First published in Playboy [v8 #3, March 1961]
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 |
|
Tales of Love and Horror | Ballantine Books | Anthology | 106 |
| March 1961 |
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Playboy, March 1961 | HMH Publishing | MAGAZINE | 62 |
| July 1961 |
|
Argosy, July 1961 | Fleetway Publications | MAGAZINE | 60 |
| 1964 |
|
The Machineries of Joy | Hart-Davis | Collection | |
| February 1964 |
|
The Machineries of Joy | Simon & Schuster | Collection | 117 |
| July 1965 |
|
The Machineries of Joy | Bantam Books | Collection | 93 |
| July 1965 |
|
The Machineries of Joy | Bantam Books | Collection | 93 |
| 1966 |
|
The Machineries of Joy | Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers | Collection | 93 |
| 1969 |
|
Machineries of Joy | Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers | Collection | 93 |
| June 1969 |
|
The Machineries of Joy | Bantam Books | Collection | 93 |
| July 1970 |
|
The Machineries of Joy | Bantam Books | Collection | 93 |
| 1971 |
|
Last Train to Limbo | Playboy Press | Anthology | 38 |
| 1972 |
|
Machineries of Joy | Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers | Collection | 93 |
| 1976 | The Machineries of Joy | Bantam Books | Collection | 93 | |
| September 1976 |
|
The Machineries of Joy | Bantam Books | Collection | 105 |
| June 1977 |
|
The Machineries of Joy | Panther / Granada | Collection | 93 |
| October 1980 |
|
The Stories of Ray Bradbury | Alfred A. Knopf | Collection | 608 |
| December 1980 |
|
The Stories of Ray Bradbury | Alfred A. Knopf | Collection | 608 |
| 1981 |
|
The Stories of Ray Bradbury | Granada | Collection | 608 |
| February 1981 |
|
The Stories of Ray Bradbury | Alfred A. Knopf | Collection | 608 |
| 1983 |
|
The Machineries of Joy | Granada | Collection | 93 |
| January 1983 |
|
The Stories of Ray Bradbury Volume 2 | Granada | Collection | |
| February 1983 |
|
The Machineries of Joy | Bantam Books | Collection | 105 |
| 1985 |
|
The Stories of Ray Bradbury Volume 2 | Granada | Collection | |
| 1988 |
|
The Machineries of Joy | Granada | Collection | 93 |
| October 1990 | The Stories of Ray Bradbury | Alfred A. Knopf | Collection | 608 | |
| December 2000 |
|
The Machineries of Joy | Earthlight | Collection | |
| December 2008 |
|
Ray Bradbury Stories Volume 1 | HarperVoyager | Collection | |
| April 2010 |
|
The Stories of Ray Bradbury | Alfred A. Knopf | Collection | |
| April 2010 |
|
The Stories of Ray Bradbury | Alfred A. Knopf | Collection | 731 |
| June 2012 |
|
Ray Bradbury Stories Volume 1 | Harper Voyager (UK) | Collection |