R IS FOR ROCKET [and] S IS FOR SPACE

First edition with these illustrations. Lettered edition. Signed by the author and the illustrators. Publisher's original pictorial boards, in the Tomislav Tikulin illustrated dustwrapper and Glenn Chadbourne illustrated solander box. Black satin bookmark. With illustrated endpapers by Tomislav Tikulin. Richly illustrated throughout in black and white by Glenn Chadbourne. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents clean and bright throughout and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears. Housed in the fine solander box.

This 'deluxe signed' edition was issued in a limited edition of 26 lettered copies, this example is lettered 'H' and is signed by Ray Bradbury in red ink on a dedicated page between the limitation page and half-title, and by the illustrators Tomislav Tikulin and Glenn Chadbourne in black ink on the limitation page. The publisher also issued an edition of 1000 numbered copies, without Bradbury's signature. Bradbury died in 2012, and pre-existing signed sheets were bound into this lettered edition. This volume also includes essays by American animator Ray Harryhausen, and science fiction writers Michael Marshall Smith, Arthur C. Clarke, and Tim Powers.