Heinlein, Robert. The Door Into Summer. Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1957.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Orange pebbled composite covers with black tiles to the spine. This copy is VG+ in a VG, unclipped ( Book Club Edition, so stated) , DJ. Jacket designed by Mel Hunter. Exterior is rich and clean with the slightest bit of rubbing to the black tiles. Inside is unmarked, clear, crisp, and tightly bound. Top page edges dyed yellow. Minimal /even toning to EPs and text. DJ still rich and clean with a few faded moisture spots to the upper spinemodest rubbing/chipping along spine/ spine top, and top edges. Inside of DJ is toned along the edges. Quite nice.

Seller: Bailey Bonzo Books, Shelbyville, IN, U.S.A.

Robert A. Heinlein. THE DOOR INTO SUMMER. Doubleday & Company, Inc, Garden City, 1957.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 188p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Top edges wearing through, and other edges lightly rubbed. Owner's signature inside front cover; otherwise clean and tight. The jacket is rubbed and has a few tiny tears, but is generally intact. Vintage book club edition of this Heinlein novel. Issued in the same format as the original publisher's edition.

Seller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd., ABAA, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.

Heinlein, Robert A[nson]. THE DOOR INTO SUMMER. Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, 1957.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, cloth. "A robotics engineer is cheated out of his patents. He time travels to the future, and then back into the past, in order to put things right and rendezvous with his true love (and his pussycat). A delightful story -- Heinlein at his cheeriest." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 104. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-198. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 23. Tape ghosts to free end papers, former owners bookplate affixed to front free end paper, black staining to edges of front free end paper, perhaps from an older jacket protector, some tiny black stains to cloth edges at spine ends and upper and lower right rear corners, still a very good copy in a good dust jacket with edge wear and rubbing, shallow chipping to upper left front panel, spine ends and corners, several closed tears and creases, spine faded. A filler copy. (28312)

Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.

Heinlein, Robert A.. THE DOOR INTO SUMMER. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, 1957.

Price: US$2500.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. "A robotics engineer is cheated out of his patents. He time travels to the future, and then back into the past, in order to put things right and rendezvous with his true love (and his pussycat). A delightful story -- Heinlein at his cheeriest." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 104. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-198. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 23. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with just a touch of rubbing at spine ends and three corner tips, faint horizontal crease at top edge of front panel, and hint of sunning to spine panel. A sharp copy. Among the most elusive Heinlein first editions, this book is rarely encountered in superior condition. (#155545)

Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.

Heinlein, Robert A.. The Door into Summer. Doubleday and Company, Garden City, New York, 1957.

Price: US$8000.00 + 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 original red cloth with spine stamped in yellow. Near Fine with faint edge wear and light tanning to pages, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light rubbing and light edge wear, spine faded.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.