THE HALLOWEEN TREE; THE OCTOBER COUNTRY; SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES

First edition. Limited edition. Signed by the author. Three volumes. Publisher's original pictorial boards illustrated by Joseph Mugnaini, in the James Hannah illustrated dustwrappers (that are unique to this edition). Housed in the black cloth slipcase, with red titles to the backstrip. With illustrated endpapers featuring black and white renditions of the first edition cover artwork of the respective texts. A fine set, the bindings square and firm, bright and fresh, with just a touch of rubbing to the tail of the spine of 'The October Country'. The contents, with a small finger mark at the rear of 'Something Wicked This Way Comes', are otherwise clean throughout, and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine dustwrappers which are free from fading, loss or tears. Housed in the structurally sound slipcase.

Issued in an edition of 26 lettered copies, from which this example is marked N and signed by the author Ray Bradbury in red ink on the limitation page loosely laid in to 'The Halloween Tree', as issued. There was also an edition of 274 unsigned copies, issued without dustwrappers. Comprising of the 'The Halloween Tree', 'Something Wicked This Way Comes' and 'The October Country', this collection of 19 short stories includes 'The Dwarf','The Next in Line', 'The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse', 'Skeleton', 'The Jar', 'The Lake', 'The Emissary', 'Touched with Fire', 'The Small Assassin', 'The Crowd', 'Jack-In-The-Box', 'The Scythe', 'Uncle Einar', 'The Wind', 'The Man Upstairs', 'There was an Old Woman', 'The Cistern', 'Homecoming', 'The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone'.