Long After Midnight

Long After Midnight (1976) collects twenty-two short stories spanning the range of Ray Bradbury's preoccupations: Mars, memory, childhood, the uncanny edge of ordinary life. The stories had appeared across nearly three decades in venues from Weird Tales and Playboy to Collier's and Esquire. Among the more distinctive pieces: "The Parrot Who Met Papa," in which a Cuban bar parrot turns out to be the sole repository of Hemingway's last, unwritten novel; "G.B.S. — Mark V," a robot programmed to replicate George Bernard Shaw; and "Darling Adolf," a dark comedy involving a Hitler impersonator whose act tips into something uglier. The collection is not primarily dystopian, but several stories touch on themes of conformity, technology, and cultural decline that run through Bradbury's larger body of work.

Inscribed copy. This copy is signed & inscribed by Bradbury with an original drawing of a ghost on the front free-endpaper.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. New York: Knopf, 1976. ISBN: 0394479424. #10025.
Fine in fine dust jacket.