ROCKET SHIP GALILEO
$10,000 · Offered by L. W. Currey
First edition · Signed
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947 . Octavo, cloth. First edition. Early signed inscription by Heinlein on front free endpaper: For Dirce Archer / Sincerely / Robert A. Heinlein. Additionally signed in full by Heinlein on the title page. The author's first book, preceded by a pamphlet printing a convention speech. The importance of this book cannot be overstated. It is the first published novel by a major, perhaps
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