Signed lower left

Jerry Weist, author of Bradbury – An Illustrated Life; Estate of the above; Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2014.

Joseph Anthony Mugnaini (American, 1912-1992) The Garbage Collector, The Golden Apples of the Sun book interior, 1953 Ink and gouache on paper 6-1/4 x 8 inches (15.9 x 20.3 cm) (image) Signed lower left The present work is published in The Golden Apples of the Sun by Ray Bradbury (Doubleday and Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953). This illustration was subsequently published in later editions and in paperback editions of The Golden Apples of the Sun for well over 2 decades. It was also reproduced in Joseph Mugnaini – Drawings and Graphics (Scarecrow Press, 1982). PROVENANCE: Jerry Weist, author of Bradbury – An Illustrated Life; Estate of the above; Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2014. From the author's introduction to his collection Bradbury Stories - 100 of his Most Celebrated Tales (2005): "The Garbage Collector was inspired by my reaction to a newspaper item that appeared in the Los Angeles newspapers in early 1952, when the mayor announced that if an atomic bomb fell on Los Angeles, the resulting bodies would be picked up by garbage collectors. I was so inflamed by this remark that I sat down and wrote the story, fueled by my outrage." And In 2010 the story The Garbage Collector was included in a collection of early works by the author, whose characters inhabited the same bleak, dystopian world imagined in Bradbury's seminal work, Fahrenheit 451, A Pleasure to Burn - Fahrenheit 451 Stories (Subterranean Press, 2010). HID12401132022 © 2024 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved

Condition report available upon request. Framed Dimensions 11.25 X 13 Inches