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Price: US$825.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: G. P. Putnam's Sons. New York. 1966. 383 pages. NF/VG. DJ is a 1st printing. Book is a 7th printing. Original 1st printing DJ with $5.95 price intact on flap. DJ is bright and nice. No stamps or stickers to DJ. No fading to DJ spine. DJ was preserved for 45 years under a wrapper and under the wrapper was this beauty, without any label stickers or darkening/fading. Inside flaps show small tape ghosts or fragments of leftover scotch tape from which the DJ was once adhered to protector. Hardly a flaw as again, this is only on the inside flaps. The DJ does show general rubbing, a few edge creases and some smaller light blemishes to the rear of DJ that has white borders framing a photo of heinlein. This is a perfect candidate for someone looking to marry their first printing to this 1st issue DJ. The $5.95 priced DJ is scarce. As for the book that was married to this DJ, it is NF. Not much keeping this copy from grading nearly fine. very light, faint soiling (if any) to page edges. Tight and clean. 7th printing. Book appears unread. Pages lay tight. A tiny, faint spot of discoloration along edge of cloth panel. Endpapers are bright and clean. This is a very nice copy.
Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.
Robert Heinlein. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1966.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing of Heinlein's revolutionary classic, a high point of twentieth century science fiction and winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel. With a card signed by Heinlein laid in. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1966. Publisher's original orange cloth, lettered in gilt; pp. 383. A very good copy in a good or better, unclipped dust jacket. Binding remains sturdy with a lean to the spine, minor shelfwear to boards with a small white spot to rear board. Small bookshop sticker to flyleaf, else internally clean. The dust jacket remains vivid, with general shelfwear and chipping to extremities, including along the front flap joint, a couple closed tears and associated creasing to front panel, two tiny tape reinforcements to verso, protected in archival mylar.
Seller: Kevin Sell, The Rare Book Sleuth, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1966.
Price: US$2800.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original orange cloth boards. Near Fine with light soiling to textblock edge. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear, and a 2" tear to the rear panel at the foot of the spine joint, with an old tape repair made to the verso causing offsetting to the recto as well as to the cloth below. A nice copy of this Hugo Award winning book.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.. THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1966.
Price: US$3750.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. "This account of a revolution in a former lunar penal colony is essentially a retelling of the American War of Independence in SF terms. The hero narrates it all in a vigorous futuristic dialect. There is copious background detail and some interesting political and sociological speculation -- but, as with all the author's later books, the text is full of talk. Nevertheless, with its intelligent computer called Mycroft (after Sherlock Holmes's brother) and its by-now famous slogan "TANSTAAFL" (there ain't no such thing as a free lunch), it's entertaining enough. Heinlein's last decent novel." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 244. Winner of the 1967 Hugo award for best novel. 1966 Nebula nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-512. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1439-43. A fine copy in very good plus first printing dust jacket (priced $5.95 on the front flap) with light wear and shallow associated creases at lower spine end, mild rubbing to upper spine end and front corner tips, mild rubbing along lower front spine fold, 19 mm closed tear at lower edge near spine fold, and some mild soiling to rear panel. An attractive example of the jacket overall. (#133434)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1966.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. 383 pp. Bound in publisher's orange cloth boards stamped in gilt. Fine with bright, clean text in a very Near Fine dust jacket with trivial wear at head and tail, thin line of rubbing to front gutter and faint crease along bottom of front panel that is really only noticeable when seen from the verso; unfaded and very crisp, unclipped ($5.95) too. A beautiful copy of this Hugo Award winning novel, rare in such excellent condition.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.. THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1966.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. "This account of a revolution in a former lunar penal colony is essentially a retelling of the American War of Independence in SF terms. The hero narrates it all in a vigorous futuristic dialect. There is copious background detail and some interesting political and sociological speculation -- but, as with all the author's later books, the text is full of talk. Nevertheless, with its intelligent computer called Mycroft (after Sherlock Holmes's brother) and its by-now famous slogan "TANSTAAFL" (there ain't no such thing as a free lunch), it's entertaining enough. Heinlein's last decent novel." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 244. Winner of the 1967 Hugo award for best novel. 1966 Nebula nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-512. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1439-43. Some tanning to front free endpaper, a fine copy in fine first printing dust jacket (priced $5.95 on the front flap) with touch of rubbing at spine ends and along part of front flap fold, two tiny closed tears and associated crease at top edge of front panel, and 13 mm closed tear at lower edge of rear panel. An excellent copy, and elusive in such nice condition. (#155547)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1966.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing SIGNED by Robert Heinlein on a laid in signature. An attractive dustjacket that is vibrant in color with light wear to the spine and edges. This ORIGINAL First State dustjacket has the $5.95 printed price present on the front flap. The book is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A superb copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION SIGNED by the author. We buy SIGNED Heinlein First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1966.
Price: US$12500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing. Signed twice by Robert A. Heinlein, once on the title page and again with an inscription on the front free endpaper to polymath, researcher and science fiction writer Jerry Pournelle and his wife Roberta; from Pournelle's personal library. Bound in publisher's original orange cloth lettered in gilt. Very Good with lean to spine, oxidation to gilt lettering. In a Very Good unclipped ($5.95) dust jacket with light chipping, several tears at the edges and spine ends, a light diagonal crease to the front panel. A landmark work in science fiction about a lunar colony's revolt against absentee rule from Earth, also noted for its discussion of libertarian ideas. It was nominated for a Nebula Award in 1966 and won the 1967 Hugo Award for Best Novel. Signed copies of the first printing are scarce.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.