The latest addition to my signed first edition collection is probably my most dear. Ray Bradbury’s Death is a Lonely Business. I managed to find it for a steal, mostly due to the fact that a corner was slightly bent.
I have some other Franklin Library books that are worth a bit more than this one, but owning something that Bradbury once touched makes this absolutely priceless to me. He’s an author I always looked up to and admired. I adored his novels and his short stories, his vast imagination and memorable characters. For a long time, I considered getting some sort of Fahrenheit 451 inspired tattoo, such is my love for his works.
Hell, I even saw A Sound of Thunder in theaters, piece of rubbish that it was, and subsequently bought it on DVD.
I’m grateful that the Franklin Library grants me the opportunity to own things favorite authors of mine have touched, but there’s always a little bittersweetness when a new one shows up.
Like Michael Crichton (who I wrote about when I found a signed copy of Travels), he was an author I always wanted to meet. Sigh.
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Managed to find a signed first edition of Ray Bradbury’s Death is a Lonely Business. So SO happy! http://t.co/wXSEtzYt