{"product_id":"bradbury-ray-fahrenheit-451-1953-4955","title":"Fahrenheit 451","description":"\u003cbr\u003eNew York: Ballantine Books Inc.. 1953.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch4 class=\"vrb_heading\"\u003eNo false prophet\u003c\/h4\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\". \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. Sadly, Bradbury was no false prophet.\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":"BRADBURY, Ray","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57193328116089,"sku":"4955","price":5000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/4955_1.jpg?v=1777655286","url":"https:\/\/voewoodrarebooks.com\/products\/bradbury-ray-fahrenheit-451-1953-4955","provider":"Voewood Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}