The Martian Chronicles tells the story of humanity’s repeated attempts to colonize the red planet. The first men were few. Most succumbed to a disease they called the Great Loneliness when they saw their home planet dwindle to the size of a fist. They felt they had never been born. Those few that survived found no welcome on Mars. The shape-changing Martians thought they were native lunatics and duly locked them up.

But more rockets arrived from Earth, and more, piercing the hallucinations projected by the Martians. People brought their old prejudices with them – and their desires and fantasies, tainted dreams. These were soon inhabited by the strange native beings, with their caged flowers and birds of flame. - Bookshop Apocalypse