ROCKET SHIP GALILEO
$3,500 · Offered by L. W. Currey
First edition
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947 . Octavo, cloth. First edition. 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 the most important, science fiction writer of postwar America. Heinlein began publishing SF in 1939 during the golden age of ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION. After World War
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