HEINLEIN, Robert A.

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The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To David [Aronovitz], this collection of short stories, Robert A. Heinlein". Aronovitz was a collector and book dealer specializing in science fiction.A collection of six early fantasy works, the book includes "All You Zombies", "They", and "And He Built a Crooked House". Alexei and Cory Panshin describe the titular fantasy-mystery as "the last and strangest of the stories that Robert Heinlein contributed to the Golden Age before he ceased to write during World War II" (Panshin, p. 394).

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