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Dandelion Wine

Ray Bradbury

First published 1957
Publisher Doubleday
Format Hardcover
Type Novel
Cover art Robert Vickrey
Pages 281
Price $3.95

Notes

Fix-up novel based on previously published short stories. Note that the chapters are not numbered in the book itself and are given here to establish the order in which the stories appear in the text.

  • Chapter 1: (original)
  • Chapter 2: Illumination (1957)
  • Chapter 3: Dandelion Wine (1953)
  • Chapters 4-5: Summer in the Air (1956) (aka The Sound of Summer Running)
  • Chapter 6: (original)
  • Chapter 7: The Season of Sitting (1951)
  • Chapters 8-9, 11, 13: The Happiness Machine (1957)
  • Chapter 10: The Night (1946) (text was substantially rewritten for this appearance)
  • Chapter 12: The Lawns of Summer (1952)
  • Chapter 14: (original)
  • Chapters 15-16: Season of Disbelief (1950)
  • Chapters 17-18: The Last, the Very Last (aka The Time Machine)
  • Chapter 19: The Green Machine (1951)
  • Chapter 20: The Trolley (1955)
  • Chapters 21-22: Statues (original)
  • Chapters 23-24: Exorcism (original)
  • Chapters 25-26: The Window (1950) (aka Calling Mexico)
  • Chapter 27: (original)
  • Chapters 28-29: The Swan (1954)
  • Chapters 30-31 The Whole Town's Sleeping (1950)
  • Chapter 32 Good-By, Grandma (1957) (aka The Leave-Taking)
  • Chapter 33: (original)
  • Chapter 34: The Tarot Witch (original)
  • Chapter 35: (original)
  • Chapters 36-38 Dinner at Dawn (1954)
  • Chapter 39: The Magical Kitchen (sources disagree if this is part of "Dinner at Dawn" as it was originally published)
  • Chapter 40 Green Wine for Dreaming (original)


"First Edition" so stated on copyright page. [Currey] Cover artist from The Whole Science Fiction Data Base No. 4 [photograph?] The cover artist, Robert Vickrey, also did a different cover for 1975 Knopf edition. According to the printing history published on the copyright page of the 25th Bantam printing, there were three printings of the Doubleday hardcover edition through October 1957.

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Dandelion Wine Cover 1957 Hart-Davis Hardcover Novel Jeffries Lies 184
Dandelion Wine Cover 1959 Bantam Books Paperback Novel A1922 184
Dandelion Wine Cover 1964 Bantam Books Paperback Novel FP55 184
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Dandelion Wine Cover 1974 Bantam Books Paperback Novel NP8027 184
Dandelion Wine Cover 1975 Corgi Paperback Novel 184
Dandelion Wine Cover 1975 Alfred A. Knopf Hardcover Novel Robert Vickrey xiv+269
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