Corgi No. T389.
This edition includes the title novel and a two page "Note to Teachers and Parents" by Richard Tyre.
There were ten printings of this edition through 1973.
A hardcover edition was published by Simon & Schuster in 1967.
This edition contained the full contents of the first edition (novel and two stories) plus a new introduction by Ray Bradbury.
A Special Book Club edition was published in 1976.
A hardcover edition was published by Ballantine under the Del Rey Gold Seal imprint in 1981.
This full-cloth edition was published in dark brown cloth with gold print on spine and cover. Issued without a dust jacket.
This edition contains the title novel and the "Investing Dimes" afterword by Ray Bradbury.
The Limited Editions Club published a hardcover edition in1982.
This edition was issued in a slipcase without a dust jacket. Contains an original lithograph and three fold-out color plates by Joseph Mugnaini.
2000 copies were signed by the author & artist.
A large print cloth edition was published by G K Hall & Co. in 1988.
ISBN No. 0745171060.
A hardcover edition was published by Buccaneer Books in 1995.
This full-cloth edition was published in grey cloth with dark blue lettering on spine. Issued without a dust jacket.
This edition contains the title novel, the "Investing Dimes" afterword by Ray Bradbury, and "Coda" by Ray Bradbury.
ISBN No. 089968484X.
A 40th anniversary cloth edition was published by Simon & Schuster in 1996.
This edition was limited to 7500 copies of which 500 were signed and numbered by the author.
A trade paper edition was published by Ballantine under the Del Rey imprint in 1996.
ISBN No. 0345410017.
The Ballantine mass-market paper edition is currently published under the Del Rey imprint with the ISBN No. 0345342968.
Synopsis:
Fahrenheit 451 is set in a future when the written word is forbidden. Guy Montag is a fireman whose job it is to burn any books that are discovered along with the houses in which they were hidden. Montag enjoys his job and never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce until he meets a young girl who tells him of a past where people didn't live in fear and the written word was legal.Montag secretly begins stealing books before they are destroyed. He meets a professor who agrees to educate him. Montag's pilfering doesn't go unnoticed, and soon he finds himself running for his life!
Excerpt from Fahrenheit 451:
It was a pleasure to burn.It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history. With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange flame with the thought of what came next, he flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black. He strode in a swarm of fireflies. He wanted above all, like the old joke, to shove a marshmallow on a stick in the furnace, while the flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch and lawn of the house. While the books went up in sparkling whirls and blew away on a wind turned dark with burning.
Montag grinned the fierce grin of all men singed and driven back by flame.
He knew that when he returned to the firehouse, he might wink at himself, a minstrel man, burnt-corked, in the mirror. Later, going to sleep, he would feel the fiery smile still gripped by his face muscles, in the dark. It never went away, that smile, it never ever went away, as long as he remembered.
Notes:
A shorter version of Fahrenheit 451 was originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction Vol. 1 No. 5 (Feb. 1951) under the title "The Fireman."
A serialized version of Fahrenheit 451 appeared in the March, April, and May 1954 issues of Playboy.
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