THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS
$7,500 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available
First edition
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1966 . Octavo, cloth. First edition. This account of a revolution in a former lunar penal colony is essentially a retelling of the American War of Independence in SF terms. The hero narrates it all in a vigorous futuristic dialect. There is copious background detail and some interesting political and sociological speculation -- but, as with all the author's later books, the text is full
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