Inscribed by the author to his fine press publisher Herb Yellin on the front endpaper: "For Herb - This "Dandelion Wine" from the vintner himself - Ray Bradbury." Spine ends a little pushed, upper right corner of front board gently tapped (though still sharp), with subtle offsetting from jacket flaps onto endpapers Near Fine, with the topstain bright and unfaded. Octavo (21.5cm) yellow cloth, with titles stamped in gilt and light blue on spine yellow topstain dustjacket ,11-281,pp. A superb association copy, inscribed by Bradbury to his long-time friend and fine press publisher Herb Yellin (1935-2014), who between the 1970's through the early 2000's published many of Bradbury's books and broadsides. Though not strictly fantastic, this poetic blend of nostalgia and ever-so-slightly macabre happenings defines the author's view of the past as a country of the bizarre and the wonderful, and is central to Bradbury's fantasy world" (Barron, Fantasy Literature, 4A-44). The author's second novel, "a bucolic evocation of of Bradbury's youth through rose-colored glasses. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957. Bradbury, Ray DANDELION WINE: A NOVEL - INSCRIBED TO HERB YELLIN
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