The Martian Chronicles

Publishing Information:

Signs of a true U.S. Doubleday 1950 first edition:

•  bound in greenish-yellow cloth with red lettering (some may be very dark red) on beige spine
•  has the words FIRST EDITION below the copyright information
•  Dustjacket art by Arthur Lidov and photo of Ray by Morris Dolens.
•  Original dust jacket price is $2.50 and will have the letters T.M.C. printed above the price

First British hardcover edition published by Rupert Hart-Davis in 1951 under the title The Silver Locusts.
The contents differ slightly from the Doubleday first edition.

First paper edition published by Bantam in 1951.
Bantam No. 886
There were two printings of this edition, June and August.

Science Fiction Book Club (U.S.) edition published in 1952 (copyright 1950).
Contents identical to the Doubleday edition except blue boards.

Science Fiction Book Club (London) edition published in 1953.
This British edition restores the U.S. title.
The contents differ slightly from the Hart-Davis edition.

First British paper edition published by Corgi in 1956 under the title The Silver Locusts.
Corgi No. 886.

Doubleday released a new hardcover edition in 1958.
This edition contains a Prefatory Note by Clifton Fadiman.
There were eleven printings of this edition through 1962.

Time published a trade-paper edition in 1963.
The contents of this edition are expanded from the first U.S. edition to include "The Fire Balloons" and "The Wilderness."
Includes an Editors' Preface and Time Reading Program Introduction by Fred Hoyle.

Doubleday released a new hardcover edition in 1973.
The contents of this edition are expanded to match the Time edition of 1963.
Includes a profile of Ray Bradbury and a checklist of his books and stories by William F. Nolan.

The Heritage Press published a cloth edition with slipcase in 1974.

The first paper printing with the Television Movie cover (the celery-head Martian) was from Bantam Books in 1979.
Bantam No. 13179.

A 40th Anniversary cloth edition was published by Doubleday in 1990.
ISBN No. 0385050607.
Includes a Foreward, "The Long Road To Mars" by Ray Bradbury.
The cover art on this edition is by Michael Whelan.

The Bantam mass-market paper edition is currently published with the ISBN No. 0553278223

A new cloth edition was published by Avon Books in 1997.
ISBN No. 0380973839
Includes an introduction, "Green Town, Somewhere on Mars; Mars, Somewhere in Egypt," by Ray Bradbury.

Contents:

• Rocket Summer
• Ylla
• The Summer Night
• The Earth Men
• The Taxpayer
• The Third Expedition (often referred to as "Mars is Heaven")
• -- And the Moon Be Still As Bright
• The Settlers
• The Green Morning
• The Locusts
• Night Meeting
• The Shore
• Interim
• The Musicians
• Way in the Middle of the Air
• The Naming of Names
• Usher II
• The Old Ones
• The Martian
• The Luggage Store
• The Off Season
• The Watchers
• The Silent Towns
• The Long Years
• There Will Come Soft Rains
• The Million-Year Picnic

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Last Updated October 18, 2006