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Robert A. Heinlein. Waldo and Magic Inc.. Doubleday, New York, 1950.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Early Heinlein stories. Fair condition with cracked spine and bumping on top and bottom.
Seller: callabooks, Turner, ME, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert. Waldo and Magic. Doubleday, 1950.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first printing of the first edition. Near fine. DJ MISSING.
Seller: Nelson Freck, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
HEINLEIN, ROBERT A. Waldo and Magic, Inc. doubleday & co NY 1950, 1950.
Price: US$30.57 + shipping
Description: first edition 219pp in cloth covered boards VG+ (sl bumped spine head and foot, upper cnrs sl bruised, v sl browning to ep's) in VG- d/w (rubbing, wear and creasing to edges, cnrs rounded, flaps clipped at cnrs, spine sl chipped at extrem., silverfish damage to fore-edge of rear cover)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
HEINLEIN, ROBERT A.. WALDO AND MAGIC, INC.. doubleday, 1950, first edition ,,, 1950.
Price: US$53.00 + shipping
Description: very good, spine end chipping, some age darkening jacket only, NO BOOK
Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, webster, NY, U.S.A.
HEINLEIN, Robert A.. Waldo and Magic, Inc. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York, 1950.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Faint offsetting on front fly, spine and board edges lightly toned, about near fine, lacking the dust jacket.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Near fine in dust jacket with a chip missing from the bottom and the spine and some other rubbing, original price intact on the front flap.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.. Waldo and Magic, Inc. Doubleday & Company, Inc, Garden City, 1950.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near Fine in a Good jacket, unclipped ($2.50), rubbed and bumped at the edges, a chip near the front flap fold, some thin stains. Blue buckram, thin stains on the boards from old tape, with black ink lettering on the spine. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, clean internally. A collection of two of Heinlein's stories, a humor science fiction novelette and a rollicking fantasy.
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.
Heinlein , Robert A.. Waldo and Magic.. Doubleday & Co., New York, 1950.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition , first printing , NY , 1950. A near fine sharp book in the original binding. Clean with contents excellent. Slight age toning to the endpapers on front and rear. Still very sharp. In a very good dust jacket with creasing at the front top edge and chipping at the upper and lower spine. Not price clipped.
Seller: Somewhere In Time Books, St. James, NY, U.S.A.
Robert A. Heinlein. WALDO and MAGIC, INC.. Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Denim blue boards with black text on spine. Inside clean, no markings. Fascinating illustrated dust jacket, brown, blue and black. Shelf wear and chipped top spine and water mark inside top right corner. Pages tight, slightly browned, rough cut fore edges.
Seller: Secret Bookshop, Johannesburg, GAUTE, South Africa
Heinlein, Robert. Waldo and Magic, Inc.. Doubleday Science Fiction, Garden City, NY, 1950.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. This is a First Hardback edition, with both stories previously published in pulp magazine format. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is generally clean and bright, but has two small semi-closed tears to the top front panel, and some associated wrinkling. There is some light edgewear and rubbing to the spine ends and a tiny triangular chip to the top rear spine joint.
Seller: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.. Waldo and Magic, Inc. Doubleday, New York, 1950.
Price: US$283.25 + shipping
Description: Octavo. 219 pages. Originally published as two separate short stories. Here, Heinlein collects to present a fantasy of a major disaster that large power companies cannot solve but Waldo, a genius does with what appears to be magic. Bound in blue cloth, spine lettering black, avery good copy in good unclipped pictorial dust jacket rubbed along the edgeshead of spine chipped, some overally scattered foxing or roning to rear panel, small previous owner's stamp to front pastedown. [Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 942-44a ].
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.. WALDO AND MAGIC, INC .. doubleday, 1950.
Price: US$289.00 + shipping
Description: fine book almost near fine jacket chips at the spine ends,
Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, webster, NY, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert. WALDO & MAGIC, INC. ( JEDI / STAR WARS PHILOSOPHY ORIGIN BOOK ). Doubleday, 1950.
Price: US$348.00 + shipping
Description: AGRUABLY THE SOURCE BOOK FOR YODA AND THE ENTIRE JEDI / STAR WARS PHILOSOPHY / WALDO & MAGIC, INC., Doubleday, 1950, first edition, fine in vg+ dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear. Read WALDO in this Doubleday edition, page 76 line 31 through page 77 line 22 and then debate the justification for the above. Or----better yet; ask George when he read this !!!
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.. WALDO AND MAGIC, INC. Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, 1950.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. Collects two novellas, "Waldo" (Astounding, 1942) and "Magic, Inc." (Unknown, 1940). Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-171. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 792. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 942-44. Baird and Greenwood, An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 1151. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket with some overall light rubbing, mended closed tear to the lower rear spine fold with creasing along lower rear edge and several more closed tears. (31263)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert. Waldo and Magic, Inc.. Doubleday and Company, New York, 1950.
