{"id":15001,"date":"2016-03-15T12:53:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T17:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=15001"},"modified":"2016-03-15T12:53:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T17:53:19","slug":"library-additions-three-signed-ray-bradbury-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=15001","title":{"rendered":"Library Additions: Three Signed Ray Bradbury Items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Picked up a few more items signed by Ray Bradbury:<\/p>\n<li>Bradbury, Ray. <b>A Christmas Wish 1988 (If Only We Had Taller Been)<\/b>. Privately printed, 1988. First edition Christmas broadsheet, a Fine copy. Inscribed by Bradbury: &#8220;For Rev. Gerald Watt, C.R.\/With fond good wishes\/for\/1989\/Ray Bradbury.&#8221; Bought for $28 off eBay.\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Bradbury-Christmas-88-1.jpeg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15012\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Bradbury-Christmas-88-1-230x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Bradbury Christmas 88\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15012\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Bradbury-Christmas-88-1-230x300.jpeg 230w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Bradbury-Christmas-88-1-768x1004.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Bradbury-Christmas-88-1-783x1024.jpeg 783w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>Bradbury,  Ray. <b>A Christmas Wish 1989 (The Bread of Beggars, The Wine of Christ)<\/b>. Privately printed, 1989. First edition Christmas broadsheet, a Fine copy. Inscribed by Bradbury: &#8220;For Rev. Watt. Thanks for Asking!\/Love!\/Ray\/Bradbury\/ 5\/6\/90.&#8221; Bought for $29 off eBay.\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Bradbury-Christmas-89.jpeg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15011\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Bradbury-Christmas-89-230x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Bradbury Christmas 89\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15011\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Bradbury-Christmas-89-230x300.jpeg 230w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Bradbury-Christmas-89-768x1002.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Bradbury-Christmas-89-785x1024.jpeg 785w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>(Bradbury, Ray) Weist, Jerry. <b>Bradbury: An Illustrated Life<\/b>. William Morrow, 2002. First edition hardback (precedes the Donald M. Grant limited edition by two years), a Fine-\/Fine- copy with very slight bumping at head and heel. Inscribed by Bradbury: &#8220;To all the\/Grand Tubers;Ray Bradbury.&#8221; Oversized illustrated history of Bradbury&#8217;s work. Bought for $27.10 off eBay. <\/li>\n<p>I now have three of the Bradbury Christmas broadsheets (which he sent to friends as Christmas gifts\/cards), all signed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picked up a few more items signed by Ray Bradbury: Bradbury, Ray. A Christmas Wish 1988 (If Only We Had Taller Been). Privately printed, 1988. First edition Christmas broadsheet, a Fine copy. Inscribed by Bradbury: &#8220;For Rev. Gerald Watt, C.R.\/With fond good wishes\/for\/1989\/Ray Bradbury.&#8221; Bought for $28 off eBay. Bradbury, Ray. A Christmas Wish 1989 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":12,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[1973,1398,97,243,716,1970,882],"class_list":["post-15001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-science-fiction","tag-books","tag-broadsheet","tag-first-edition","tag-poetry","tag-ray-bradbury","tag-science-fiction","tag-signed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15001"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15017,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15001\/revisions\/15017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}