@booklet {1454, title = {Fahrenheit 451}, year = {1953}, note = {

Serialized in Playboy 1.4 - 6 (March - May 1953): 6-9, 18, 24-25, 28, 35, 41-42, 44, 46-48, 50; 22-23, 28-329, 32-33, 36, 38, 43-44, 49; 19-20, 24, 32, 35-38,43-46, 48-50. A special 200 copy limited edition was bound in Johns-Manville Quintera (asbestos). New York: Ballantine Books, 1953. Rpt. without the asbestos binding New York: Simon \& Schuster, 1967, with an \“Introduction\” by Bradbury (9-15); illus. Joseph Mugnaini. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1982. 40th Anniversary Edition. New York: Simon \& Schuster, 1993. [50th anniversary ed.] New York: Simon \& Schuster, 2003 includes Bradbury\’s introduction to the 1967 edition (23-30), \“Burning Bright,\” his Foreword to the 1993 edition (11-21), and \“A New Introduction\” (5-9). Collector\’s Edition illus. Joseph Mugnaini with an \“Introduction\” by Eric S. Rabkin (3-8). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1991. The [60th Anniversary Edition]. with the subtitle Fahrenheit 451--The temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns. New York: Simon \& Schuster, 2013 has an \”Introduction\” by Neil Gaiman (xi-xvi). Critical ed. in Novels \& Story Cycles. Ed. Jonathan R. Eller (New York: Library of America, 2021), 231-361, with a Chronology of Bradbury\’s life (843-61); a notes on the text (866-68); and textual notes (876-79), Bradbury\’s \“Day After Tomorrow: Why Science Fiction\” (811-817), rpt. from The Nation\ 176 (May 2, 1953): 364-367;\ rpt. in The Nation, 150th anniversary edition (April 6, 2015): 101; and his \“No Man Is an Island\” (818-824), rpt. from his No Man Is an Island. Los Angeles, CA: National Women\’s Commission of Brandeis University, 1952. An early version was published as \“The Fireman.\” Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) 1.5 (February 1951): 4-61; rpt. in Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451. Ed. Donn Albright and Jon[athan R.] Eller, Textual Ed. (Colorado Springs, CO: Gauntlet Press, 2006), 415-84; and in his A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010), 203-71. Some other stories in this volume, many of which were originally or previously published in his Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451. Ed. Donn Albright and Jon[athan R.] Eller, Textual Ed. Colorado Springs, CO: Gauntlet Press, 2006, are related, some quite loosely, to Fahrenheit 451. See Tim Hamilton, Ray Bradbury\’s Fahrenheit 451. The Authorized Adaptation. New York: Hill and Wang, 2009 for a graphic novel version.

}, publisher = {Ballantine}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Authoritarian, anti-intellectual dystopia. Fahrenheit 451 is the burning point of paper.\ See 2007 Bradbury, \“The Library\” and 2010 Bradbury, \“Long After Midnight\” for related stories.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012)} }