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• “All on a Summer’s Night.” (50-2) 14 pp.
• “Almost the End of the World.” (57-10) 6 pp. plus title page
• “And So Died Riabouchinska.” (53-12) (TS title: “Riabouchinska.”) 23 pp. carbon copy with title page; 23 pp. ribbon copy, partially retyped and lacking p. 2 (new title page noting 5,500 word count); early fragmented runs of draft discards with title page noting 4,000 word count, 20 pp. (1, 3; 1-2, 5-8, 12-16; retyped 2, 5-8, 12-15).
• “And the Rock Cried Out.” (53-14) (3 versions: First, Second, and Third Drafts) first draft: 49 pp.; second draft: 47 pp.; third draft: 36 pp.
• “Arrivals and Departures.” (07-05) 16 pp.
• “Asleep in Armageddon.” (48-20) 22 pp.
• "August 2002: Night Meeting." (50-11) Under “Night Meeting.” Carbon, 12 pp. plus title page
• “Autumn Afternoon” (02-2) 4 pp. carbon; 3 pp. fragments.
• “Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, The.” (51-12 ) (TS title: “Fog Horn, The”) 4 pp. (incomplete) 4 pp. revisions. Best known under the TS and reprint title as “The Fog Horn.” 14 pp Radio script.
• “Black Ferris, The.” (48-6) (TS title: “Ferris Wheel, The”). 11 pp. (carbon).
• “Blade of Grass, A.” (49-16) 12 pp. (TS title: “The Parallel” 12 pp. Feb 1949)
• “Bonfire.” (50-23) 6 pp.; 1950.
• “Burning Bright.” (63-2) (“Bright Phoenix.”) 14 pp./11 pp.
• “Candle, The.” (42-2) 16 pp. (carbon)
• “Candy Skulls, The.” (48-1) 11 pp.
• “Castle, The.” (07-01) 20 pp.
• “Chrysalis.” (46-11) 1 pp.; 13 pp. (carbon); 1946-1964.
• “Circus, The.” (07-05) 4 pp.; c.1948
• “Concrete Mixer, The.” (49-6) 29 pp. (carbon).
• “Cricket on the Hearth.” (02-4) 17 pp. (with AMS corrections); 1951.
• “Dish of Lime Vanilla Ice, A.” (54-11) see “Swan, The”
• “Doodad.” (43-7) 20 pp.; two carbons
• “Dwarf, The.” (54-2) 26 pp. (with AMS corrections), 1949; 6 pp. (incomplete).
• “El Dia De Muerte.” (47-14) 11 pp. (carbon)
• “El Hombre Que Ardea” (Under “Burning Man, The.”) (75-3) 13 pp. (carbon).
• “Embroidery” 51-16
• “End of Summer.” (48-12) 5 pp.
• “Enemy in the Wheat.” (94-3) 17 pp. (with AMS corrections); 15 pp. (with AMS corrections); retyped 17 pp.
• “Fahrenheit 92.” (54-8) see “Shopping for Death”
• “Ferris Wheel, The.” (48-6) see “Black Ferris, The.”
• “Fireman, The.” (51-1) Research photocopy from Galaxy Science Fiction, February 1951
• “Flight of Ravens, A.” (52-1) 18 pp. (carbon).
• “Flying Machine, The.” (53-4) 8 pp.; 5 pp.
• “Fog Horn, The.” (51-12) see “Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, The.”
• “Forever and the Earth.” (50-7) 23 pp. under Julius Schwartz agent letterhead cover
• “Garbage Collector, The.” (53-5) 9 pp.
• “Golden Apples of the Sun.” (53-6) 16 pp. (various stages).
• “Golden Kite, The Silver Wind, The” (53-1)
• “Gotcha!” (78-1)
• “Green Machine, The” (51-7)
• “Haunted House, The.” (00-3) 3 pp.; 1999.
• “Here There be Tygers.” (51-17) 18 pp. Carbon plus 4 pp; 29 pp. TS various stages; 30 pp Carbon
• “House, The.” (04-11) 17 pp.; 2 extra pp.; 1947; retyped 23 pp. (word processed).
• “House Divided.” (97-5) 10 pp.
• “I Got Something You Ain’t Got!” 13 pp.
• “I’ll Not Ask for Wine” aka "Ylla" (50-1) 22 pp. June 1950
• “Illustrated Man, The.” (50-16) (prologue). 9 pp.; 8 pp.; 1950.
• “Illustrated Man, The.” (50-16) 16 pp.; 14 pp. (various stages).
• “Interval in Sunlight.” (54-5) 51 pp.; 1975
• “Invasion Eve.” (75-1) 1 pp; 1947
• “Is That You, Herb?” (04-1) 8 pp.; “Is That You Bert?” 11 pp.; 1 p. (additional).
• “Jack-in-the-Box, The.” (47-9) 17 pp.; 26 pp. (carbon from 1955 re-write); carbon; 1 p. (additional).
• “The Kilimanjaro Machine.” (65-1) [TS title: “Hem”]. 16 pp. TS plus title page and blank page; 19 pp. carbon; 2 pp. front matter for Life magazine; 8 pp TS; 19 pp carbon; 1 pp notes and outline
