The Halloween Tree RAY BRADBURY SIGNED Mint Gauntlet Press Lettered 1/52 🎃

Description: The Halloween Tree - Lettered Edition This is a near mint Gauntlet Press leather-bound hardback with metal case lettered edition of The Halloween Tree signed by Ray Bradbury. Only 52 of this edition with case were made, and this is letter EE, as pictured. Excellent unread condition, with only noticeable issue being a slight tear to jacket (pictured) which is now in protective cover. Edited by Jon Eller, this signed limited edition will contain a typeset version of Bradbury’s preferred text, the original manuscript (complete with handwritten corrections) Bradbury sent to Knopf, a screenplay Bradbury wrote before he wrote the novel (in manuscript form) and the typeset version of his Hanna-Barbera screenplay. The front and back covers are Bradbury oil paintings of Halloween trees. The dustjacket was designed by Bill Walker and Donn Albright.Table of ContentsIntroductionI. First Revised Screenplay (1967)II. Novel in progress (1971)III. Final Novel Submission (1972)Table of Galley Changes for the First Edition, 1972Notes to the textIV. The Teleplay (1992)V. Companion MaterialsBradbury interview 2004CorrespondenceBradbury’s promotional essayPhotographsBibiograhical checklist This Lettered edition is full of bonus material: several previously unpublished Halloween poems and the previously unpublished short story “The Elevator” (a version was produced for the second incarnation of The Twilight Zone, but the script didn’t adhere to the story). Bradbury drew an original tipsheet drawing which appears in each edition, but on only the Lettered Edition will one find a Bradbury thumbprint on one of the pumpkins.Table of Contents: Lettered Edition OnlyVI. Trick or TreatsWhy Do They Keep Saying “happy Halloween”? (Bradbury essay)Halloween / Halloween 1965 (remembrances in poem/essay form about Bradbury taking his daughters out on HalloweenAttic (one page atmospheric piece)Evening (one page atmospheric piece)“The Elevator” (previously unpublished short story) The Lettered edition is housed in Gauntlet’s first metal traycase, which includes a pop-up Halloween tree taken from Bradbury’s cover art (with pumpkins cut out and dangling like a wind-chime). Each tree is engraved with Bradbury’s signature.The chapbook, available only through Gauntlet is called “Fragments”. It contains fragments of 8 unfinished Bradbury short stories, compiled by Donn Albright and approved by Bradbury, dealing with the Halloween theme. Some are just a paragraph or two, others are longer. Cover art by Bradbury.“Fragments” Table of Contents“This Is The Time Of Year That Carnivals Come”“Halloween”“Hangin’out”“Tell Me A Story”“Shade Of The Old Apple Trees”“The Barber”“Pumpkin’s Eye”“Addams Idea” SHIPPING This will ship insured and via a priority service (likely USPS Priority) to you at no additional expense. I ship globally, but I use the U.S. service which I ship to in Kentucky and it ships out to the Country and uses their services.

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