Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Robert A. Heinlein. Beyond This Horizon. Grosset & Dunlap, 1948.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Clean sturdy copy in brown cloth cover. "Science Fiction Classics" on cover. No dj. Copyright 1948 by arrangement Fantasy Press. Original copyright date is 1942.
Seller: Amazing Books Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
Heinlein,Robert. Beyond This Horizon. Fantasy Press, 1948.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Heinlein, Robert : Beyond This Horizon. Reading (PA) : Fantasy Press, 1948. First edition/First impression. Robert Breck illustrations. Duodecimo size (12mo), 7.75"/19.6cm h. Bound in publisher's burnt orange cloth, gilt lettering/ornamentation to spine. Lacking dust-jacket. Plain white endpapers. [Xii] pp prelim material, 242 numbered pp, plus two blank; frontispiece plus three additional sheets b&w illus on coated paper. Condition notes: a worn but solid and noteworthy copy of a collectible early Heinlein novel. Lacking dust-jacket. Boards worn and stained, loss of brightness to spine gilt; a private/handwritten catalog number to spine. Spine ends rolled, corners bumped. Spine cocked. Light soiling/tanning to textblock edges. Interior tanned but clean. Tail front pastedown retains classic/historic book label ("Hampels Bookshop Milwaukee"). Former owner's name to front free endpaper - "R.A. Greiner" - longtime University of Wisconsin electrical and computer engineering professor, and founder of the Doc Greiner Research Observatory. We personally inspect every book we offer.
Seller: Furrowed Brow Books, IOBA, St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
HEINLEIN, Robert A.. Beyond This Horizon. Fantasy Press, Reading, Pennsylvania, 1948.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Octavo. Illustrated green and red dust jacket, illustrations by Robert Breck. Good, ex-lending library copy, dust jacket chipped heaviest at spine head, rubbing to front panel, smudging at rear panel, cocked, library stamp at front end papers, pages agetoned.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.. Beyond This Horizon. Fantasy Press, 1948.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Four black and white illustrations. Interior of book is clean. Couple of spots on side page edges. Dust jacket has holes and is worn. Price of $3.00 is unclipped Pictures on request
Seller: Old Village Books, Mt. Pleasant, SC, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.. Beyond This Horizon. Fantasy Press, Reading PA, 1948.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Smoke damaged, no dustjacket -- spine somewhat rolled. But still a copy of Heinlein's first novel in solid condition, not ex-library.
Seller: The Other Change of Hobbit, Richmond, CA, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert. Beyond This Horizon. Fantasy Press, Reading, 1948.
Price: US$67.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1/3497 Copies. Correct First Binding, With Both Final Leaf And Final Free Endpaper Present, And With Publisher's Name On Spine Measuring 3Mm In Height. Spine And Covers Faded To Salmon, Spine A Little Lighter Salmon, With Tiny Hole At Top Of Cloth. Without The Dust Jacket.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.. Beyond This Horizon. Fantasy Press, Reading PA, 1948.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Spine is sun faded. Front and back covers are unevenly faded/ spotted. Contents vg+. ; 8vo
Seller: Novel Ideas Books & Gifts, Decatur, IL, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert. BEYOND THIS HORIZON. Fantasy Press, 1948.
Price: US$92.80 + shipping
Description: BEYOND THIS HORIZON, Fantasy Press, 1948, first edition, some soiling to covers, else a vg copy. 1/2,500 copies.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Heinlein,Robert. Beyond This Horizon. Fantasy Press, 1948.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: This is a Facsimile first edition copy with slipcase. Dust jacket shows some very very minor shelf wear. Otherwise like new.
Seller: Half Moon Books, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.
HEINLEIN, Robert A.. Beyond This Horizon. Fantasy Press, Reading, Pennsylvania, 1948.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. Good or better copy cocked, with ink owner name, sunned spine and bumped corners in about very good dust jacket with chips at the spine ends, hint of spine sunning and moderate edgewear.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.. Beyond This Horizon. Fantasy Press, Reading, Pa., 1948.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 242 pp. Red boards with gold lettering ont he spine only. Slight rubbing and wear to the boards and fading on spine particularly. Outside edges of pages show some foxing. Endpapers are slightly toned. Interior is clean and unmarked; the binding is square and tight. Unclipped, pictorial dust jacket is mylar-covered. Top of spine is slightly torn, but does not affect readability. A gift-worthy edition from a beloved science fiction author. Size: Octavo
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.; illustrated by Robert Breck. Beyond This Horizon. Fantasy Press, 1948.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Red cloth. First edition. Edges show some very light fading, small bookstore sticker affixed at back endpaper. otherwise book is excellent, very clean and sharp and tight. Dust jacket has smallish chips and wear to corners and top/bottom of spine, 1.5 inch scuff-rub at spine, light toning to back. otherwise a presentable jacket, now protected in a clear cover. Photos on request.
