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Heinlein, Robert A.,. Time for the Stars. Charles Scribner's Sons/New York,, 1956.

Price: US$9.95 + shipping

Description: hard cover, ex library, Scribners Library Binding, clean, tight, bright, cloth pictorial boards, 244 pages, 5 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches, good + book condition, no dust jacket, fiction,

Seller: Alf Books, Menomonie, WI, U.S.A.

Heinlein, Robert A.. Time For the Stars. Charles Scribner's Sons, NY, 1956.

Price: US$10.00 + shipping

Description: Good with soiled, bumped and chipped edges. Rolled spine

Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.

Robert A. Heinlein. Time for the Stars. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1956.

Price: US$14.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Book Club ed. Minor shelf wear to jacket. General shelf/age wear. Pages/boards/jacket clean, binding sturdy.

Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.

HEINLEIN, ROBERT A.. TIME FOR THE STARS. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, NY, 1956.

Price: US$14.50 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: book-of-the-month-club edtion, nice,unmarked copy!

Seller: Gian Luigi Fine Books, albany, NY, U.S.A.

Heinlein, Robert A.. Time for the Stars , Illustrated By Clifford Geary. Charles Scribner's Sons, NYC, 1956.

Price: US$19.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: This is a VG, unmarked, hardcover Book Club edition in a mylar protected DJ, that has tape closed nips, brown spine.

Seller: Reader's Corner, Inc., Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.

Heinlein, Robert A.. Time for the Stars. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1956.

Price: US$19.95 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Tan textured paper covered boards, lettered and illus. in dark blue. Top corners slightly bumped, spine extremities a bit rubbed. Firm binding, clean interior. Illus. dust jacket (lettered/illus. in yellow and blue on brown field) rubbed along edges with a few small chips, modest loss at heel of spine, clipped front flap, now in mylar. Book club edition. 192 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.

Robert Heinlein. Time for the Stars. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1956.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Looks as new except for slight toning to parts of dust jacket. Book looks unread. Hudson River edition.

Seller: Preferred Books, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, U.S.A.

Heinlein, Robert A.. Time for the Stars. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1956.

Price: US$30.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Very Good in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped, lightly toned and rubbed, some foxing at the flap folds. Beige boards, bumped at the corners. Square and firmly bound, toned at the endpapers, foxed at the top edge, clean otherwise. Heinlein's young adult novel about Tom and Pat, an adventurous and inventive set of twins who set out to solve Earth's population problem.

Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.

Heinlein, Robert A.. Time for the Stars. Charles Scribner's and Sons, New York, 1956.

Price: US$34.99 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: This X-Lib First Edition Has On The Copyright A-8.56 [V]. The Library Code Has Been Removed From The Spine Leaving The Usaual Discoloration. Worn Through At The Spine Ends And Corners. Page Edges Tanned. The Book Is Blue With A Star Ship On The Front In Black And Black Lettering On The Spine. The End Papers Are Of A Star Background.

Seller: Granada Bookstore, IOBA, Woodlawn, IL, U.S.A.

Robert A. Heinlein. Time for the Stars. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1956.

Price: US$45.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Spaceships travel to the stars in search of habitable planets to colonize. The crew includes half of a pair of twin boys, while the other remains on earth in order to communicate telepathically with his twin and the ship. Near fine, tight copy with bumping on top and bottom of spine, and staining on spine. No DJ.

Seller: callabooks, Turner, ME, U.S.A.

Heinlein, Robert A.. Time for the Stars. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1956.

Price: US$48.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: 192p., stains on fore edge., Top and bottom of spine bumped.

Seller: Yushodo Co., Ltd., Fuefuki-shi, Yamanashi Pref., Japan

Heinlein, Robert A.. Time for the Stars. Charles Scribner's and Sons, New York, New York, U. S. A., 1956.

Price: US$49.99 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: This X-Lib Edition Has On The Copyright F-10.67[V]. The Book Has The Usual Library Stamps. Stated Library Binding. A Price Of $3.31 On The Flap. The Book Is Bound In Brown Cloth With Yellow Lettering On The Front And Spine. The Jacket Has Been Protected By Clear Plastic.

