Atlanta, GA: Turner Publishing, Inc., 1992. First Separate Edition. First illustrated edition of Bradbury's time-travel story, first published in the pages of Playboy in 1984. During their decades-long friendship and correspondence, the two men were diligent about inscribing and exchanging books with each other. Safire deeply admired Bradbury's writing, notably... More about THE TOYNBEE CONVECTOR - INSCRIBED TO WILLIAM SAFIRE
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. First U.K. Edition. An association copy of the highest quality, inscribed to Bradbury's long-time friend, mentor, and literary agent Forrest Ackerman. It was Ackerman who introduced a teenage Bradbury to the Los Angeles Science Fiction Society, published Bradbury's first story in his fanzine Imagination, and who... More about DANDELION WINE - INSCRIBED TO FORREST J. ACKERMAN
New York: Random House, 1939. First Edition. Superb association copy of Anderson's hard-hitting play, inscribed to Bella Muni, whose husband Paul Muni starred in the Broadway play version of Key Largo, which ran for 105 performances at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre between November 27, 1939 and February 24, 1940. Basis... More about KEY LARGO: A PLAY IN A PROLOGUE AND TWO ACTS - INSCRIBED TO BELLA MUNI
Madison, WI: The Red Ozier Press, 1978. First Edition. Chapbook containing two poems which first appeared in Gay Sunshine, "I Lay Love On My Knee" and "Love Replies." Printed for the benefit of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado. Association copy, inscribed... More about CARELESS LOVE - INSCRIBED TO JONATHAN WILLIAMS
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. First Edition. Attractive association copy of this early collection of Bradbury's space-themed poetry. During their decades-long friendship and correspondence, Safire reviewed Bradbury's Zen and the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity for his New York Times column "On Language," and frequently cited Bradbury's work... More about WHERE ROBOT MICE AND ROBOT MEN RUN ROUND IN ROBOT TOWNS: NEW POEMS, BOTH LIGHT AND DARK -...
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1902. First Tauchnitz Edition. Wells's ninth novel, narrating a journey to the moon by a businessman and an eccentric scientist, who encounter a sophisticated civilization of insect-like creatures they call "Selenites," who take them captive underground. A distinguished copy, from the estate of Pulitzer Prize-winning author William... More about THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON - WILLIAM SAFIRE'S COPY, SIGNED BY NEIL ARMSTRONG