Price: US$360.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition Stated. A Clean, Unmarked Book, Tight And Clean, With Three Points Of Fraying At Top Of Spine And Two Points Of Fraying At Bottom Of Spine. Dust Jacket Not Price Clipped ($2.50), Unfaded, Light Edge Wear, Wear At Corners Removing Up To 1/8' Of Paper At Tips And At Corners Of Spine, But No Loss On Spine.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition. Original cloth, fine. In very good dust jacket. Signed by Robert Heinlein on a tipped in bookplate on the front free endpaper. Scarce signed.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
HEINLEIN, ROBERT A.. Waldo and Magic, Inc.. Doubleday, Garden City, 1950.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition. The two title novellas were published in Astounding Science Fiction in 1942 and in Unknown in 1940, respectively. Fine in near fine dustjacket with light creases to far edge of front flap and only minor rubbing at edges and folds.
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.. WALDO AND MAGIC, INC. Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, 1950.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. Collects two stories. Barron (ed): Fantasy Literature 3-171. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket, price clipped, with a touch of rubbing to corners and spine ends. (10767)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.. WALDO AND MAGIC, INC. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, 1950.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects two novellas, "Waldo" (ASTOUNDING, 1942) and "Magic, Inc." (UNKNOWN, 1940). "'Waldo' concerns a sick young engineer who is obliged to live in the weightless conditions of an orbiting satellite in order to compensate for his wasted muscles -- but from there he is able to solve several of Earth's problems. (Real-life remote-control manipulation devices have been named 'waldoes' after the hero of this story.) The other piece. 'Magic, Inc.,' is an enjoyable fantasy about a world where magic is taken for granted." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. [407]. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-171. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 792. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 942-44. Baird and Greenwood, An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 1151. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with touch of rubbing at spine ends, front corner tips, and along front spine fold. A nice copy. (#141063)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert. Waldo and Magic, Inc.. Doubleday & Company, Inc, New York, 1950.
Price: US$1095.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A fine crisp copy. scarse. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: HERB RIESSEN-RARE BOOKS, Costa Mesa, CA, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.. WALDO AND MAGIC, INC. Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, 1950.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. Signed by Heinlein on the front free endpaper. Collects two novellas, "Waldo" (Astounding, 1942) and "Magic, Inc." (Unknown, 1940). Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-171. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 792. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 942-44. Baird and Greenwood, An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 1151. Mild tanning to gutter edge of front endpapers, a fine copy in a fine dust jacket with faint stains to front flap. A lovely copy. This book is seldom found signed by Heinlein. (14041)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.. WALDO AND MAGIC, INC. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, 1950.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. A presentation copy with signed inscription by Heinlein to Mrs. Arthur G. [Dirce] Archer on the front free endpaper. Collects two novellas, "Waldo" (ASTOUNDING, 1942) and "Magic, Inc." (UNKNOWN, 1940). "'Waldo' concerns a sick young engineer who is obliged to live in the weightless conditions of an orbiting satellite in order to compensate for his wasted muscles -- but from there he is able to solve several of Earth's problems. (Real-life remote-control manipulation devices have been named 'waldoes' after the hero of this story.) The other piece. 'Magic, Inc.,' is an enjoyable fantasy about a world where magic is taken for granted." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. [407]. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-171. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 792. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 942-44. Baird and Greenwood, An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 1151. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with light wear at spine ends and corner tips. A very nice copy of a book seldom found signed by Heinlein. (#160712)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.. WALDO AND MAGIC, INC. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, 1950.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed on the front free endpaper by Heinlein. Collects two novellas, "Waldo" (ASTOUNDING, 1942) and "Magic, Inc." (UNKNOWN, 1940). "'Waldo' concerns a sick young engineer who is obliged to live in the weightless conditions of an orbiting satellite in order to compensate for his wasted muscles -- but from there he is able to solve several of Earth's problems. (Real-life remote-control manipulation devices have been named 'waldoes' after the hero of this story.) The other piece. 'Magic, Inc.,' is an enjoyable fantasy about a world where magic is taken for granted." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. [407]. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-171. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 792. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 942-44. Baird and Greenwood, An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 1151. Mild tanning to gutter edge of front endpapers, a fine copy in fine dust jacket with faint stains on front flap. A lovely copy of a book seldom found signed by Heinlein. (#153516)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert. WALDO & MAGIC, INC. / *** ASSOCIATION COPY ***. Doubleday, 1950.
Price: US$2952.25 + shipping
Description: *** ASSOCIATION COPY ***WALDO & MAGIC, INC., Doubleday, 1950, lst ed., near fine in vg/vg+ color pictorial dust-wrapper save for some soiling to the rear dust-wrapper panel. SIGNED by the author. Scarce thus. Formerly fellow science fiction writer Hal Clement's copy with his bookplate on the f.p.d. Nice association thus. Also, arguably the book that lead to the JEDI / STAR WARS PHILOSOPHY. Read WALDO in this Doubleday edition, page 76 line 31 through page 77 line 22 and then debate the justification for the above statement. Or----better yet; ask George when he read this !!!
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.