THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES

First edition with these illustrations. Publisher's original purple cloth illustrated and with titles in silver and red. Illustrated with a frontispiece and eight further full page colour plates by Mick Brownfield. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine original purple card slipcase.

First published in the UK without illustrations under the title 'The Silver Locusts' by Rupert Hart-Davis in 1951. This newly illustrated edition follows the text of the first edition, with minor emendations. Chris Hadfield's eight page introduction is printed here for the first time.