The Golden Apples of The Sun.

BRADBURY, Ray. Drawings by Joe Mugnaini.

Item Number: 142334

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1953.

First edition of Ray Bradbury’s fourth book. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Joe Mugniani. Boldly signed by Ray Bradbury on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Joe Mugniani.

An anthology of 22 short stories, The Golden Apples of the Sun includes The Fog Horn, The Flying Machine, Sun and Shadow, and The Exiles. Groff Conklin of Galaxy Science Fiction praised the collection, saying it included "some of the best imaginative stories [Bradbury] or anyone else has ever written. One cannot even begin to describe their delights."