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THE GREEN HILLS OF EARTH...
Chicago: Shasta Publishers, [1951]. Octavo, cover illustration by Hubert Rogers, cloth backed boards. First edition. One of the undetermined number of subscriber copies, signed by Heinlein on the half title page. Short stories forming part of Heinlein's "future history" series. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-514. See Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1645-54.
GRUMBLES FROM THE GRAVE ...
New York: Ballantine Books, [January 1990, i.e. November 1989]. Octavo, pp. [i-viii] ix-xviii, [1-2] 3-281 [282-283] [284-286: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], illustrations, cloth-backed boards. First edition. A selection of letters written by Heinlein between 1939 and 1972, mainly to his editors (including John W. Campbell) and his longtime agent Lurton Blassingame. Appendixes include "Cuts in Red Planet" and "'Postlude' to Podkayne of Mars–Original Version." Edited, with "A Short Biography of Robert A. Heinlein" and other material, by Virginia Heinlein.
I WILL FEAR NO EVIL.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1970]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed inscription by the Heinlein on the front free end paper and again signed on the title page.
JOB: A COMEDY OF JUSTICE.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1984]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition.
THE MAN WHO SOLD THE MOON ...
Chicago: Shasta Publishers, [1950]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Inscribed and signed on the title page in Virginia Heinlein's hand. Inscribed and signed on the dedication page as Robert & Ginny in Heinlein's hand. (Note: the dedication of the book is to Ginny [Heinlein]. A collection of short stories which is the first volume in Heinlein's "future history" series. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-514. See Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1645-54.
THE MAN WHO SOLD THE MOON.
Chicago: Shasta Publishers, [1950]. Octavo, illustrated by Hubert Rogers, cloth. First edition. A collection of short stories which constitute the first volume in Heinlein's "future history" series. See Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-89.
THE MENACE FROM EARTH.
Hicksville: The Gnome Press, Inc., [1959]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collection of eight stories. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-87.
METHUSELAH'S CHILDREN.
Hicksville: Gnome Press, [1958]. Octavo, original black boards, spine printed in red. First edition, first binding. Part of the "future history" series. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-204.
METHUSELAH'S CHILDREN.
Hicksville: Gnome Press, [1958]. Octavo, original black boards, spine printed in red. First edition. Part of the "future history" series. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-204.
METHUSELAH'S CHILDREN.
Hicksville: Gnome Press, [1958]. Octavo, original black boards, spine printed in red. First edition, first binding. Part of the "future history" series. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-514.
THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST ...
New York: Fawcett Columbine, [1980]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First U.S. edition, trade paperback issue. An homage to and parody of the Mars novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, written in a pulpy 1930s style, based on the premise of numerous parallel worlds created by the act of imagining them. "An amazing farrago of SF and fantasy in which various fictional worlds intersect and the characters come to realize that they themselves are equally unreal. Lazarus Long (from TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE) and Jubal Harshaw (from STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND) turn up again, as do many other familiar figments. It's all very jokey on the surface, but a desperate nightmare of solipsism seems to lie below. Dreadful old rubbish: one of Heinlein's worst." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 261. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions.
THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST.
New York: Fawcett Columbine, [1980]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First U.S. edition. Trade paperback issue. Illustrated by Richard Powers. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions.
THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST.
New York: Fawcett Columbine, [1980]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions.
THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST.
New York: Fawcett Columbine, [1980]. Octavo, Illustrations by Richard Powers, pictorial wrappers. First U. S. edition. Trade paperback issue. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions.
ORPHANS OF THE SKY.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1963. Octavo, boards. First edition. Preceded the 1964 Putnam edition. Part of Heinlein's "future history" series, first published as a two-part serial in Astounding Science Fiction in 1941 as "Universe" and "Common Sense." Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-88. See Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1653-64.
ORPHANS OF THE SKY.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1963. Octavo, boards. First edition. Preceded the 1964 Putnam edition. Part of Heinlein's "future history" series, first published as a two-part serial in Astounding Science Fiction in 1941 as "Universe" and "Common Sense." Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-88. See Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1653-64.
ORPHANS OF THE SKY.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1964]. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Part of Heinlein's "future history" series, first published as a two-part serial in Astounding Science Fiction in 1941 as "Universe" and "Common Sense." Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-513. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. See Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1653-64.
PODKAYNE OF MARS: HER LIFE AND TIMES.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1963]. Octavo, jacket art by Irv Doktor, cloth. First edition. The author's last juvenile novel.
PODKAYNE OF MARS: HER LIFE AND TIMES.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1963]. Octavo, jacket art by Irv Doktor, cloth. First edition. The author's last juvenile novel.
PODKAYNE OF MARS: HER LIFE AND TIMES.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1963]. Octavo, jacket art by Irv Doktor, cloth. First edition. The author's last juvenile novel.
PODKAYNE OF MARS: HER LIFE AND TIMES.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1963]. Octavo, jacket art by Irv Doktor, cloth. First edition. The author's last juvenile novel.
THE PUPPET MASTERS.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Filmed in 1994 with Donald Sutherland. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-205. Pringle: Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels #4.
THE PUPPET MASTERS.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Parasitic slug "masters" from outer space "attach themselves to human hosts and control their every thought and action ... Speaking through a host, a master offers mankind a life of contentment, peace, and security of surrender, and the offer appears genuine ... [The novel] allegorizes modern anxiety about the preservation of freedom ... Heinlein anticipates that moment when a man must make the fateful choice between security and freedom." - Berger, Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, p. 106. "Fast-moving tale of paranoid (anti-Communist?) fears run wild. Well handled, a classic of its type." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 291. Filmed in 1994 with Donald Sutherland. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-205. Pringle: Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels #4.
THE PUPPET MASTERS.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1979. Octavo, cloth. First printing of the Gregg Press edition. New introduction by James Gunn. Parasitic slug "masters" from outer space "attach themselves to human hosts and control their every thought and action ... Speaking through a host, a master offers mankind a life of contentment, peace, and security of surrender, and the offer appears genuine ... [The novel] allegorizes modern anxiety about the preservation of freedom ... Heinlein anticipates that moment when a man must make the fateful choice between security and freedom." - Berger, Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, p. 106. "Fast-moving tale of paranoid (anti-Communist?) fears run wild. Well handled, a classic of its type." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 291. Filmed in 1994 with Donald Sutherland. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-205. Pringle: Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels #4.
RED PLANET.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949. Octavo, illustration by Clifford Geary, cloth. First edition. Heinlein's third juvenile novel, and one that introduced many young boys to science fiction. "...[Heinlein] came fully into his own as a writer of sf for teenagers. A strong narrative line, carefully worked-out technical detail, realistic characters and brisk dialogue are the leading virtues of this and most of his later juveniles..."- Clute and Nichols (eds.): The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, p. 555.