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Could someone please explain to me why I cannot find a copy of this book available for a decent price? It is not even listed as one of his books on this website. Any help would be appreicated. | |||
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Hi cincinnati mike, and welcome. SUMMER MORNING, SUMMER NIGHT was published by Subterranean Press, who specialise in limited edition volumes. I don't know how big the print run was, but they sold out a long time ago. Any copies still on sale therefore now have an inflated price, because of the rarety value. Why isn't the book mentioned on this website? Simple: this website is owned by Bradbury's mass-market publisher, HarperCollins, and so the only books publicised here are HarperCollins volumes (or Wm Morrow, which is an imprint of HarperCollins). I can only suggest you keep an eye out on Abebooks.com (current listing for this title is here) or on eBay. The cheapest copy I have seen on sale recently is around $73 for an ex-library copy. - Phil Deputy Moderator | Visit my Bradbury website: www.bradburymedia.co.uk | Visit the Center for RB Studies: www.tinyurl.com/RBCenter | ||||
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The Subterranen site lists a trade paperback edition for 14.95USD, but I would suggest one email them to confirm. It seems to be an error. http://subterraneanpress.com/s...morning_summer_night | ||||
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Thank you! I am much obliged. I am a high school English teach who loves Ray Bradbury. I love Dandelion Wine. I feel Summer Morning, Summer Night is more of a sequel to Dandelion Wine than Farewell Summer, though they are all fantastic. Thanks again! | ||||
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Hmmm. I went to a different page on the same site, and I was sure it said "sold out". Maybe they do have stock of the trade paperback. I've only ever laid eyes on the hardcover. - Phil Deputy Moderator | Visit my Bradbury website: www.bradburymedia.co.uk | Visit the Center for RB Studies: www.tinyurl.com/RBCenter | ||||
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Well, DANDELION WINE, FAREWELL SUMMER and most of the material in SUMMER MORNING are all fallout from the same original project, which was to be a single work (which was to be called SUMMER MORNING, SUMMER NIGHT at one point). It was Bradbury's editor back in the '50s who urged him to separate out the DANDELION WINE material. FAREWELL SUMMER was eventually published as a sequel (and was re-shaped to function as one), but it was not originally conceived as a sequel. SUMMER MORNING,SUMMER NIGHT is a mixed bag: a gathering of previously published Illinois stories, followed by an assortment of scraps, fragments and left-overs. Some of these are excellent, some of them frustratingly incomplete. - Phil Deputy Moderator | Visit my Bradbury website: www.bradburymedia.co.uk | Visit the Center for RB Studies: www.tinyurl.com/RBCenter | ||||
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Originally posted by philnic:
It would be a gem of a book to have them collected in one book. Subterranean did great work with Where Everything Ends. cincinnati mike, you might be interested in Greentown, Tinseltown, published by PS Publishing. Received a copy a few days ago. A real joy! If you are curious: http://www.pspublishing.co.uk/...-albright-1316-p.aspThis message has been edited. Last edited by: Linnl, | ||||
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The hardcover was listed as sold out, it seems as if I was able to order the paper back. Thanks for the tip on the poetry edition. This is a great message board. | ||||
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I forsee a number of insane Bradbury collectors over the next few years (trying to find and buy all the new publications that will be coming out). | ||||
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But there is an inexpensive edition of Summer Morning, Summer Night, published by Far territories in 2010. As far as I know, it contains all the Bradbury fiction content of the original, although introductions and other editorial content are missing. | ||||
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I received my copy of Summer Morning, Summer Night in the mail today. I paid $15 for it, and the publishing company included an advanced reader copy of another book. While I am very happy to have added this to my collection, it does not seem to be what I wanted. I once had my hand on a Bradbury book, I cannot remember if it was a novel or a collection, but it seemed to be about Green Town. The story was about a man traveling from the West Coast to the East Coast who stopped in Green Town, where he had been reared, and spent the day. It feels like it should have been in Dandelion Wine, Farewell Summer, or Summer Morning, Summer Night, can anyone help me? Thanks.... | ||||
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I wonder if you have ever seen, read, or heard Bradbury's PLAY based on DANDELION WINE. In this re-telling of the novel, Bradbury changes the Bill Forrester character to someone who returns to Green Town after many years. I wrote a review of the play (an audio performance of the play) for my website, here. Have a read, see if it sounds familiar. Alternatively, you may be recalling a short story... but I don't know which one! - Phil Deputy Moderator | Visit my Bradbury website: www.bradburymedia.co.uk | Visit the Center for RB Studies: www.tinyurl.com/RBCenter | ||||
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There is a short story in a recent collection about a guy named William stopping at the Green Town Library. | ||||
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Yes, he is Captain William Spaulding, and the story is "Exchange", found in QUICKER THAN THE EYE. I don't think he is travelling in quite the way cincinnati mike described, though. Another possibility is "The Utterly Perfect Murder", which has another Spaulding character. This is the one about the man who goes back to his home town to get his revenge on someone who bullied him, but decides that time has already exacted a better revenge than he could achieve. That one is in LONG AFTER MIDNIGHT and THE STORIES OF RAY BRADBURY. - Phil Deputy Moderator | Visit my Bradbury website: www.bradburymedia.co.uk | Visit the Center for RB Studies: www.tinyurl.com/RBCenter | ||||
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Hi everyone, This day I went to a shop in Budapest, where one can book a book (fine)I was told too first, that it can be available by Amazon at price 54$, but a minute later a very goog news popped up: This year, Julay 2015, HarperCollins is to reissue it at a price of 5$ only, so anyíone can order it!!!!!!! | ||||
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Ray Bradbury Hompage Ray Bradbury Forums Forums Imported Forums Resources Question about Summer Morning, Summer Night
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