Unsigned first edition book: Dark Carnival. First edition. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1947. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.5 x 7.75, 313 pages. Book condition: VG+/NF, with light soiling to the rear panel of the unclipped jacket. Accompanied by a handsome, artistically crafted custom-made clamshell box. Bradbury's debut book was printed in an edition of 3,112 copies by Arkham House, under the editorial direction of August Derleth. A scarce and desirable example of the author's first book.
