This hauntingly prophetic novel centres around a not-too-distant future where happiness is allocated on a TV screen, individuals and scholars are outcasts and books are burned by a special task-force of firemen. Part of the Voyager Classics series Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, ...
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This hauntingly prophetic novel centres around a not-too-distant future where happiness is allocated on a TV screen, individuals and scholars are outcasts and books are burned by a special task-force of firemen. Part of the Voyager Classics series Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books. The classic novel of a post-literate future, Fahrenheit 451 is part of the Voyager Classic series. It stands alongside Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World as a prophetic account of Western civilization's enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity. Bradbury's powerful and poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a novel which, forty years on from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock.
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Near Fine. Book. Signed by Author(s) Later printing, SIGNED by the author on the title page. This book is square, solid, and unread, and in a protective archival bag. When this humdinger arrives at your door, you'll feel as though you've gotten drunk on dandelion wine and you're burning a wicked midnight fever of 451 after receiving an illustrated missive from Mars, all on October 31st! NOTE: General age-toning, nearly nonexistent edge-wear. From the library of Southern California collector Bill Wilson. Truly beautiful copy. ALSO INCLUDED: A Guy Montag Fireman Service Card, signed by Captain Ned Beatty, printed on stiff card-stock in four colors and about 8-10 separate fonts to really create the sense of what one of the Firemen's Service Cards might have looked like. A very sharp and collectible item to pair with this book!
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Near Fine. Book. Signed by Author(s) 5th printing, SIGNED by the author on the title page. This book is square, solid, and unread, and in a protective archival bag. When this humdinger arrives at your door, you'll feel as though you've gotten drunk on dandelion wine and you're burning a wicked midnight fever of 451 after receiving an illustrated missive from Mars, all on October 31st! NOTE: VERY light degree of age-toning, nearly nonexistent edge-/handling-wear, and at the upper righthand tip of the front cover has a dinky chip. From the library of Southern California collector Bill Wilson. ALSO INCLUDED: A Guy Montag Fireman Service Card, signed by Captain Ned Beatty, printed on stiff card-stock in four colors and about 8-10 separate fonts to really create the sense of what one of the Firemen's Service Cards might have looked like. A very sharp and collectible item to pair with this book!
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Near Fine. Book. Signed by Author(s) 8th printing, SIGNED by the author on the title page. This book is square, solid, and unread (perfect spine), and in a protective archival bag. When this humdinger arrives at your door, you'll feel as though you've gotten drunk on dandelion wine and you're burning a wicked midnight fever of 451 after receiving an illustrated missive from Mars, all on October 31st! NOTE: Age-toned, general edge-/handling-wear, and the old 'ghost' of a removed price sticker is on the upper righthand corner of the cover. Burning man cover art. From the library of Southern California collector Bill Wilson. ALSO INCLUDED: A Guy Montag Fireman Service Card, signed by Captain Ned Beatty, printed on stiff card-stock in four colors and about 8-10 separate fonts to really create the sense of what one of the Firemen's Service Cards might have looked like. A very sharp and collectible item to pair with this book!
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Fine in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall This 40th anniversary edition contains a new and insightful forward by Ray Bradbury. It is a seventh printing and signed in ink by the author with just his name on the title page: "Ray Bradbury." The book itself is fine with no wear or markings but the jacket looks fine from front and spine yet has a tape repair to the back bottom corner of back panel that is obvious-about an inch long by 1/2 inch wide at very corner. Not too bad looking.
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Near Fine. Book. Signed by Author(s) 10th printing, SIGNED by the author on the title page. This book is square, solid, and unread, and in a protective archival bag. When this humdinger arrives at your door, you'll feel as though you've gotten drunk on dandelion wine and you're burning a wicked midnight fever of 451 after receiving an illustrated missive from Mars, all on October 31st! NOTE: VERY light degree of age-toning, nearly nonexistent rubs of edge-wear. From the library of Southern California collector Bill Wilson. ALSO INCLUDED: A Guy Montag Fireman Service Card, signed by Captain Ned Beatty, printed on stiff card-stock in four colors and about 8-10 separate fonts to really create the sense of what one of the Firemen's Service Cards might have looked like. A very sharp and collectible item to pair with this book!
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Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 067187036X. 40th Anniversary Edition; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 190 pages; [SIGNED] 1993 Simon & Schuster. HC/DJ 40the Anniversary edition with a new foreword by Bradbury and signed by him on the title page. Snugly bound and fresh in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $21 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Sharp fresh copy. NF/NF; Signed by Author.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book. Signed by Author(s) 1st ed/1st printing, SIGNED by the author on the title page. This book is square, solid, and unread; the boards are solid and unblemished, and the dust jacket is sharp and in a protective Brodart cover. No price clippings, no remainder marks. When this humdinger arrives at your door, you'll feel as though you've gotten drunk on dandelion wine and you're burning a wicked midnight fever of 451 after receiving an illustrated missive from Mars, all on October 31st! NOTE: From the library of SoCal SF collector Bill Wilson. ALSO INCLUDED: A Guy Montag Fireman Service Card, signed by Captain Ned Beatty, printed on stiff card-stock in four colors and about 8-10 separate fonts to really create the sense of what one of the Firemen's Service Cards might have looked like. A very sharp and collectible item to pair with this book!
