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Robert A. Heinlein. Farnham's Freehold. G.P. Putnam's Sons / SFBC, New York, 1964.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: This is the Putnam/SFBC book club edition. The book is in near fine condition, marred only by bumps on its cover's corners and spine ends. Its binding is sound and square. Covers and pages are unmarked and otherwise unworn. Its dust jacket, now protected by a removable mylar cover, is in very good condition: whole, bright and unmarked, with light wear on its spine ends and along its front flap fold. I will ship this book in a moisture proof zip-loc bag, padded in bubble wrap, inside a sturdy box to assure it reaches its new owner in the same condition as my description. Simply noted: there is no printing "gutter code" on any pages of this book.
Seller: Space Age Books LLC, Conroe, TX, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.. Farnham's freehold. G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1964.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hardcover. A very good copy with a bumped, end of spine and slight separating book from the jacket The jacket is near fine with wear to the edges.
Seller: Gebhard and Burkhart Books, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
Robert Heinlein. Farnham's Freehold. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1964.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "Farnham's Freehold" by ROBERT HEINLEIN with its original dust jacket. 1964; G.P. Putnam's Sons - Book of the Month Club edition; New York. From a review: "A nuclear holocaust throws a brave and tough-minded family into a future where they are considered traitors and sub-humans and where they must fight tooth-and-claw to avoid becoming slaves to the benighted survivors of the war." Condition: Clean covers and spine. Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. Both covers are firmly attached. Nice interior - the pages are clean and appear unread with no notable issues found. Overall the book is in Very Good+ condition. The dust jacket has tears along the perimeter, most notable a 2" vertical tear at the bottom-left corner of the front cover; the back cover is lightly tanned and has a thin light stain along the right edge; tanning along the crease between the rear flap and back cover.overall the jacket is in Good- condition.
Seller: CraigsClassics, Hudson, NH, U.S.A.
Robert A. Heinlein. Farnham's Freehold, A Novel. N.Y.: G.P.Putnam, 1964, N.Y., 1964.
Price: US$193.92 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: Yellow HC; yellow top end pages; Author of 'Glory Road'; previous owner's name on inside front dj flap; dj by Irv Docktor
Seller: Booksdoc, Russell, ON, Canada
Heinlein, Robert. Farnham's Freehold. G. P. Putnam's, New York, 1964.
Price: US$260.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing of first edition. Very Good in a Good+ dust jacket. Top page edges dyed yellow. Black cloth binding with light nudges to two corners and at top edge of rear board. Gold-colored lettering on spine a bit rubbed in spots, but still quite legible. No writing or ownership marks. Very slightly cocked. Jacket with a few small chips and short tears along edges (longest tear being less than one-half-inch). Small hole near bottom of rear flap fold. Publisher's original $4.95 price intact on front flap. 315 pages.
Seller: Brazos Bend Books, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN. Farnham s Freehold.. New York: G. P. Putnam s Sons, 1964., 1964.
Price: US$422.72 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. 8vo. Publisher s black boards, spine and upper board lettered in gilt. In illustrated unclipped jacket [$4.95]. Yellow top edge. | A slight trifle wear to jacket spine ends and upper edge of back panel. Tiny closed tear to head of back fold cap. Binding tight and square, with clean interior. A fine copy in a near fine jacket. | PROVENANCE: Carlota Thorkildsen [1904-1980], the first wife of the German politician Willy Brandt [1913-1992]. Willy and Carlota divorced in 1948. Carlota founded a literary agency in Oslo, where she dealt with authorisations for translations and acted as an agent for manuscripts by foreign authors to Norwegian publishing houses. Her rubber stamp to upper corner of half title and title page.
Seller: Antikvariat Bryggen [ILAB, NABF], Skjeberg, Norway
Robert Heinlein. Farnham's Freehold. Putnam, New York, 1964.
