R Is for RocketRay BradburyDoubleday

First edition Hardback

R Is for Rocket (1962)

Ray Bradbury · Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y · Updated 3 Nov 2026

Publisher Doubleday Year 1962

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It is the first edition, which is the one collectors want.
The original dust jacket carries much of the price for a book of this age; its condition matters as much as the book's.
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In short

Quick answer

Who published the R Is for Rocket first edition?: Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y, in 1962, in hardback.

Publisher's practice

How Doubleday marked its first editions

Doubleday's British list is an imprint of Transworld Publishers in London, and its books are identified the British way: a first impression is shown by a complete number line on the copyright page.

A Doubleday UK first impression has a number line that still includes the 1, usually set as 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2, although other orders such as 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1 also occur.
A later impression keeps the line but loses the lowest figure, so a second impression reads 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.
The same convention runs across Doubleday's children's books, which from the 2000s appeared from Random House Children's Books (later Random House Children's Publishers) in London.
The publisher line names Transworld Publishers, London, which tells a London copy apart from the New York Doubleday edition of the same title.

Read the full guide to Doubleday first editions, decade by decade, and check your copy's copyright page against it. Our number line decoder reads the printing from the row of numbers.

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1962

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Who published the R Is for Rocket first edition?

Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y, in 1962, in hardback.

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