BRADBURY, Ray (1920-2012). The Martian Chronicles. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950. 8vo. Original light green cloth (spine slightly toned); publisher's pictorial dust jacket (spine panel slightly sunned, 1-in. tear at foot of upper joint with tape repair verso, minor toning to edges). FIRST EDITION of Bradbury's series of closely-linked short stories about the colonization of Mars; each story was previously published in various science fiction publications in the 1940s. Currey, 56; Nolan p.107.