"Long After Midnight" by Ray Bradbury - Alfred A. Knopf, New York - 1976 first American edition first printing - 18cmx15cm - condition: good, in original pictorial dustwrapper featuring the Goya illustration with some wear to spine ends. Personally inscribed by Ray Bradbury to personal friend in year of publication on front endpaper Twenty-two stories from the master of the fantastic record the experiences of ordinary and extraordinary characters caught up in the mysteries and dooms of past, present, and future. A crazy scheme to bring peace to the world with the aid of rust. A martian who could be Jesus. An author, plucked from his grave, is thwarted by one Melissa Toad, the mysterious witch of New York. This is a collection of tales which demolish the old saying: truth is stranger than fiction