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Robert A. Heinlein. The Door into Summer. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1957. First edition....
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Among the Most Elusive Heinlein First Editions
Robert A. Heinlein. The Door into Summer. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1957. First edition. Octavo. 188, [189-192: blank] pages. Publisher's red cloth, spine lettered in yellow, in original dust jacket. 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. There are tape remnants on the logo at the foot of the dust jacket spine panel. A sharp copy, rarely encountered in superior condition.More Information:
"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.
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2016 April 6 Rare Books Signature Auction - New York #6155 (go to Auction Home page)
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