Heinlein, Robert. Double Star. Michael Joseph, 1958.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First UK edition. Original cloth with white lettering. Ex-institutional library copy with stamps on prelims and margins of some pages, bookplate on paste down, back board a little dampstained. No dust jacket.

Seller: Singing Saw Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

HEINLEIN, Robert. Double Star [HUGO AWARD]. Michael Joseph, London, 1958.

Price: US$220.00 + shipping

Description: First Impression. Octavo. (19cm.); black boards titled in white on spine; dustjacket; 208pp.; faint spotting on the front board; foxing at the margins of the first and last few pages only; titles on spine are bright. Very Good+. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced 13s 6d net); tiny nicks only along top edge; a few small chips to the lower edge at spine tail and flaps; faint soiling to rear white panel; Very Good+. Winner of the Hugo award for Best Novel. "An actor is coerced into impersonating a kidnapped politician. The politician is recovered but soon dies. His staff persudes the actor to continue to act and carry out the ambitions of the politician." (BARRON 3-199).

Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.

HEINLEIN, Robert.. DOUBLE STAR.. Michael Joseph, London, 1958. First U.K. edition., 1958.

Price: US$233.90 + shipping

Description: 8vo, 208pp. A very good hardback copy in like dust jacket with mild foxing to rear. Offsetting to half-title.

Seller: Sainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd., Camberwell, VIC, Australia

Robert Heinlein. Double Star. Michael Joseph, 1958.

Price: US$282.21 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Black boards and spine, the latter lettered in white. Apart from 7 mm split on top rear corner and minimal abrasions to two of the other corners, the jacket is undamaged; the rear white panel a tad soiled with a scattering of small brown marks. A few foxing spots to fore-edge. Internally bands of offsetting to free endpapers, also affecting half-title; ffep and half-title foxed; pages 204 - 206 have 1 cm brown marks in top corners. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

Seller: Hugh Hardinge Books, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Heinlein, Robert. DOUBLE STAR. Michael Joseph, 1958.

Price: US$1628.50 + shipping

Description: FIRST HUGO WINNING TITLE IN AN ADVANCE ISSUE DOUBLE STAR, Michael Joseph, 1958, first English edition, vg+ in wraps. Uncorrected proof. The authors first of four HUGO winning novels. (To the best of my knowledge, the authors earliest HUGO winning title to appear on the market in an advance issue; the American Doubleday galley never being seen by this cataloguer. Indeed, only the second advance issue I've ever seen offered of any of the authors four HUGO winning titles, the galleys for THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS appearing in another dealers catalogue in 1982). Authors signature laid in. Housed in a specially made custom tray-case. Rare.

Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.