Reading, Pa.(1953): Fantasy Press. First Edition. Octavo. 255(1) pp. The United States after World War III. A world where intrigue, mystery and violence appear to be the normal order of life. Thus begins one of the most gripping and exciting stories ever written by Heinlein. And it is only one..... More
London; (1973): Sidgwick and Jackson. First UK Edition. Small Octavo. 348 pages. This collection was published for the British market at about the same time that Time Enough for Love was published. It is interesting as the sole example of an attempt to place significant examples of Heinlein's work in..... More
New York; (1985): G.P. Putnam's Sons. Limited Edition. Octavo. Color frontispiece, 382pp., Limited to only 350 copies numbered and signed by the author. Follows the dashing Colonel Colin Campbell, a philosopher/soldier/rogue, on a whirlwind adventure from orbiting luxury condos to the Wild West free-enterprise zones of the Moon to the..... More
New York; (1985): G.P. Putnam's Sons. First Edition. Octavo. 2nd issue corrected. 382pp., Here we follow Colonel Colin Campbell, a character in the fine Heinlein tradition of philosopher/soldier/rogue, on a whirlwind adventure that's part Tom Jones, part Star Wars, part The Time Machine and unfailingly Heinlein. Here are imaginary places..... More
Boston: Gregg Press(a Division of G.K. Hall and co), 1979. Octavo. First printing by this Press. Signed by David G. Hartwell who did the new introduction. Frontispiece, (12) othe full page photographic images from the 1950 movie. xiii pages, pages 122-176, 24 pages : Gregg Press science fiction series. Contains..... More
New York; (1982): Holt, Reinhart and Winston. First Edition. Octavo. 368 pages. Inscribed by the author. A beautiful interplanetary agent, a glorious product of genetic engineering, operates from and over a near-future Earth. Poul Anderson called this one of Heinlein's best with a "superbly realized heroine". Frederick Pohl describes how..... More
New York; (1982): Holt, Reinhart and Winston. First Edition. Octavo. 368 pages. Limited to 500 copies signed by Heinlein. A beautiful interplanetary agent, a glorious product of genetic engineering, operates from and over a near-future Earth. Bound in maroon cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, spine gilt, top edge stained..... More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1966. Octavo. . 426pp., The publisher's present three stories. Two of the stories presented for the first time, Puppet Masters is one of his most famous. The Puppet Masters are invaders from another world who bring with them parasitic slugs which an dominate man's physical and..... More
New York; (1984): Ballantine Books. First Edition. Octavo. . Limited to 750 copies signed by the author. The present copy is #264. The New York Times Best Seller, Heinlein's thought-provoking story of various notions of Heaven, Hell, deities, and the destiny of Humanity. An amusing story. Bound in red cloth..... More
New York; (1959): Gnome Press. First Edition. Octavo. 259 pages The scientist in Heinlein's "Goldfish Bowl" who cannot positively ascertain into whose power he has fallen and where he is, but who nevertheless develops ingenious hypotheses and arrives at the correct conclusion - namely, that his body, upon which he..... More
New York; (1941) But [1958]: Gnome Press. First Edition. Octavo. First issue with red lettering on black cloth spine [Currey, Binding A", with first issue dust jacket showing publisher's address at 80 east 11th st New York with list of 35 titles of Gnome science fiction classics. 188 pages. Anatomy..... More
New York; (1941) but[1958]: Gnome Press, 1958. Octavo. A later printing with a very bright unclipped dust jacket omitting the address of Gnome Press, with two old tape mends to underside and in a later state binding of light green paper covered boards, spine lettering black, page before title page..... More
London: Victor Gollancz, 1963. First U.K. Edition. Octavo. 192 pages. Originally printed in 1941 in Astounding Science Fiction, he lengthened it in 1958 for the American edition. Gollancz published this edition in a small print run since it was central to his five-volume imaginative History of the Future. A very..... More
New York; (1941) But [1958]: Gnome Press. First Edition. Octavo. First issue with red lettering on black cloth spine [Currey, Binding A", with first issue dust jacket showing publisher's address at 80 east 11th St. New York with list of 35 titles of Gnome science fiction classics. 188 pages. Anatomy..... More
New York; (1966): G.P. Putnam's Sons. First Edition. Octavo. 383 pages, $5.95 not-price clipped. One of the top 25 science fiction works of all time along with his Stranger in a Strange Land. Heinlein's libertarian ideas anticipated a nightmare future where computers could develop self-awareness. This was two years before..... More
London; (1977): New English Library. First Editions. Octavo. Book One, 320 pages; Book Two, 347 pages. The omnibus of Heinlein's Future History, The Past through Tomorrow, is a key to his Future History concept. The first story, "Life-Line," is about Dr. Hugo Pinero's machine which measures the duration of individual..... More
New York, (1947): Charles Scribner’s Sons, First Edition. Octavo. The author’s first book for boys. 212pp., illustrated by Thomas W. Voter. The story of three boys who accompany a scientist on the first piloted rocket ship flight to the moon. Bound in black pictorial cloth depicting a blue-green rocket ship..... More
New York (1952): Charles Scribner's Sons. First Edition. Octavo. . 276pp., illustrated by Clifford Geary. "The Stones were a space minded family, so it was not surprising when the seventeen-year-old twins, Caster and Pollux, bought a second-hand spaceship. They named it The Rolling Stone, and the whole family started off..... More
New York; (1949): Gnome Press. First Edition. Octavo. 256 pages. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 221. In his masterful work, a small group of research scientists led by a public-relations man defeat an entire army of highly trained sophisticated, intelligent Pan-Asians. From a cave in the wilderness..... More
New York; (1987): G.P. Putnam's Sons. First Edition. Octavo. 416pp. Heinlein has written a novel that is the culmination of his life's work, tying together themes and characters from previous stories as no book has done before. He has included Pixel, the well-known cat of The Cat Who Walks Through..... More
New York; (1959): Gnome Press. First Edition. Octavo. . 256pp. In this case, a routine private-eye investigation unfolds into an inquiry into the ultimate nature of reality with similarly unsettling discoveries about who runs the show. Heinlein's genius allows the reader to think about the ambiguities of a world that..... More
New York: Doubleday, 1950. First Edition. Octavo. 219 pages. Originally published as two separate short stories. Here, Heinlein collects to present a fantasy of a major disaster that large power companies cannot solve but Waldo, a genius does with what appears to be magic. Bound in blue cloth, spine lettering..... More