Dandelion Wine - Opening

It was a quiet morning, the town covered over with darkness and at ease in bed. Summer gathered in the weather, the wind had the proper touch, the breathing of the world was long and warm and slow. You had only to rise, lean from your window, and know that this indeed was the first real time of freedom and living, this was the first morning of summer.

For Walter I. Bradbury
neither uncle nor cousin
but most decidedly
editor and friend.

AVON BOOKS, INC.
1350 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10019

Introduction copyright 1975 by Ray Bradbury
Copyright 1946, 1947, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1957 by Ray Bradbury
Interior design by Kellan Peck


First Avon Books Printing: February 1999

Printed in the U.S.A