Description

Bantam Books [Published Date: 1959]. Paperback, 184 pp. First Bantam paperback edition. In acceptable+ condition. Pictorial paper covers have light bumping and creasing to edges and corners with a bit of peeling to the corner tips. Light overall scuffing, aging and soiling to covers as well. First page is starting to separate at the top of the page from the rest of the binding but is still attached. Previous owner's name and address in ink on inside of front cover. Otherwise, pages are lightly aged but unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. A good reading copy. [From back cover] You do things and you don't watch . . . then all of a sudden you look at what your [sic] doing and it's like the first time. It happens to everyone at least once. And while it lasts the ordinary business of living becomes a magical series of discoveries and revelations. It happened to Douglas Spaulding the summer he was twelve, the summer he discovered, "I'm alive!" and yelled it loud by silent a dozen times. "In Dandelion Wine the essence of summer pours gold and glowing from the presses of Mr. Bradbury's expansive imagination adn broad compassion."