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Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: 21 x 14 cm. Octavo. 219pp. Grey boards in dust jacket. This is an early bookclub edition with the same dust jacket as the true first and 1951 the only date on the copyright page. Bookplate on front fixed endpaper. Some spotting to front free endpaper. All 4 jacket flap corners are lightly clipped. Small closed tear at front flap fold and a bit of edgewear to the jacket. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.. The Puppet Masters. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York, 1951.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This is a Good condition hard cover with no dust jacket. The cover is a bit frayed along the head and tail-side edges of the back-strip and the fore-edge corners are a bit bumped. The pages are tanned. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: The Armadillo's Pillow, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert. THE PUPPET MASTERS. Doubleday & Company, Inc, Garden City, New York, 1951.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition "Book Club Edition" THE PUPPET MASTERS. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951. A near fine First Edition thus copy in dust wrapper of the "Book Club Edition" with no price. Octavo, in the original tan cloth with purple stamping on the spine and purple edging on the pages. Binding is tight and no markings. The iconic dust jacket cover is bright and has minimal wear. The back of the Book Club Edition is different from the original First Edition but truly an affordable must for any Heinlein collectors. THE PUPPET MASTERS" is a science fiction classic set in a future where Earth is invaded by parasitic aliens that attach themselves to the backs of humans and control their actions, effectively turning them into mind-controlled puppets. Heinlein explores themes of invasion, individuality, and the struggle for control. Heinlein's writing style and storytelling are characteristic of his works from that era, focusing on both action and thought-provoking ideas. "The Puppet Masters" is considered one of the classic works of science fiction and has influenced subsequent writers in the genre.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition. Original tan cloth with titles in brown, interesting bookplate on front pastedown with owner's signature on the top of the front free endpaper. In nice original dust jacket with the original price intact on the front flap, with the only flaw being a small chip missing from top of jacket spine. An important Heinlein title in nice condition. All the Doubleday Science Fiction titles from this period are fragile and difficult to obtain in collectible condition.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.. The Puppet Masters. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, 1951.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 219 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Currey p. 233; Pringle, Science Fiction 4 Grey cloth. Fine copy in very good dust jacket (light rubbing at head and foot of spine panel, closed tears along top of front and back panels)
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.. THE PUPPET MASTERS. Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, 1951.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. Filmed in 1994 with Donald Sutherland. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-205. Pringle: Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels #4. A near fine copy, some light darkening to text block in a very good plus dust jacket which has the lavender background color to the front panel no longer present and on the spine panel the yellow color of the publisher and publishers symbol has faded somewhat, touch of edge rubbing, mild narrow stain to head of spine panel from old cello-tape (since removed). (10515)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.. THE PUPPET MASTERS. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, 1951.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. Parasitic slug "masters" from outer space "attach themselves to human hosts and control their every thought and action . Speaking through a host, a master offers mankind a life of contentment, peace, and security of surrender, and the offer appears genuine . [The novel] allegorizes modern anxiety about the preservation of freedom . Heinlein anticipates that moment when a man must make the fateful choice between security and freedom." - Berger, Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, p. 106. "Fast-moving tale of paranoid (anti-Communist?) fears run wild. Well handled, a classic of it type." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 291. Filmed in 1994 with Donald Sutherland. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-205. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 4. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1730-34. Very slight spine lean, a fine copy in near fine dust jacket with light wear at upper spine end and two corner tips and some dust soiling to rear panel. A nice copy with bright jacket. (#114597)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.. THE PUPPET MASTERS. Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, 1951.
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. Parasitic slug "masters" from outer space "attach themselves to human hosts and control their every thought and action . Speaking through a host, a master offers mankind a life of contentment, peace, and security of surrender, and the offer appears genuine . [The novel] allegorizes modern anxiety about the preservation of freedom . Heinlein anticipates that moment when a man must make the fateful choice between security and freedom." - Berger, Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, p. 106. "Fast-moving tale of paranoid (anti-Communist?) fears run wild. Well handled, a classic of its type." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 291. Filmed in 1994 with Donald Sutherland. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-205. Pringle: Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels #4. Previous owners bookplate affixed to front paste down, a fine copy in a fine dust jacket with touch of rubbing to corner tips and spine ends, a tiny 5 mm closed tear with crease to lower front panel. (28547)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.. The Puppet Masters. Doubleday & Company, Inc, Garden City, New York, 1951.
Price: US$8500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing. Signed by Robert A. Heinlein and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original tan cloth with spine lettered in brown. Worming and tanning to cloth, former owner name and address to front pastedown, old price erased above Heinlein's inscription on the front free endpaper, pages tanned with an occasional spot of soiling. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with fading to the spine, toning , light foxing and light wear.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.