• “King of the Gray Spaces.” (43-11) 22 pp.; 2 carbons.
• “Last, the Very Last, The.” (55-2) 10 pp.; carbon; one carbon as “Everlasting Clock.”
• “Library, The.” (07-02) 6 pp. TS; 4 pp. revised (word processor)
• “Magic White Suit, The” (58-3) Under “Wonderful Ice Cream Suit.” 57 pp.
• “Man Upstairs, The” (47-2) 20 pp.; 15 pp.
• “Matter of Taste, A.” (04-2) 16 pp. (with AMS corrections); 1952.
• “Medicine for Melancholy, A” 59-1
• “Miracles of Jamie, The.” (46-5) 12 pp. TS (carbon)
• “Mr. Pale.” (97-10) 8 pp.; 1951.
• “Murderer, The.” (53-8) 13 pp.
• “Naming of Names, The.” (49-11) 23 pp. plus title page; 2 pp fragment; 13 pp fragment
• “Next Stop, the Stars” (“End of the Beginning, The.”) (56-4) 8 pp.; 7 pp. (carbon); 1956.
• “Night Meeting.” See: "August 2002: Night Meeting"
• “No Particular Night or Morning.” (51-5) 15 pp. (with AMS corrections); 15 pp.
• “O Time in Thy Flight.” (53-13) see “Time in Thy Flight.”
• “Other Foot, The.” (51-6) 20 pp.
• “Payment in Full.” (50-3) 11 pp.
• “The Pedestrian” (51-15)
• “Perhaps We Are Going Away” (62-3)
• “Pillar of Fire.” (48-8) 50 pp. (carbon).
• “Playground, The.” (52-7) 20 pp.; 19 pp.; 15 pp. (carbon); 2 pp. (with AMS corrections); 26 pp. (carbon).
• “Poems, The.” (45-1) 18 pp. (carbon)
• “Referent, The.” (48-15) (photocopies)
• “Reincarnate, The.” [1942-1944]. 23 pp. under a Julius Schwartz agent cover page. Original lost; photocopy held by Donn Albright. Photocopy 23pp.
• “Riabouchinska.” (53-12) see “And So Died Riabouchinska”
• “Search for a Stranger” (“In Search of a Stranger”), 1956. 8 pp. with holograph revisions and 8 pp. conflated from other versions.
• “Shopping for Death.” (54-8) (TS title: “Fahrenheit 92”). 18 pp. (corrections). Best known under the reprint title, “Touched with Fire.”
• “The Smile.” (52-9) 3 pp. of fragments
• “Some Time Before Dawn.” (04-16) 12 pp. (with AMS corrections); 13 pp. (with AMS corrections).
• “Subterfuge, The.” (43-4)
• “Swan, The.” (54-11) (TS title: “Dish of Lime Vanilla Ice, A.”) 30 pp. (with AMS corrections); 1950-51.
• “That Old Dog Lying in the Dust” (97-16) 23 pp. (with AMS corrections).
• “There Will Come Soft Rains.” (50-13) (TS MC & “freqs??”)
• “Time in Thy Flight.” (53-13) (TS title: “O, Time in Thy Flight”). 10 pp. 1953
• “Transformation.” (04-17) (TS title: “White Man—Tattoed Black”). 9 pp.
• “Triangle.” (04-18) 11 pp.; 9 pp. (incomplete, with AMS corrections).
• “Torrid Sacrifice” Better Known as: "En la Noche" (52-13) 19 pp. (one-act play).
• “Veldt, The.” see “World the Children Made, The”
• “Very Late in the Evening.” (60-5) (TS title: “After Many a Summer” aka “Some Live Like Lazarus). 11 pp.; 3rd draft, July 20, 1950 8 pp.; 1st draft, April 1949 10 pp.; 2nd draft, July 1950 21 pp.; also includes 2 pp. mimeo status sheets for 1960’s “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” unrelated.
• “Visit, The.” 7 pp October 1984
• “We’ll Just Act Natural.” (04-19) 9 pp.
• “Of All Things—Never to Have Been Born is Best.” (07-03) 7 pp. Part of the unpublished novel fragments of Where Ignorant Armies Clash by Night (c. 1947)
• "We’ll Just Act Natural” (04-19) “We’ll Just Act Natural,” 1948-1949. 9 pp.
• “White Man—Tattoed Black.” (04-17) see “Transformation.”
• “Clash by Night.” (“Where Ignorant Armies Clash by Night”). 52 pp.; 1947.
• “Wilderness, The.” (52-3) 14 pp. (carbon); 10 pp. 1952
• “Witch Door, The.” (95-7) 17 pp.; 16 pp. (with AMS corrections).
• “Wonderful Ice Cream Suit, The” see “Magic White Suit, The”
• “World the Children Made, The” Under “Veldt, The” (50-20) 8 pp. (incomplete carbon, 1949-1950); 27 pp. (teleplay carbon).
• “Year the Glop-Monster Won the Golden Lion at Cannes, The” (66-3)
• “Ylla” see “I’ll Not Ask for Wine”
• “Zero Hour” (47-16)

