{"title":"Science Fiction","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"farmer-philip-jose-the-image-of-the-beast-an-exorcism-ritual-i-1968-3375","title":"The Image of the Beast. An Exorcism Ritual I","description":"\u003cbr\u003eNorth Hollywood, California Essex House. 1968.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch4 class=\"vrb_heading\"\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_desc\"\u003eFirst edition. 170x108mm. pp. 255. Original paperback, pictorial card cover with postscript by Theodore Sturgeon. Very good condition with a little light rubbing to covers. Internally fine. Described on the front cover as a \"remarkable adult novel\", The Image of the Beast is an extraordinary book combining the surreal, the erotic, and the grotesque to create a genre described as \"biosexopsychic science-fiction\".\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_note\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_prov\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_biblio\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"FARMER, Philip José","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31487381995631,"sku":"3375","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/products\/20200429_155100_resized_19c32204-4f79-44dd-b34d-1ef4b39b7be6.jpg?v=1588173232"},{"product_id":"bradbury-ray-fahrenheit-451-1953-4955","title":"Fahrenheit 451","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNew York: Ballantine Books Inc.. 1953.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"vrb_heading\"\u003eNo false prophet\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_desc\"\u003eFirst trade edition. 197x126mm. Pp. [6], 199 [3]. Red cloth, lettered in yellow to upper cover and spine. Original illustrated dustjacket. Some chipping and creasing to the edges of the jacket but otherwise in very good condition and internally excellent. Jacket is Currey's state D (no priority). Front free endpaper has a gift inscription dated October 22, 1953 \"To Don – With the hope that we can prove Ray Bradbury as false prophet! Polly\".\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_desc\"\u003e \u003cbr\u003eOne of the great dystopian novels, Fahrenheit 451 was born out of Bradbury's novella The Fireman which itself borrowed elements from two short stories, Bright Phoenix and The Pedestrian. Famously, the title page explains that 451 is the fahrenheit \"temperature at which book-paper catches fire and burns…\" Although it was the Nazi book-burnings that provided the most obvious inspiration for the novel which describes an America where books are banned and destroyed, Bradbury confessed to numerous motivations. McCarthyism was undoubtedly an influence but the spectre of mass media and television and its effect on reading habits also lay behind the book as, Bradbury later made clear, did political and social thought control and restrictions on freedom of speech. 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Slight creasing and two closed tears to head of jacket and rubbing to foot of spine of jacket but otherwise a very good copy of the sixth of MacVicar's \u003cem\u003eLost Planet \u003c\/em\u003eseries. 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