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Heinlein, Robert A.. THE MAN WHO SOLD THE MOON. Shasta Publishers, Chicago, IL, 1950.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed by Heilein on the half-title page. Collects seven of Heinlein's stories making up the first book in Heinlein's Future History series. "A landmark book in the field." Chalker & Owings; The Scinece-Fantasy Publishers, page 398. Referenced in Baron, Anatomy of Wonder 1995, *3-89. Publisher's cancel correction stickers to printed time-line not present on the endpapers. Very good in very good dust jacket with a barely visible splash to the front cover.
Seller: Robert Gavora, Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Talent, OR, U.S.A.
Robert Heinlein. The Man Who Sold the Moon (inscribed first edition). Shasta Publishers, 1950.
Price: US$1300.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "The Man Who Sold the Moon" by Robert Heinlein. Shasta Publishers, Chicago. 1950 first US edition first printing. Black cloth backed beige boards, spine lettered in gilt, chronoligical chart on endpapers, color pictorial jacket. Inscribed and signed on half title page in ballpoint by Heinlein: "To Toni Sillman From BOb Heinlein, by Frank Scully P.A." Scully had Heinlein sign the book to Sillman. Frank Scully was a columniston the show business magazine Variety who in 1950 published his best-selling "Behind the Flying Saucers". A Centerpiece of the book plateau close to the small town of Aztec. A Collection of short stories that make up Heinlein's future history series. WIht the publisher's printed label future history 1951-2600 AD, on the bottom of the front and rear free endpapers, as issued. Light edge wear and rubbing overall, large splits to darkened jacket spine, scattered mild insct wear, book in very good condition.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Heinlein, Robert. THE MAN WHO SOLD THE MOON. Shasta Publishers, 1950.
Price: US$1363.75 + shipping
Description: THE MAN WHO SOLD THE MOON, Shasta, 1950, first edition, near fine in vg+ dust-wrapper with some light wear to the head of the dust-wrapper spine and some dust-soil to the rear dust-wrapper panel . The first book of the authors famed FUTURE HISTORY SERIES. Allegedly 1/500 copies SIGNED by the author. The title story won the retro HUGO award for best novella of 1951. (A seemingly similar copy sold at auction on 9/12/2011 to an over enthusiastic and very ill informed collector for $1,554.00!)
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.. THE MAN WHO SOLD THE MOON .. Shasta Publishers [1950], Chicago, 1950.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth backed boards. Inscribed and signed on the title page in Virginia Heinlein's hand. Inscribed and signed on the dedication page as Robert & Ginny in Heinlein's hand. (Note: the dedication of the book is to Ginny [Heinlein]. A collection of short stories which is the first volume in Heinlein's "future history" series. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-514. See Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1645-54. Foxing to top page edges, a very good copy in a bright, fine dust jacket. (28094)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.. THE MAN WHO SOLD THE MOON .. Shasta Publishers, Chicago, 1950.
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. One of an undetermined number of subscriber's copies with blank leaf signed by Heinlein inserted between the front free endpaper and half title leaf. Short stories forming part of Heinlein's "future history" series. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-514. See Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1645-54. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. A sharp copy. (#106931)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First printing of the first edition, review copy, with publisher material, laid-in, including: a photocopied typed letter to the prospective reviewer, a 5x4" black and white glossy photograph portrait of Heinlein on modern Kodak paper, and a short photocopied typed note from the publisher to Van [Allan Bradley], then reviewer for the Chicago Daily News (as identified with a hand-written post-it note). Black cloth-backed beige boards, spine lettered in gilt, chronological chart on endpapers, with the publisher's printed label "Future History, 1951-2600 A.D." on the bottom of the front and rear free endpapers, as issued [Currey p. 233; Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-89; Reginald 07048]. Signed by the publisher, Mel Korshak directly on the title page. The first book of Heinlein's Future History Series. Mild wear and aging, else book and dust jacket in fine condition.
Seller: Idler Fine Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of this classic work by the author of Stranger in a Strange Land. Octavo, original cloth, chronological chart on endpapers, with the publisher's printed label "Future History, 1951-2600 A.D." on the bottom of the front and rear free endpapers, as issued. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page and again signed in full on the title page, "From one Bob to another! R.A.H." Additionally inscribed by the publisher on the half-title page in the year of publication, "8/30/50 To Bob Cook- With the best wishes of the Publisher Melvin Korshak." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. (Currey p. 233; Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-89; Reginald 07048). An exceptional example, rare and desirable signed twice by Heinlein. A part of Heinlein's Future History and prequel to "Requiem", The Man Who Sold the Moon follows a series of events leading up to the fictional first Moon landing in 1978 and the schemes of Delos D. Harriman, a businessman who is determined to personally reach and control the Moon. Although the science fiction film Destination Moon is generally described as being based on Heinlein's novel Rocket Ship Galileo, the story in fact bears a much closer resemblance to The Man Who Sold the Moon. The novella also inspired David Bowie's song "The Man Who Sold the World", in both its title and its central themes.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Heinlein, Robert A.. The Man Who Sold The Moon. Shasta Publishers, Chicago, 1950.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing with the words "FIRST EDITION" printed on the copyright page. A beautiful copy authentically SIGNED by Robert A. Heinlein. 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 subscriber's copy signed by Heinlein on inserted blank leaf. We buy SIGNED Heinlein.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Price: US$7453.00 + shipping
Description: FUTURE HISTORY SERIES: THE MAN WHO SOLD THE MOON, THE GREEN HILLS OF EARTH & REVOLT IN 2100, Shasta Publishers, all in first edition, 1950, 1951 & 1953 respectively, all 3 volumes fine in like first issue color pictorial dust-wrapper with the first and third volume being the SIGNED /limited edition and the second volume (with some light age toning to the page edges) being INSCRIBED by the author on the half-title page. A very handsome set and a cornerstone work for those collecting this most esteemed and important genre writer.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.