Fahrenheit 451
1955, the SFBC edition a year after the true first
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Printing Details
Reprint. Hardback, bound in green cloth with silver titling to spine. 19 × 12.5cm, 158pp.
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books. The classic novel of a post-literate future, 'Fahrenheit 451' stands alongside Orwell's '1984' and Huxley's 'Brave New World' as a prophetic account of Western civilization's enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity.
Condition
A good reading copy of an early edition. There is a slight lean to the spine, and tanning to the margins throughout but otherwise remaining in strong readable condition.
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Price
£25.00
