Young Adult
A TOUCH OF CHILL: STORIES OF HORROR, SUSPENSE & FANTASY.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1979. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collection of fifteen stories of horror, mainly aimed at young readers. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-11.
A TOUCH OF CHILL: TALES FOR SLEEPLESS NIGHTS.
New York: Delacorte Press, [1980]. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Signed inscription by Aiken to a mystery book publisher and book seller on the title page. Publisher's review slip laid in. Collection of fifteen stories. The contents of this book differ from the U.K. title of the same name, (nearly half the stories differ). Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-11.
NORBY AND THE LOST PRINCESS.
New York: Walker and Company, [1985]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The third Norby book.
SUMMERLAND.
New York: Miramax Books / Hyperion Books for Children, [2002]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Chabon on the title page. Fantasy which takes place in the world of Summerland, the plot based around the game of baseball.
WHEN THE TRIPODS CAME.
New York: E.P. Dutton, [1988]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U. S. edition. Precedes the British edition. Prequel to the tripod trilogy, the fourth novel featuring the tripods. "...this prequel serves chiefly to describe the establishment of the core of resistance that appears at the opening of THE WHITE MOUNTAINS.... it has the same swift action and sense of menace that has made the original books popular." - Kirkus Reviews, April 1988. See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-244.
A THOUSAND YEARS A MINUTE.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, [1933]. Octavo, original blue cloth, front panel and spine stamped in black. First edition. Second volume of the four volume juvenile series "Adventures in the Unknown". "...the novel aptly represents one of the two authors writing before Heinlein (the other is Roy Rockwood) whose imagination and storytelling ability still stand out." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 5-33.
TALES BEYOND TIME: FROM FANTASY TO SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Company, 1973. Octavo, boards. First edition. Adventures in time and space for children.
MAROONED ON MARS.
Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1958]. Octavo, jacket illustration by Paul Orban, cloth. Later, fifth printing. A Robinsonade set on Mars where Earth's stranded first mission to the seemingly lifeless Red Planet is menaced by rodent-like Martians. Part of the popular Winston juvenile series published between 1952-1961, which introduced many young readers to science fiction.
YOUNG VISITOR TO MARS.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, n.d. (1950's). Octavo, Hardcover. Reprint. A "Young Hero's Library" volume.
THE PLANET MAPPERS.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1955. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Young adult sf adventure novel.
BETWEEN PLANETS.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951. Octavo, illustration by Clifford Geary, cloth. First edition. A Heinlein juvenile novel.
BETWEEN PLANETS.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951. Octavo, illustration by Clifford Geary, cloth. First edition. A Heinlein juvenile novel.
CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1957]. Octavo, Illustration by Leonard Everett Fisher (jacket and title page), cloth. First edition. First serialized in Astounding magazine. "...Heinlein's knack for creating sociologically plausible cultures is well displayed." Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-85, 5-60.
CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1957]. Octavo, Illustration by Leonard Everett Fisher (jacket and title page), cloth. First edition. First serialized in Astounding magazine. "...Heinlein's knack for creating sociologically plausible cultures is well displayed." Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-85, 5-60. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 363-68.
CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1957]. Octavo, Illustration by Leonard Everett Fisher (jacket and title page), cloth. First edition. First serialized in Astounding magazine. "...Heinlein's knack for creating sociologically plausible cultures is well displayed." Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-85, 5-60. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 363-68.
FARMER IN THE SKY.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A Heinlein juvenile novel. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 5-61.
FARMER IN THE SKY.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A Heinlein juvenile novel. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 5-61.
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.
ROCKET SHIP GALILEO.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1947]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. This is the author's first book, preceded by a pamphlet printing a convention speech. "A pioneering novel that began American mainstream science fiction for children and combined young protagonists, gadgetry, current science, and adventure in such a way that even today the book retains interest."- Anatomy of Wonder 5-62. Basis for the 1950 film Destination Moon in which Heinlein also contributed to the writing of the screenplay.
ROCKET SHIP GALILEO.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1947]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The importance of this book cannot be overstated, as it is the first published novel (in book form), by one of the major, if not the most, important science fiction writer of post-war America. Heinlein established himself in the field of science fiction during the golden age of Astounding Science Fiction (starting in 1939), he would later introduce a generation of baby boomer children to this literary genre. After World War II, Heinlein's career expanded the reach of the genre by being published in the 'slick' magazines of the period (Saturday Evening Post and others) and he also began a series of juvenile novels to be published by the mainstream firm of Charles Scribner's Sons. Their reach was wide, especially into the library marketplace were many young children would encounter them. This title is "...the first US juvenile sf novel to reflect the new levels of characterization, style and scientific plausibility now expected in the field", "...it was the first in a series that represents the most important contribution any single writer has made to children's SF..." Clute and Nicholls: The Science Fiction Encyclopedia (1994), p. 554-557. "A pioneering novel that began American mainstream science fiction for children and combined young protagonists, gadgetry, current science, and adventure in such a way that even today the book retains interest." Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 5-62. George Pal's 1950 film Destination Moon is loosely based on ROCKET SHIP GALILEO. Heinlein co-authored the screenplay and served as a technical advisor to the production, along with German rocket expert Hermann Oberth. Destination Moon, the first of Pal's many sf films, "has great historical importance: its commercial success initiated the sf film boom of the 1950s, after a decade that had contained almost no sf cinema at all. It has interest in hindsight, too, in the partial accuracy with which it anticipated the actual Moon landing of 1969. To this day, Destination Moon stands as a film obvious made by people who knew about science..." - Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Science Fiction Encyclopedia (1994), p. 324.
ROCKET SHIP GALILEO.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1947]. Octavo, illustrated by Thomas Voter, cloth. First edition. The importance of this book cannot be overstated, as it is the first published novel (in book form), by one of the major, if not the most, important science fiction writer of post-war America. Heinlein established himself in the field of science fiction during the golden age of Astounding Science Fiction (starting in 1939), he would later introduce a generation of baby boomer children to this literary genre. After World War II, Heinlein's career expanded the reach of the genre by being published in the 'slick' magazines of the period (Saturday Evening Post and others) and he also began a series of juvenile novels to be published by the mainstream firm of Charles Scribner's Sons. Their reach was wide, especially into the library marketplace were many young children would encounter them. This title is "...the first US juvenile sf novel to reflect the new levels of characterization, style and scientific plausibility now expected in the field", "...it was the first in a series that represents the most important contribution any single writer has made to children's SF..." - Clute and Nicholls: The Science Fiction Encyclopedia (1994), p. 554-557. "A pioneering novel that began American mainstream science fiction for children and combined young protagonists, gadgetry, current science, and adventure in such a way that even today the book retains interest." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 5-62. George Pal's 1950 film Destination Moon is loosely based on ROCKET SHIP GALILEO. Heinlein co-authored the screenplay and served as a technical advisor to the production, along with German rocket expert Hermann Oberth. Destination Moon, the first of Pal's many sf films, "has great historical importance: its commercial success initiated the sf film boom of the 1950s, after a decade that had contained almost no sf cinema at all. It has interest in hindsight, too, in the partial accuracy with which it anticipated the actual Moon landing of 1969. To this day, Destination Moon stands as a film obvious made by people who knew about science..." - Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Science Fiction Encyclopedia (1994), p. 324.
THE ROLLING STONES.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1952]. Octavo, illustration by Clifford Geary, cloth. First edition. "...the novel aptly illustrates the author's eminence as writer of science fiction for young readers." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 5-63.