The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury [1966 PAPERBACK]

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

VINTAGE PAPERBACK [1966] BANTAM BOOKS

12th Bantam Printing.  

Vintage paperback in excellent condition.  Clean, tight and unread copy.

 Minor shelf wear to cover / corners.   Small water stain to text block, not visible on interior pages [see last photo.]  Reads as new with tanning to pages.

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