HEINLEIN, Robert A.

£5,750 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Double Star. First edition, with an original pencil sketch by the dust jacket illustrator on the half title, and inscribed him on the title page, "For Jerry Weist in 2003, Mel Hunter". Double Star was serialized in Astounding Science Fiction earlier the same year and won Heinlein his first Hugo Award. Hunter was a successful science fiction and technical illustrator, producing work for Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, the Pentagon, and Hayden Planetarium. Weist (1949-2011), the recipient of this copy, was an expert on comic book, science fiction, and pulp art. He wrote the Hugo Award-nominated Ray Bradbury: An Illustrated Life (2002) and The 100 Greatest Comic Books (2004). This copy has all the points of first issue, including the correct title "The Dragon in the Sea" on the jacket's rear flap (later changed to "The Door into Summer") and "The Long Tomorrow" on the rear panel (later changed to "all the traps of the earth and other stories").

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