Garden City: Doubleday and Company, 1959. First edition. Signed by Ray Bradbury on the half-title. A Fine copy in like unclipped dust jacket. Ink signature bleeding through a few leaves, otherwise a fresh and clean copy.

In A Medicine for Melancholy, Ray Bradbury presents a collection of short stories that tug at the human imagination. Written after Fahrenheit 451 launched Bradbury to international fame, this novella was praised as having intense emotional impact. “Regardless of the outer wrappings or inner core of his story, Bradbury’s touch breathes fantasy into his most prosaic items” (Galaxy Magazine, 1959). Within the stories, Bradbury weaves science fiction with tall tales and challenges our perceptions of reality. Fine in Fine dust jacket. (Item #7577)