Seller: Granada Bookstore, IOBA, Woodlawn, IL, U.S.A.

Heinlein, Robert A.. TIME FOR THE STARS. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1956.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Later printing, with D-6.63[V] on the copyright page. A Good copy in Good dust jacket. 12mo., 244 pp. Bound in illustrated cloth in similarly illustrated dust jacket. The dust jacket is edge worn with Scribner's label on the lower spine of the dj, reading "Scribner's Library Binding". Some of the pages of the text have their lower edges shallowly torn (I suspect they were used to make 'spit-balls') The dj is now protected in a mylar sleeve.

Seller: Frey Fine Books, Rougemont, NC, U.S.A.

Heinlein, Robert A.. Time for the Stars. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1956.

Price: US$60.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: "Rocket ships are completely outdated in this story, so we travel to the distant stars in a torchship." Ships same or next business day. Ex-library book with all the usual markings, cardholder partially removed on back free endpaper, glue residue on front free endpaper. Spine is skewed and loose. Book has edge and shelf wear. Small bumps on corners. Spine ends are torn. Tape and discoloration on head and tail edges of boards. Spine is cracked in multiple places at front and back of book, tape is helping to hold the binding together throughout. Rough tears on head and tail edges of boards. Soiling, age spotting, and tanning to edges of pages. Dust jacket protected in archival cover. DJ has normal edge and shelf wear. Small creases and tears on corners, spine ends, and edges of flaps. Damp stains on fore-edges of pages. Small holes on fore-edges and on middle of spine. Darkened on spine. Small label on spine tail. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 244 pages

Seller: Good Books In The Woods, Spring, TX, U.S.A.

Robert Heinlein. Time for the Stars (First Edition). Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1956.

Price: US$65.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition, first printing with publishers code A-8.56 [V] present. No dust jacket. Book has tight binding, blue cloth boards has discoloration to front and spine. A solid, tight copy. Clean white pages with pictorial endpapers.

Seller: Preferred Books, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, U.S.A.

Robert A. Heinlein. TIME FOR THE STARS. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1956.

Price: US$95.57 + shipping

Description: Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Few small open tears. Light stain on front panel.

Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.

HEINLEIN, Robert A.: GEARY, Clifford N. (illustrations).. TIME FOR THE STARS.. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1956. First edition., 1956.

Price: US$201.57 + shipping

Description: 8vo, 192pp. A good hardback copy in lightly edgeworn dust jacket. Covers foxed and lightly bumped at corners. First printing, first issue, August 1956.

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

Robert A. Heinlein. Time for the Stars. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1956.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: 20.5 x 14.5 cm. Octavo. 244 pages. Blue cloth in price clipped dust jacket. First edition with Scribner's "A-8.56[v]" on copyright page. Light chipping to the edges of the dust jacket spine and corners. Light sun fading to dust jacket. Small chip out of the bottom of the front of the jacket. Light rubbing to the edges of the cloth. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.

Robert A. Heinlein. Time For The Stars. Scribners, 1956.

Price: US$275.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: "Time for the stars", by Robert A. Heinlein. Charles Scribner's Sons, NY. 1956, first US edition first printing (known by the publishers code A-8-56 [V] on the copyright page.). A hardback in very good condition. 244 pages, clean, tight and bright. There is no writing/underlining/highlighting on any text pages. On the first title page there pencil writing of "£15". 8.25 x 5.75 inches. The DJ on this book is in very good condition and has not been price clipped. The front has chips on the outer corners, slight chips on the left and right edges and some faint rubbing marks on the surface. The back has chips on the outer corners, faint rub marks on the surface and some slight creases on the top and bottom edges. The spine has chips on the top and bottom edges and has been slight sun bleached. The Boards are in very good condition. Front has bumps on the outer corners. Back has a bump on the bottom left corner and a slight bend on the top left corner. The spine is very good with slight bumps on the top and bottom edges. Pages are cut and the edges are very good. The top edge is slightly dust discoloured.Time for the Stars is a juvenile science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, published by Scribner's in 1956 as one of the Heinlein juveniles. The basic plot line is derived from a 1911 thought experiment in special relativity, commonly called the twin paradox, proposed by French physicist Paul Langevin.

Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands

Heinlein, Robert A.. Time for the Stars. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1956.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Book in Mylar wrap. Publishers code A-8.56 [V] present. Dustjacket price though is $2.95. no chipping noted on dustjacket. age wear noted on book cover - some fading. slight slant. Dirt spot on pages edges on the side.

Seller: All-Ways Fiction, Carson City, NV, U.S.A.

Robert Heinlein. A Time For The Stars. Charles Scribner, New York, 1956.

Price: US$395.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: a fine copy in the original black and blue pictorial cloth in the brown and gold pictorial dust jacket with the original price of 2.75. closed tiny tear else a very good dj under brodart mylar. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, 1956. . 1st Edition. All required points for a first edition, first impression book including the A-8.56 {v} code and 1956 date on the copyright page. The book is in near fine crisp, clean condition with blue cloth boards The binding is tight and square. The starry patterned end papers are clean in addition, note this title is not mentioned with the ads for his previous books making this book and its issue the 1st Edition. The Scribners A means 1st Edition and the 8 refers to a month of the year in 1956. as well. a pretty copy of a great Heinlein. A sci fi master.

Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.

Heinlein, Robert A.. Time for the Stars. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1956.

Price: US$403.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: VG/VG dj; now in archival Brodart. Stated First Edition with correct publisher's code: A-8.56[v]. Blue cloth boards w/ black titles, light rubbing to edges and tips, boards show some light fading at top edge and along top spine as typical with this title. Light rubbing to edges and tips of unclipped jacket w/ original $2.75 price covered by small sticker - which can be seen in strong light, small chips and tears at spine ends.

Seller: Dark Hollow Books®, Member NHABA, IOBA, Wolfeboro Falls, NH, U.S.A.

Heinlein, Robert A.. Time for the Stars (1st edition). Charles Scribner's Sons, 1956.

Price: US$525.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Charles Scribner's Sons. New York. 1956. 244 pages. First edition, 1st printing. A-8.56[v] code on copyright page. DJ has $2.75 price intact on DJ flap. Blue cloth covers shows fading as typical with this title. Attractive, clean endpapers. Pages are tight. binding and hinges are strong. DJ shows rubbing along front, extremities and a couple of tiny chips. A nice copy of the classic.

Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.

Heinlein, Robert A.. Time for the Stars. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1956.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Near Fine with light lean to binding, light wear to extremities, several spots of soiling to textblock edge, pages tanned. In a Near Fine unclipped ($2.75) dust jacket with light fading to the spine, light rubbing, light wear at extremities and a short tear to the bottom end of the front flap fold. A very nice copy.

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

Heinlein, Robert A.. TIME FOR THE STARS. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1956.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-520. A fine copy in very good first printing dust jacket (priced $2.75 on the front flap) with fraying and shallow loss at spine ends, rubbed corner tips, and several small rub marks to rear spine fold. Overall, an attractive example of the jacket. (#140591)

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

Heinlein, Robert A.. TIME FOR THE STARS. Charles Scribner's Sons [1956], New York, 1956.

Price: US$1000.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, Illustrated by Clifford Geary, cloth. "Although written and marketed as a young adult novel, this book is a mature treatment of the relativistic time-dilation effect in interstellar travel."- Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-92. A fine copy in nearly fine first printing dust jacket (priced $2.75 on front flap) with light rubbing at spine ends and corner tips, several faint wrinkles at upper spine end, and some internal tanning with a bit of show through to yellow lettering on spine panel. Overall, an attractive example of the jacket. (11678)

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

Heinlein, Robert A.. TIME FOR THE STARS. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1956.