Price: US$525.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Book almost fine, sharp corners and clean white pages and tight binding. Yellow topstain present. Colors bright, NO sunning to spine. Dust jacket has light edgewear. A very nice, solid copy of this book. Not price clipped, shows $4.95 on inside flap. Heinlein's grimmest book by far. Written near the heighth of the atomic war fear. Farnham builds a fallout shelter and when the alarms go off the family and a friend hide in the shelter, seal it, and feel a strange distortion and the solid concrete shelter slides DOWN. When they open the hatch, it's resting on a hillside thousands of years in the future. White people are all slaves or Aborigenes. Black people rule small underground kingdoms where hydroponics supply the only available food, they are intelligent, elegant, high tech, and cannibals. Farnham survives, finds romance, and even a sympathetic Ruler who sends him back in time with his mate rather then eat him.
Seller: Preferred Books, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.. Farnham's Freehold. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1964.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The binding is tight, top corners slightly bumped. Text unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, top corner of the front panel lightly rubbed, unclipped ($4.95), in a mylar cover. No statement of printing on the copyright page. 8vo. 315pp.
Seller: Chaparral Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.. Farnham's Freehold. G. P. Putnam's Sons (1964), New York, 1964.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition. 8vo, black cloth with gilt lettering on front panel and spine. Very good condition, slightly cocked, in very good not price clipped dust jacket, slightly rubbed along the edges. Top edge stained yellow.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.. Farnham's Freehold. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1964.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition. 8vo, black cloth with gilt lettering on front panel and spine. Very good condition, slightly cocked, in very good not price clipped dust jacket, slightly rubbed along the edges. Top edge stained yellow.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.. FARNHAM'S FREEHOLD. G.P. Putnam's Sons [1964], New York, 1964.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. A fine copy in a dust jacket just short of fine, touch of rubbing to heel of spine panel, head of spine panel lightly rubbed, small closed tear to upper front panel, touch of rubbing to front corners, tiny closed tear with slight rubbing to lower right front corner. (2748)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.. FARNHAM'S FREEHOLD. G.P. Putnam's Sons [1964], New York, 1964.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, iIllustrated by Irv Doktor, cloth. A fine copy in a just about fine price clipped dust jacket, some light rubs to spine folds, several small rub marks to front panel. An attractive copy. (9090)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.. FARNHAM'S FREEHOLD. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1964.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. The middle-aged American hero and family are thrown forward in time by a nuclear bomb, to find a world dominated by evil blacks. Reactionary, racist, sexist -- but readable." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition, p. 132. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 292. A fine copy in nearly fine first printing dust jacket (priced $4.95 on front flap) with light wear along top and bottom edges. A nice copy overall. (#141032)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.. FARNHAM'S FREEHOLD. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1964.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. ". another long and opinionated novel of ideas, invokes rather unpleasantly a Black despotism in the USA of the far future and begins to fully articulate a theme that obsessed the late RAH: the notion of the family as utterly central." - Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 555. A fine copy in nearly fine first printing dust jacket (priced $4.95 on front flap) with light rubbing to spine folds, touch of rubbing to front panel, and clipped price. (#92787)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.. FARNHAM'S FREEHOLD. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1964.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. A fine copy in nearly fine first printing dust jacket (priced $4.95 on front flap) with light wear at spine ends and mild dust soiling to rear panel. A very attractive copy of this title. (#115054)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.. FARNHAM'S FREEHOLD. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1964.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. ". another long and opinionated novel of ideas, invokes rather unpleasantly a Black despotism in the USA of the far future and begins to fully articulate a theme that obsessed the late RAH: the notion of the family as utterly central." - Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 555. A fine copy in a just about fine price-clipped dust jacket with some light rubs to spine folds and several small rub marks to front panel. An attractive copy. (#126033)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.. Farnham's Freehold. G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1964.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. This ORIGINAL First Issue dustjacket is rich in color with minor wear to the edges. The book is bound in the publisher's cloth and is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp with minor wear. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A wonderful copy in collector's condition.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.. Farnham's Freehold. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1964.
Price: US$5800.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. Signed by Robert A. Heinlein and inscribed to a former owner on the title page. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in gilt. Near Fine with hinge at front endsheet slightly exposed, pages lightly tanned, a rather bright and sharp copy. In a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with light wear.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.