PUBLISHED BOOK MANUSCRIPTS
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Pre-publication materials for many of Bradbury’s books survive in various institutional and private collections. These materials include his pre-submission typescripts, fragments and discards; final typescripts, submitted to his publishers as setting copy; corrected and uncorrected galleys; and corrected and uncorrected page proofs. Many of these unique stages of composition and presswork are preserved in the Albright Collection, and Bradbury Center photocopies prepared from this collection are listed below.

The Bradbury Center photocopies of Albright Collection materials are listed in chronological order; each entry is prefaced by the provisional numbering sequence established by Eller to identify Bradbury’s fiction and drama volumes (Eller and Touponce, “Bradbury Year-by-Year,” Appendix A, in Ray Bradbury: The Life of Fiction). Thus The Golden Apples of the Sun, the first of two books published by Bradbury in 1953, is designated 53-A. True bibliographical designations, indicating a universal chronology and genealogy, are in development.

• 51-A    The Illustrated Man (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, [Feb.] 1951)

— Reader’s first galleys with routing slip initiated October [1950]. Revised throughout by Bradbury. Sheets numbered consecutively 1-79. Photocopy courtesy of the Albright Collection.

• 53-A    The Golden Apples of the Sun (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, [Mar.] 1953)

— Reader’s first galleys with routing slip initiated December [1952]. Revised by Bradbury throughout. Sheets numbered consecutively 1-74, with Mugnaini line-art headpieces already set in place. Light to moderate water damage to all sheets. Photocopy courtesy of the Albright Collection.

— Submitted Typescript [1952]. Sheets number consecutively 1-301 plus frontmatter.  Includes late submission of title story, numbered 1-11 with editor’s numbers added in pencil 302-312. Galley break and other copyediting marks added in pencil throughout entire MS. Photocopy courtesy of the Albright Collection.

— So-called third carbon of submitted typescript. In addition to third carbons, many of the stories are also represented by early fair-copy typescript forms. Includes an early version of Power House, including pages from the original period of story submission (ca. 1948). Corrections made by Ray Bradbury. Photocopy courtesy of the Albright Collection.

• 53-B    Fahrenheit 451 (New York: Ballantine, [Oct.] 1953)

— “Long After Midnight.” TS ca. summer 1950. 100 pp. of Continuous draft. 1 group of revisions, 43 pp. 4 pages of handwritten inserts or revisions. This is the earliest known stage of work, and was almost certainly prepared from his initial sustained draft prepared in the UCLA library during the early summer of 1950. It resided in the Ackerman collections for several decades, but portions of the typescript were eventually lost, recovered and sold at different times. It no longer exists in its entirety, except in the form of a photocopy made at Donn Albright’s request many years ago. The Bradbury Center photocopy was made from that sole surviving exemplar, and is available courtesy of the Albright Collection.

