Death Is A Lonely Business.

BRADBURY, Ray.

$75.00

Item Number: 147071

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1985.

Signed limited first edition of this classic murder mystery, privately printed exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society. Octavo, bound in full top-grain leather with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, gilt decoration to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, silk ribbon laid in, marbled endpapers, double-page spread frontispiece by Gary Kelley specially commissioned by The Franklin Press for this first edition. Signed by Ray Bradbury on the front flyleaf. In fine condition.

Ray Bradbury, the undisputed Dean of American storytelling, dips his accomplished pen into the cryptic inkwell of noir and creates a stylish and slightly fantastical tale of mayhem and murder set among the shadows and the murky canals of Venice, California, in the early 1950s. "Blending hard-boiled detective fiction with beautiful descriptions of this strange Californian town, Death Is a Lonely Business is well worth investigating" (Dick Adler).