r/RayBradbury

Article by me. Rush factors prominently. https://www.grunge.com/2234713/rock-songs-didnt-know-based-on-books/

I called the Annex Galleries about this print after my last post. They were kind enough to reserve Mugnaini's artwork for me to purchase. When it arrived two weeks later, I got it framed by an Italian family-owned picture frame shop.

Now, I'm the proud pet owner of the Hypodermic Hound, the Mechanical Hound.

Here are the gallery catalog details:

Title

The Hypodermic Hound, a.k.a. The Hound, for 'Fahrenheit 451', 1982.

Artist

Joseph Anthony Mugnaini  1912 - 1992 (biography)

Year

1981  

Technique

Color lithograph 

Image Size

16 x 18 7/8" image 

20 x 26" sheet

24 x 28" mat

Signature

Pencil, lower right 

Edition Size

Artist's proof outside the edition of 150 

Annotations

Titled in pencil and editioned 

Reference

Used as an image to illustrate Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451", New York: Limited Editions Club, 1982.

Paper

Ivory wove Arches, with two cropped lithographs by Millard Sheets on the verso.

State

Proof

Publisher

Ballentine Books for the republished edition, after the first edition was censored. 

Inventory ID

24176

Description

This impression has two small color lithographs, printed as proofs, on the verso. One, or both, might be by Millard Sheets who also worked with master printer Lynton Kistler.

This composition is from a portfolio of ten color lithographs created by Mugnaini, with interpretive captions authored by Ray Bradbury. Corresponding text printed on inside cover: "In a world where books are burned, send the Hound forth, with hypodermic muzzle, to hunt, find, anesthetize, destroy those who dare to read."

The edition of 150 was produced for the portfolio "Ten Views of the Moon" for Ray Bradbury. One of the greatest science fiction writers of the 20th century, Bradbury authored such classics as "The Martian Chronicles," "The Illustrated Man," "Fahrenheit 451," and "Something Wicked This Way Comes."The writer and the artist met in Los Angeles in 1952 and Mugnaini went on to illustrate many of Bradbury's works, including "Fahrenheit 451."

In 1967, Ballantine Books published a special school edition of Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" that eliminated two minor incidents and words such as 'hell', 'damn' and 'abortion'. Ironically, the censorship of this book about censorship and expurgation was unknown to Bradbury. He eventually found out and demanded that the full text be reinstated. Some editions now have a 'coda' penned by Bradbury: 'I will not go gently onto a shelf, degutted, to become a non-book.' The Hypodermic Hound on display is by the artist Joseph Mugnaini. This image was included in this second printing."

the 1953 EC Comics adaptation of Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains," first published in Weird Fantasy #17.

I started reading thanks to Ray Bradbury’s Illustrated Man when I was just a kid. I still remember the first time I experienced stories like The Vauldt and Kaleidoscope. So much heart, and beauty, and terror all in one.

I haven’t enjoyed less scifi’y stories like Dandelion Wine and to a lesser extent Something Wicked.

Where would you recommend I go next? Pictured are the 5 books of his I read ranked/in order based on some fun head to head matchups of my library/reading history. Thanks!