—Fahrenheit 451, first carbon copy of the submitted typescript, 221 pages, with inserted pages (6-A, 136-A) and minimal revisions by the author. Photocopy courtesy of the Albright Collection. The ribbon copy, with revisions, served as printer’s copy for the Ballantine first edition in 1953 and was subsequently given to long-time Bradbury friend and fellow author, William F. Nolan. It now resides with Nolan’s Bradbury collection at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.

• 57-A    Dandelion Wine (Garden City, NY: [Sept.] 1957)

— Submitted Manuscript, received back from Doubleday Feb. 10, 1958, pp. 1-354. Contains copy-edits by Doubleday in light pencil and a very few authorial corrections in ink. Photocopy courtesy of the Albright Collection.

— Reader’s first galleys with routing slip dated Feb. 8, 1957. Revised by Bradbury throughout, with directions for new chapter breaks and transpositions. Sheets numbered consecutively 1-80. Photocopy courtesy of the Albright Collection.

• 62-B    Something Wicked This Way Comes (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1962)

— Final TS carbon, prepared late 1961, 340 pp. with no holograph markings.

• 72-B    The Halloween Tree (New York: Knopf, 1972)

— First complete TS.draft, prepared fall 1971. 118 pp with RB revisions. 13 Chapters. 17 pp rewrites for pages 75-99

— First Draft, Retyped, fall 1971. 119 pp. plus title page. No revisions

— Novel discards (prior to first submission). 110 pp.

— Original Submitted Manuscript, prepared January 1972 and returned to RB July 8, 1976. 19 Chapters, with copy-editor’s marks. 152 pp. with 4 pp. frontmatter.

• 00-A    From the Dust Returned (New York: Morrow, [Oct.] 2000).

— Word-processed typescript. Pre-submission partial draft, dated April 2000, 40 pp. (numbered 120-160), uncorrected.

— Word-processed typescript, largely complete, dated June 2000, 144 pp. (missing pages 75–78, 85–89, 115; duplicate pages 112, 113, 114); faxed copy of Introduction (“How the Family Gathered”), sent Aug. 25, 2000. 4 pp.; Ray Bradbury’s handwritten revisions, 15 pp., which include revisions for the missing pages of the typescript.

 

COMMERCIAL ANTHOLOGIES
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UNPUBLISHED STORIES
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• “Bullet Trick.” 1950. 16 pp with autograph revisions. The unpublished source of the Bradbury teleplay of the same title (Jane Wyman Presents, 1956).
• “Drothldo, The.” [late 1940s]. 6 pp., with the William Elliott pseudonym by-line.
• “From Now On—.” [late 1940s]. 43 pp.
• “Garbage Collector, The.” [early 1950s]. 14 pp. with 2 variant pages.
• “Hallowe’en in July.” (“Mr. Electrico Gives Douglas Faith” or “The KKK Parade” or “Waiting”), [late 1940s]. 11 pp. with holograph revisions. A version of the story-chapter discarded from Summer Morning, Summer Night designated as a stand-alone story. “Mr. Electrico” may have been intended as a lead-in or a follow-on to the story, but it eventually became a retrospective narrative and was never merged with this tale.
• “House, The.” (“Spoil Fun”). 1947. 11 pp.
• “If Paths Must Cross Again.” [1942-1944]. Two versions, 7 pp. and 5 pp., under a Julius Schwartz agent cover page.
• “It Can Happen to Anyone.” 1944. 4 pp. The fictitious publication of this story in Dime Detective is described by the narrator of Death Is a Lonely Business, (99-100).
• “Lorelei.” 1938. 39 pp., with an illustration by Hannes Bok.
• “Masks, The”
• “Mesa, The.” [1942-1944].  Bradbury’s only western. Two versions, each 13 pp., under a Julius Schwartz agent cover page.
• “Miss Remembrance.” 1969. 7 pp.
• “Mr. Electrico.” [early 1950s]. 7 pp. with holograph revisions.
• “Search for a Stranger.” 1956. 10 pp.
• “Serious Discussion, A”
• “Study in Bronze” (“Bronze Image”), [late 1940s]. 17 pp. and an outline; indications of a William Elliott by-line.
• “Tar-Pit Murders, The.” [mid-1940s]. 8 pp. Unsubmitted detective fiction.
• “Thousand Time Great Grandma, A,” [late 1940s]. Three related episodes: 4 pp., 5 pp. (“Grandma a Thousand Times Great”), and 1 p. (“The Death of Ten Thousand Greats Grandma”). Contains early concept of the plot elements that would open and conclude the novel, From the Dust Returned. See also the unpublished story, “The Grand Tour.”
• “Walker in the Night, The,” [early 1950s]. 7 pp.
• “Where Everything Ends,” [1942-1944]. 23 pp. under a Julius Schwartz agent cover page. Original lost; photocopy held by Donn Albright. Submitted to Flynn’s Detective Fiction (Julius Schwartz to Bradbury, 18 and 25 Mar. 1944). The source of the canal murders in the detective novel, Death Is a Lonely Business (1985).