Seller: Recycle Bookstore, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Original red cloth, very good, in good plus dust jacket with the original price intact on the front flap, wear to spine ends, somewhat dusty.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Robert A. Heinlein. Beyond This Horizon. Fantasy Press, Reading, PA, 1948.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Stated first edition of the author's second book, with illustrations by Robert Breck.Head and foot of spine are bumped and some light discoloration of the board edges. The dj is good with light wear overal and some chipping along the edges.
Seller: Proteus Bound, Chesterton, IN, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert. Beyond This Horizon. Fantasy Press, Reading, 1948.
Price: US$315.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1/3497 Copies. Red Cloth, Gilt. Correct First Binding, With One Final Leaf And One Final Free Endpaper, And With Publisher's Name On Spine Measuring 3Mm In Height. Fine Book, No Wear Or Fading, No Names Or Marks. Dj Complete, Not Price Clipped, Light Wear, Two Short (Under 1/8") Tears At Top Of Front Panel With 1" Light Connecting Crease, 1/8" Chip At Bottom Rear Flap Fold, Minute Losses At Other Tips, Some Fading Of Red Title On Spine, Now Pink.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Robert A. Heinlein. Beyond This Horizon. Fantasy Press, Reading, PA, 1948.
Price: US$331.05 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, 1948, Nice clean and bright, tight copy with no markings, dust jacket has two very small rips on front crease, apx 1 inch tear on back corner at crease.
Seller: Jeanne D'Arc Books, St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Robert A. Heinlein. Beyond This Horizon. Reading: Fantasy Press, 1948.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Stated first. DJ shows minor rubbing, not price-clipped. Pages clean. A copy in near fine condition.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
HEINLEIN,ROBERT A. BEYOND THIS HORIZON. FANTASY PRESS, 1948.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: HARDBACK BOOK AND DUST JACKET IN NEAR FINE CONDITION,FACSIMILE FIRST EDITION,[FIRST EDITION LIBRARY 1976] IN NEAR FINE SLIPCASE
Seller: Bingo Books 2, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
HEINLEIN, ROBERT A.. BEYOND THIS HORIZON. , 1948.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: HEINLEIN, Robert A. BEYOND THIS HORIZON. Illustrated by Robert Breck. Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1948. First trade edition. 8vo, red cloth. Some spotting of cloth. A very good copy, in a slightly edgeworn dust jacket, with one tiny chip at the corner, mildly soiled at rear panel, though the cover illustration is still quite sharp and clean.
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert. BEYOND THIS HORIZON. Fantasy Press, 1948.
Price: US$435.00 + shipping
Description: BEYOND THIS HORIZON, Fantasy Press, 1948, first edition, vg+ or better in vg/vg+ color pictorial dust-wrapper with some light rubbing to the dust-wrapper spine and rear dust-wrapper panel and a tiny chip missing from the head of the dust-wrapper spine. 1/2,500 copies.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert. BEYOND THIS HORIZON / *** ASSOCIATION COPY ***. Fantasy Press, 1948.
Price: US$435.00 + shipping
Description: *** ASSOCIATION COPY ***BEYOND THIS HORIZON, Fantasy Press, 1948, first edition, spotting to the covers, fading to the spine, upper front corner tips bumped affecting some of the text block, apparent insect damage to the paste-downs, else a good to very good copy with the book-plate of fellow science fiction author Hal Clement on the f.p.d. SIGNED by the author on the title page. 1/2,500 copies.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.. BEYOND THIS HORIZON .. fantasy press,, 1948.
Price: US$576.00 + shipping
Description: fine book fine dust jacket slight rubbing
Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, webster, NY, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A. Beyond This Horizon. Fantasy Press, 1948.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: #334 of 500, dust jacket art by A. J. Donnell
Seller: Stuart W. Wells III, Norwalk, CT, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.. BEYOND THIS HORIZON .. Fantasy Press, Reading, Pennsylvania, 1948.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by Heinlein. This copy is inscribed by Heinlein to Daniel R. Meyer whose bookplate is affixed to the front paste-down. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-506. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 234. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 207-12. In 333. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with a touch of wear to lower edge, mainly spine panel, and rubbing to black background ink at top and bottom edges of the front panel. Enclosed in a custom green cloth clamshell box. (#141026)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.. BEYOND THIS HORIZON .. Fantasy Press, Reading, Pennsylvania, 1948.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by Heinlein. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-506. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 234. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 207-12. In 333. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with just a touch of rubbing to black background ink. A very nice copy. (#150324)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.. BEYOND THIS HORIZON .. Fantasy Press, Reading, Pennsylvania, 1948.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. Presentation copy with signed inscription by Heinlein to early SF fan Mrs. Arthur G. Archer on front free endpaper, and additionally signed by Heinlein on the title page. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-506. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 234. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 207-12. In 333. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with hint of rubbing to tail of spine panel and front corner tips and touch dust soiling to rear panel. The trade issue of this book is rarely found inscribed or signed by Heinlein. A sharp copy. (#106923)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.