THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN

This 1953 short story collection has a strange history of mutation. It seems each of Bradbury's publisher's felt the title, The Golden Apples of the Sun, should be applied to a different group of Bradbury's stories.

In 1966, the stories in from first edition of Golden Apples were combined with another collection, A Medicine for Melancholy, to create a larger collection called Twice 22.

In the early 1990s, Bantam combined the Golden Apples stories with stories from R is For Rocket to create the paperback Ray Bradbury: Classic Stories I. This was soon followed by an Avon version of The Golden Apples of the Sun which excluded several of the best stories, but included most of R is For Rocket. 

CONTENTS:

• The Fog Horn
• The Pedestrian
• The April Witch
• The Wilderness
• The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl
• Invisible Boy
• The Flying Machine
• The Murderer
• The Golden Kite, The Silver Wand
• I See You Never
• Embroidery
• The Big Black and White Game
• A Sound of Thunder
• The Great Wide World Over There
• Powerhouse
• En La Noche
• Sun and Shadow
• The Meadow
• The Garbage Collector
• The Great Fire
• Hail and Farewell
• The Golden Apples of the Sun

PUBLISHING INFORMATION:

• First hardcover edition: Doubleday, 1953. Two printings -- March and April 1953.
• First UK hardcover edition: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953. This addition is abridged from the US edition.
• First paperback edition: Bantam, 1954. Eleven printings through 1972. (Bantam #A1241)
• First UK paperback edition: Corgi, 1956. (Corgi #1241)
• Hardcover: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 1971. Illustrated by Joe Mugnaini.
• Trade paperback edition: Avon Books, 1997. Contents differ significantly from all previous editions. The stories "The Pedestrian," "The Invisible Boy," "A Sound of Thunder" and "Hail and Farewell" are omitted. Most of the stories from R is for Rocket are included. ISBN #0380730391
• Econo-clad Hardcover: Avon Books, 1999. Hardbound edition of the 1997 Avon paperback version.