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Very Good + in very good + jacket. Signed by author on first free endpaper with the name "Vonna" above the signature. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. Dust jacket is NOT price clipped and is in a clear, removable protective sleeve. Previous owner's name embossed on half title page. Some numbers in pencil on front free endpaper. Last copyright date indicated is 1979. Sun-lightened spine on jacket. Size: 8vo (8" to 9"). 151 pp.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Anniversary Edition. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed & Dated by Author 40th Anniversary edition, first prnt. Signed and dated "5/19/93" by Bradbury on the front free endpage. Foreword by Bradbury for this edition. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Bradbury's first novel, following by three years The Martian Chronicles which consisted of previously published inter-related stories.
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199 p. Includes Illustrations. TRUE 1ST EDITION, Paperback original from Ballantine (#41), 1953. SIGNED BY RAY BRADBURY! VERY GOOD, edge wear, esp at spine, some light creasing to back cover. Joe Mugnaini cover art. Also contains "The Playground" and "And the Rock Cried Out".
Excellent condition. Like new really! With flawless clothbound cover
Thomas A
Jun 25, 2016
Thoughr I was ordering the book - not the study guide. Now, I will have both.
IloveAugustusWaters
Apr 7, 2014
In English class, we read the book Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury. I thought this book was pretty good, but it wouldn't be that good for people without a big vocabulary. There are a lot of big words that most kids don't know, I'm in the 6th grade, and this book was a little confusing for me. It's pretty much about a dystopian future, when firemen burn books, and start fires, instead of putting them out. In this future, everyone encourages burning books, they think that it's a waste of time. If they catch you with a book, they will burn all of them, and burn your house, and possibly put you in a insane asylum. You are considered crazy if you like books. This is a story about a man, Montag, who discovers the truth about books, and that they aren't as terrible as he believed, and everyone says. The ?normal? people like to sit in front of the television all day, and watch shows with no storyline, and they hate to socialize. Montag, with the help of Clarisse and Faber, discovers the truth, and heads on his way to a camp of ?The Book People.? ?The Book People? are camps of Harvard degrees along the railroad track, who memorize books.
HarrisonS
Apr 7, 2014
Fahrenheit 451
The book Fahrenheit 451 is a very thought provoking book. The author uses different tools such as symbolism and irony to express different themes. One theme is knowledge versus ignorance and how to not follow the status quo. The main character, Guy Montag , is on a journey to find the truth. He wishes not to become like the others in this society who are lazy, unmotivated and void of emotion.
Montag starts questioning his job as a fireman and goes after the truth. In this time period, Firemen burn books instead of putting out fires. So this change from being void of emotion, just following orders, to a person of knowledge is very hard for Montag. Events happen throughout the book that start to open his eyes to the truth that books can hold instead of believing what is fed to him by the government through television and radio.
One of the scenes I liked most from this book was when Montag's first revelation about the way the society works, happens at an old woman's house where he and the other firemen were sent to burn books . When the firemen arrive at this woman's house the woman is still there, when usually the police come and get the person first. So now the firemen had to burn a house with a woman inside it. But before they can, the woman pulls out a match and lets herself go up in flames with her books. So now Montag realizes what people would do for their books and that they might have some meaning to them.
This book is an awesome dystopian future novel by Ray Bradbury which makes you think about human behavior more deeply.
Macp
Apr 7, 2014
Fahrenheit 451
I think the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury was an interesting book about Guy Montag, an ex-fireman. In this future, firemen burn books because the government says they are illegal, but they really don't want anybody to think.
One of my favorite parts is when Montag is running away from Mechanical Hound and escapes by climbing in the river, pours whiskey on himself, changes clothes and floats away down the river. There, he runs into the wilderness and finds the Book People, a group of people who have memorized books.
An important part in the book is when Mrs. Blake, an elderly woman, commits suicide and burns with her books. This made an important impact on Montag because after her death he did not want to burn anymore books or possibly people. Another import character is Clarisse McClellan, a crazy seventeen year old who loves the wilderness, likes to study people, and asks many questions.
Overall I thought this book was well written and very futuristic. The book had many emotional parts. It had its ups and downs and some parts were very grotesque; Captain Beatty burns and boils. I would recommend to anyone who is reading this to read Fahrenheit 451!
