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Description

Heading:
Author: Heinlein, Robert A.
Title: Rocket Ship Galileo
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Charles Scribner's Sons
Date Published: [1947]
Description:

Illustrated by Thomas W. Voter. (8vo) decorative black cloth stamped in green, color pictorial jacket. First Edition, First printing.

With Scribner's seal and "A" on copyright page. Heinlein's first title to be published in hardcover and his first in a series of books aimed at a young adult audience. "A pioneering novel that began American mainstream SF for children and combined young protagonists, gadgetry, current science, and adventure in such a way that even today the book retains interest" - Barron AW, 5-63; Currey p. 234.

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Jacket worn and toned, large chip lost, tears along folds; faint rubbing to cloth; foxing to endpapers; very good in good jacket.

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Heinlein's 1st published novel, 1st ed.

Name: Heinlein's 1st published novel, 1st ed.
SKU: 131521076
Price: 400 USD
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