 

 

PLAYS/TELEPLAYS/SCREENPLAYS
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• “Dark Carnival.” Original Screenplay 1959. 87 pp plus 2 title pages (pages not included in pagination: 53a, 53b,53c, 53d and 58a, 58b, 58c
• “Electric Grandmother, The.” Revision January 11, 1981. “Written for television by Jeffrey Kindley based on “I Sing the Body Electric” by Ray Bradbury.” Highgate Pictures. Executive Producer: Linda Gottlieb. 56 pp
• “The Great Shout of the Universe.” Ca. 1985 (three versions) 22 pp Teleplay; 33 pp. Illustrations/Blocking; 5 pp. Imax Theatre production
• “The Martian Chronicles.” 1960. MGM. 8 pp. of outline for “And the Moon Be Still As Bright.” 16 pp plus title page of MGM script. 1 letter to Julian Blaustein. 11 pp revisions to screen treatment, dated July 18, 1960.
• “The Martian Chronicles.” May 1978. “additional materials/revision of six-hour script down to two hour version for theatrical release.” 153 pp.
• “The Martian Chronicles.” Screenplay. October 1997. 145 pp (includes 135A).
• Ray Bradbury Theater Teleplays:
  “Banshee.” Season 2, 1987. 31 pp plus title page
  “The Coffin.” Season 3, 1988. 21 pp plus title page
  “The Day it Rained Forever.” Season 5, 1990. Preliminary shooting script (29 pp) and final shooting script (26 pp.) with two letters.
  “Gotcha!” Season 3, 1988. 22 pp plus title page.
  “The Haunting of the New.” Season 4, 1989. 27 pp (pp 12 and 13 are on one page and pp 19 and 20 are on one page) plus title page.
   “The Small Assassin.” Season 3, 1988. 32 pp including one page add-in (p 12A) plus title page and one blank page.
  “The Town Where No One Got Off.” Season 2, 1987. 28 pp including 12A [missing page 13] plus title page.

 