Price: US$1000.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-520. A fine copy in nearly fine first printing dust jacket (priced $2.75 on the front flap) with light rubbing at spine ends and corner tips, several faint wrinkles at upper spine end, and some internal tanning with a bit of show through to yellow lettering on spine panel. Overall, an attractive example of the jacket. (#113345)

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

HEINLEIN, Robert.. Time for the Stars.. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1956, 1956.

Price: US$1624.43 + shipping

Description: First edition, first printing, in the first issue dust jacket with the $2.75 price intact. Heinlein's novel is based on the "twin paradox" thought experiment proposed by physicist Paul Langevin: it tells the story of twin brothers, one of whom travels in space in a high-speed "torchship", returning to Earth to discover his brother has aged more than he has. This copy comes from the library of Carlota Frahm (1904-1980), with her ownership stamps to the half-title and title page. Born Carlota Thorkildsen, in 1941 Frahm married Willy Brandt (1913-1992), who later served as Chancellor of West Germany (1969-74); the pair divorced in 1948, after which Frahm founded a literary agency in Oslo, largely representing the work of foreign authors to Norwegian publishing houses. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in black, front cover decorated in black, illustrated endpapers. With dust jacket. Spine slightly faded and bumped at head and foot, a very good copy indeed in like dust jacket, slightly worn along top edge, rubbed at extremities, otherwise bright and fresh.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom

Heinlein, Robert A.. TIME FOR THE STARS. Charles Scribner's Sons [1956], NY, 1956.

Price: US$1750.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, cloth. "Although written and marketed as a young adult novel, this book is a mature treatment of the relativistic time-dilation effect in interstellar travel." Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-520. A fine copy in a fine just jacket. A lovely copy. (17072)

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

Heinlein, Robert A.. TIME FOR THE STARS. Charles Scribner's Sons [1956], NY, 1956.

Price: US$1750.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, illustrated by Clifford Geary, cloth. "Although written and marketed as a young adult novel, this book is a mature treatment of the relativistic time-dilation effect in interstellar travel." Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-92. A fine copy in a fine just jacket, tiny rub spot to spine panel corner. A superior copy. (12942)

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

Heinlein, Robert A.. TIME FOR THE STARS. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1956.

Price: US$1750.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. "Although written and marketed as a young adult novel, this book is a mature treatment of the relativistic time-dilation effect in interstellar travel." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-520. A fine copy in fine just jacket. A lovely copy. (#155356)

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

Heinlein, Robert A.. TIME FOR THE STARS. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1956.

Price: US$1750.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. "Although written and marketed as a young adult novel, this book is a mature treatment of the relativistic time-dilation effect in interstellar travel." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-520. A fine copy in fine first printing dust jacket (priced $2.75 on the front flap) with tiny rub spot to upper corner of spine panel at front fold. A very attractive, superior copy. (#129695)

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

Heinlein, Robert A.. Time for the Stars. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1956.

Price: US$2000.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Edition, First Printing with the publisher's "A" printed on the copyright page. An attractive First Issue dustjacket that has the publisher's $2.75 printed price present on the front flap. The book is in excellent condition and is bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's blue cloth. The binding is tight with minor wear to the edges. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy in collector's condition.

Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.

Heinlein, Robert A.. Time for the Stars. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1956.

Price: US$3000.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Edition, First Printing SIGNED by Robert A. Heinlein on a laid in signature. A beautiful copy. This ORIGINAL dustjacket is vibrant in color with slight wear to the edges. The book is in fantastic shape and appears UNREAD. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A superb copy signed by the author. We buy SIGNED Heinlein First Editions.

Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.

Heinlein, Robert A.. A Time for the Stars. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1956.

Price: US$3500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Edition, First Printing SIGNED by Robert Heinlein on the preliminary leaf. This First Issue dustjacket has the publisher's printed price present on the front flap with light wear to the spine. The book is bound in the publisher's ORIGINAL blue cloth with minor wear to the edges. The pages are clean with NO marks or bookplates in the book. A beautiful copy SIGNED by the author.

Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.