A Medicine For Melancholy

Publishing Information:

First U.S. hardcover edition published by Doubleday in 1959.
(There seems to be some dispute over the publication date of this edition. The publication information inside the first U.S. edition states that the publication date was 1959, yet we have heard from other sources that this edition wasn't actually published until 1960. Anyone with information about the publication date of this edition should e-mail The Ray Bradbury page.)

First mass-market paper edition published by Bantam in 1960.
Bantam No. A2069.
This edition had a number printings.

Science Fiction Book Club (London) edition published in 1960 under the title The Day It Rained Forever.

First mass-market British paper edition published in 1963 by Penguin Books under the title The Day It Rained Forever.
Penguin No. 1878.

First trade paper edition published by Avon Books in 1998.
The contents of this edition differ significantly from all previous editions. The stories "The Dragon," "The End of the Beginning," "Icarus Montgolfier Wright," "Dark They Were, and Golden-eyed" and "The Strawberry Window" have been omitted, and most of the stories from S is for Space have been included.
ISBN No. 0380730863

Contents:

• In a Season of Calm Weather
• The Dragon
• A Medicine for Melancholy
• The End of the Beginning
• The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit
• Fever Dream
• The Marriage Mender
• The Town Where No One Got Off
• A Scent of Sarsaparilla
• Icarus Montgolfier Wright
• The Headpiece
• Dark They Were, and Golden-eyed
• The Smile
• The First Night of Lent
• The Time of Going Away
• All Summer in a Day
• The Gift
• The Great Collision of Monday Last
• The Little Mice
• The Shore Line at Sunset
• The Strawberry Window
• The Day it Rained Forever

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