NOVEL MANUSCRIPTS
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• “Where Ignorant Armies Clash by Night.” (This entry is cross-listed under ‘Stories.’) 7 fragment groups. With cover page.
      -Fragment Group 1: Three-Act Dramatic Version. 10 pp.
      -Fragment Group 2: Content Outlines. 5 pp.
      -Fragment Group 3: Front Matter and Opening Sequences. 14 pp. (includes RB drawing)
      -Fragment Group 4: The Mona Lisa Episodes. 7 pp.
      -Fragment Group 5: The Shakespeare Episodes. 12 pp.
      -Fragment Group 6: Two Closing Variants. 4 pp.
      -Fragment Group 7: “Of All Things—Never to Have Been Born is Best.” 7 pp.
• Dandelion Wine. Submitted Manuscript, received back from Doubleday 2-10-1958. Contains copy-edits by Doubleday done in light pencil and very few RB edits/revisions. Contains layout by Doubleday. 12 pp. notes and front-matter, pp 1-354.
• Fahrenheit 451
  --“Long After Midnight.” (Pre-Fahrenheit 451). TS ca 1950. 100 pp. of Continuous draft. 1 group of revisions, 43 pp. 4 pages are handwritten inserts or revisions
  --“The Fire Man.” (1st revision). TS with RB revisions. 99 pp. Missing pp 37, 38. “The Fire Man.” (2nd revision). TS with RB revisions. 21 pp.
• From the Dust Returned.
  --Word-processed typescript. Early draft 4-2000. 40 pp. (page numbers 120-160). Unmarked word-processed typescript.
  --Word-processed typescript. 6-2000. 144 pp.
  Contents: Title page, Dedication page, prologue (“The Beautiful One is Here), Chapter One (“The Town and the Place”), Chapter 2 (“Anuba Arrives”), Chapter 3 (“The High Attic”), Chapter 4 (“The Sleeper and her Dreams”), Chapter 5 (“The Wandering Witch”), Chapter 6 (“Whence Timothy?”), Chapter 7 (“The House, the Spider, and the Child”), Chapter 8 (“Mouse, Far-Traveling”), Chapter 9 (“Homecoming”), Chapter 10 (“Many Returns”), Chapter 11 (“On the Orient North”), [missing pages 75, 76, 77, and 78; and pages 85, 86, 87, 88, and 89 (taken out by Ray for revisions??)] Chapter 15 (“The Whisperers”), Chapter 16 (“The Theban Voices”), Chapter 17 (“Make Haste to Live”), Chapter 18 (“The Chimney Sweeps”), [duplicate pages 112, 113, 114], [missing page 115 (taken out by Ray for revisions??)] Chapter 20 (“Return to the Dust”), [one page insert/revision by Ray to page 138], Chapter 21 (“The One Who Remembers”), Chapter 22 (“The Gift”)
  --Faxed letter from Jennifer Brehl to Ray Bradbury with comments on “the revised version of FROM THE DUST RETURNED.” Sent to Ray Bradbury 8-1-00
  --Copy of Faxed copy of Introduction (“How the Family Gathered”) from Ray Bradbury to?? Sent 8-25-00. 4 pp.
  --Ray Bradbury’s handwritten revisions. 15 pp. This will become the inserts he sends to Jennifer Brehl after Z types them. One page is handwritten, it reads: “Z! KEEP PAGE NUMBERS THE SAME FOR EASY INSERTION TO BOOK! LOVE! PAW!”
  --Faxed letter with revisions and inserts to Jennifer Brehl from Ray Bradbury, sent 8-31-00 and resent 9-8-00. Letter is on Ray Bradbury Enterprises letterhead. Letter, 2 pp.
  Inserts:
  -“BRADBURY SEPT 6TH / INSERTS 76-76A-76B-76C-76D;” 8 pp. Copy of Faxed copy. Faxed 8-22-2000 from A Bradbury 623-535-5645 to Ray Bradbury.
  -“BRADBURY / THE TRAVELER / INSERTS / PAGES 115A-115B-115C-115D;” 4 pp. Copy of Faxed copy. Faxed 8-26-2000 from Ray Bradbury 310-839-8478 to Jennifer Brehl.
  -“BRADBURY / INSERTS / UNCLE EINAR / PAGES 85 TO 89.” 6 pp. Copy of Faxed copy. Faxed 8-23-2000 from A Bradbury 623-535-5645 to Ray Bradbury.
  --Unmarked copy of Chapter 21 (“West of October”). No fax information. Reads: “Bradbury – revised 9/25/00” 17 pp.
  --Complete Word-processed typescript. Two coversheets, one with date: October, 2000. TOC: Prologue and 23 chapters: pp A-D; 1-173.
  --4 pp. unidentified frontmatter
  Notes:
   In the First Edition of From the Dust Returned the Table of Contents remains exactly the same as the word-processed typescript, except Chapter 10: West of October (originally Chapter 21 in typescript) was inserted between chapters “Homecoming” and “Many Returns.”  Also, the introduction (titled “How the Family Gathered”) in the typescript isn’t even listed in the T.O.C. but occurs as pages A-D. In the First Edition these 4 pages occur as an Afterword
• Halloween Tree, The
  -- Story Fragment. 8 pp TS. 8 pp Outline/Notes. December 11, 1959.
  -- First Screenplay. October 1967. 61 pp TS with RB revisions plus title page. Includes: Page 22A insert; letter to Connie from RB between pages 30 and 31; Pages 35B, 35C, 35D, 35E, 35F, and 35G; (pages 37, 38, and 39 are on one page); one page revisions combined pages 54 and 55; Revision to last pages (August 1968) 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60 and 61.
  -- Revised Screenplay TS. August 1968. TS with RB Drawn Title Page. 54 pp plus 2 title pages. Missing page 10
  -- Earliest Novel TS. 1971. 118 pp with RB revisions. 13 Chapters. 17 pp rewrites for pages 75-99
  -- First Draft, Retyped. 1971. 119 pp. plus title page. No revisions
  -- Novel discards (prior to first submission). 110 pp.
  -- Original Submitted Manuscript, returned to RB July 8, 1976. 19 Chapters. With copy-editor’s marks. 152 pp. 4 pp. frontmatter.
  -- Submitted Screenplay. Second Draft, March 30, 1992. 104 pp. Bound

