'The Exiles' - The last memories of burned Earth authors must battle against humans invading their new home planet - Mars. 'The Last Night of the World' - The world ends. 'The Fire Balloons' - Christian missionaries on a colonized Mars must convert strange, blue-colored Martians to their religion. 'The Rocket Man' - A retired Rocket Man visits his son and wife for numerous periods of time - or is he? 'The Long Rain' - A group of humans stuck on Venus must find the evasive and elusive Sun Domes. 'The Man' - A group of space-travelers land on an unknown planet and are meet with the strange case of a mysterious man. 'The Highway' - A group of obscure Mexican farmers meet a group of tourists who try to understand the words 'the world'. 'The Other Foot' - After leaving Earth for Mars many years before, a community of blacks must deal with a white man from a destroyed Earth. 'Kaleidoscope' - As their ship is destroyed, astronauts recount their lives and let out their most deep urges. 'The Veldt' - The Hadley parents become worried as their two children use their virtual reality-like 'nursery' for their own desires.

The stories are connected through the tale of a former member of a circus whose body is full of illustrations who meets a wanderer on a street who is shown him the illustrations tatooed on his body. The paste-down forms an.1951 The Illustrated Man is a 1951 short story collection of eighteen short stories by Ray Bradbury. Paste-down The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. Bookplate Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the. Fine A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A book may have more than one first edition in. First Edition In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. Jacket Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps. Edges The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a. Some terminology that may be used in this description includes: Copyright page The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of.

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