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STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1961]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. First printing with code "C22" on page 408. Winner of the 1962 Hugo award for best novel. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-518. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2195-2200.
STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1961]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. First printing with code "C22" on page 408. Winner of the 1962 Hugo award for best novel. "Of all Heinlein's works this is the best known. It reached large audiences farther away from his science fiction roots than anything else he wrote..." "Stranger's cultural impact on an entire generation is, nonetheless, undeniable." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-91. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-518. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2195-2200.
TIME FOR THE STARS
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1956]. Octavo, Illustrated by Clifford Geary, cloth. First edition. "Although written and marketed as a young adult novel, this book is a mature treatment of the relativistic time-dilation effect in interstellar travel."- Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-92.
TIME FOR THE STARS
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1956]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "Although written and marketed as a young adult novel, this book is a mature treatment of the relativistic time-dilation effect in interstellar travel." Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-520.
TIME FOR THE STARS.
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1956]. Octavo, illustrated by Clifford Geary, cloth. First edition. "Although written and marketed as a young adult novel, this book is a mature treatment of the relativistic time-dilation effect in interstellar travel." Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-92.
TO SAIL BEYOND SUNSET: THE LIFE AND LOVES OF MAUREEN JOHNSON...
New York: An Ace/Putnam Book, Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1987]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The author's last novel. The story of the mother of Lazarus Long.
TUNNEL IN THE SKY.
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1955]. Octavo, illustrations by P.A. Hutchison (jacket and title page), cloth. First edition. "A provocative book, especially in its portrait of adults who fail to discern the maturity of young people." Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 5-65.
UNIVERSE.
New York: Published by Dell Publishing Company, Inc., [1951]. Small octavo, cover painting by Robert Stanley, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Dell 10¢ Book 36. Paperback original, a "Dell 10 cent book." First published in Astounding in 1941 this novella is part of the Heinlein's future history series, later expanded into Orphans of the Sky.. Produced as a radio drama for the series Dimension X in 1950 and again for X Minus One in the mid - 1950s.
THE UNPLEASANT PROFESSION OF JONATHAN HOAG.
Hicksville, NY: The Gnome Press, Inc., [1959]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects the title story (a short novel) and five shorter tales, including "All You Zombies, " "They, " and "And He Built a Crooked House." "Robert Heinlein's 'They' is, I believe, the most comprehensive of all mind-invasion stories...[it] is the consummate story of invasion and isolation."-Berger, Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, pp. 110-11. "They" is "perhaps the ultimate solipsist fantasy (a man is convinced the world is a puppet show)."-Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), p. 460. Barron (ed): Horror Literature 3-84. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #793. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels #21, (listed for the title novella).
THE UNPLEASANT PROFESSION OF JONATHAN HOAG.
Hicksville, NY: The Gnome Press, Inc., [1959]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects the title story (a short novel) and five shorter tales, including "All You Zombies, " "They, " and "And He Built a Crooked House." "Robert Heinlein's 'They' is, I believe, the most comprehensive of all mind-invasion stories...[it] is the consummate story of invasion and isolation."-Berger, Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, pp. 110-11. "They" is "perhaps the ultimate solipsist fantasy (a man is convinced the world is a puppet show)."-Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), p. 460. Barron (ed): Horror Literature 3-84. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #793. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels #21, (listed for the title novella).
WALDO AND MAGIC, INC.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects two stories. Barron (ed): Fantasy Literature 3-171.
WALDO AND MAGIC, INC.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by Heinlein on the front free endpaper. Collects two novellas, "Waldo" (Astounding, 1942) and "Magic, Inc." (Unknown, 1940). Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-171. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 792. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 942-44. Baird and Greenwood, An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 1151.
WALDO AND MAGIC, INC.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects two novellas, "Waldo" (Astounding, 1942) and "Magic, Inc." (Unknown, 1940). Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-171. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 792. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 942-44. Baird and Greenwood, An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 1151.
TOMORROW, THE STARS: A SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGY.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1952. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Anthology compiled by Judith Merril and Frederik Pohl (not Heinlein, although he received credit as "editor" and was one of the five "editors" [i.e. readers] credited in the preface). Stories by Jack Finney, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Isaac Asimov, Fritz Leiber and ten others.
TWO TYPEWRITTEN LETTERS SIGNED (TLsS), two pages, dated 23 March 1961 and one page, dated 26 November 1961, both written on his Colorado Springs, Colorado stationery, from Heinlein to "Dear Harold" [Wooster], both signed "Bob," 1 TYPEWRITTEN LETTER SIGNED (TLS), one page, dated 12 July 1963, on ANALOG letterhead, from Campbell to "Dear Mr. Wooster," signed John W. Campbell, plus carbons of Wooster's letters to Heinlein and Graham DuShane, editor of SCIENCE.
The correspondence relates to an article Dr. Wooster wrote on the coining of the word "xenobiology" (the study of the biology of alien life-forms) generally credited to Heinlein for use in "Star Lummox" (F&SF, May-July 1954; STAR BEAST, Scribner's 1954), which incorporates his correspondence with Heinlein, published in SCIENCE 134: 3473 (July 1961) 223-225. Harold Abbott Wooster (1919-2005) was the chief of the information sciences division of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research in the 1960s, a computer pioneer "whose decades-long career in information science influenced the development of computer technology and medical television ... He left the Air Force's scientific research office, which considered him a pioneer in the information science field, in 1970. From 1970 to 1984, Dr. Wooster worked at the National Library of Medicine's Lister Hill Center for Biomedical Communications. He supervised experiments using television to connect patients in remote areas to doctors" (Washington Post obit 3 June 2005). Dr. Wooster published a single SF story, "Y + Sin X," ASTOUNDING (September 1943). See Patterson, William H., Robert A. Heinlein, Volume 2, p. 211.
THE DOOR INTO SUMMER.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "A robotics engineer is cheated out of his patents. He time travels to the future, and then back into the past, in order to put things right and rendezvous with his true love (and his pussycat). A delightful story -- Heinlein at his cheeriest." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 104. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-198. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 23.