 

ARTICLES/ESSAYS
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• “On Roller Skates in Hollywood.” (Published title) Reader’s Digest. September 1986.
  Notes: This is the uncut, unedited version (originally written for and rejected by Time magazine) of what appeared in Reader’s Digest. Original Title: “This Way, Mr. Muckle, Honey! Hollywood on Roller-Skates: A Remembrance.” 20 pp. TS

 

 

Overview

The Bradbury Center is a repository for unique photocopies of a number of Bradbury manuscript materials. These pre-publication archives (almost always typescripts prepared by Bradbury) mirror the original documents held in the Albright Collection. These photocopies are on deposit courtesy of Professor Albright (Pratt Institute), and are maintained at the Bradbury Center for scholars and general readers who wish to examine them. The finding lists that follow are sorted by genre category, and include typescripts of unpublished stories, typescripts of published stories, magazine first printings and re-printings of published stories, typescripts of Bradbury novels in various stages of completion, and adaptations by Bradbury of his stories and novels for radio, television, stage, and motion picture screenplays. These listings (as well as the accessions themselves) represent an ongoing project, and will be updated frequently as the duplication project continues.

Researchers and other interested readers may arrange to study the photocopies deposited at the Bradbury Center by contacting the Center director in the Institute for American Thought. Photocopies of typescripts in the deposit are not permitted. Permission to quote from these typescripts in a published work must be secured in writing from Professor Albright and from Mr. Bradbury. Acknowledgments must cite these permissions and credit the Bradbury Center for access to the photocopy archive.

Books By Ray Bradbury | Published Story Manuscripts | Published Books Manuscripts | Commercial Anthologies | Unpublished Stories | Plays/Teleplays/Screenplays | Novel Manuscripts | Articles/Essays

BOOKS BY RAY BRADBURY
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Due to the length of this catalog, it is only available through PDF.

The holdings of the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies are listed by title in alphabetical order below. In large part, the center’s collection is based on the research libraries of Professor Eller and Professor Touponce, other volumes represent gifts from Professor Albright (PRATT Institute) and Mr. Greg Miller of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. We are also grateful to Mr. Bradbury for providing presentation copies of certain titles in the collection. Bibliographical descriptions are provisional and will evolve as Bradbury Center scholars prepare a standard bibliography of Bradbury’s works.

PUBLISHED STORY MANUSCRIPTS
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Ray Bradbury has published nearly 450 distinct stories and many subsequent variations as these stories were revised for his story collections and, in some cases, re-written for such novelized story cycles as The Martian Chronicles (1950), Dandelion Wine (1957), and From the Dust Returned (2000). Most of his stories were first published in a wide range of niche market and major market periodicals, and the early history of these stories represents one of the most important areas for Bradbury researchers to explore.

A number of early typescripts prepared by Bradbury have been preserved in the Albright Collection, and a unique photocopy set of these typescripts is on deposit for researchers to study at the Bradbury Center. The typescripts represent multiple stages in the composition and publication process—these stages include Bradbury’s pre-submission story drafts, carbons of his fair-copy magazine submissions, and typescripts made as Bradbury prepared his stories for subsequent publication in his various collections.

The deposit of first-generation photocopies with the Bradbury Center is still in progress. The story typescripts that are already archived at the Bradbury center in this format are listed below. The photocopy typescripts are listed in alphabetical order under the title of first publication. Many of these typescripts have variant titles; cross-references for these variant titles refer the reader to the first published title, where the typescript description and relevant annotations appear.

Each entry in the finding list carries a bibliographical suffix keyed to Professor Eller’s reference bibliography in Eller and Touponce, Ray Bradbury: The Life of Fiction (Kent State UP, 2004, 439-503). This number identifies the year of publication and sequence of publication within a given year; under this system, 53-12 identifies “And So Died Riabouchinska” as the twelfth Bradbury story published during 1953 (a full citation for first publication of all Bradbury stories appears in the “first publication” archive finding list for the Bradbury Center).