![]() ![]() Nice condition, early copy of Robert Heinlein's first book - "ROCKET SHIP GALILEO" with its original dust jacket. Pages are slightly age toned due to paper used and clean throughout. Small light tidemarks to the head of front endpaper and pastedown. Rear hinge is slightly strained but firm. Patches of rubbing to the joints as well as to the head and tail of spine. Bumping to the extremities and to the head and tail of spine. In a full cloth binding with a facsimile dustwrapper. Heinlein was a popular science fiction writer. Lacking original dustwrapper, held in a facsimile dustwrapper. First edition of this work, with the 'A' to the edition page as well as Scribner's pictorial colophon to the tail of the page. This novel follows three teenagers who participate in a pioneering flight to the moon. This is his first ever publication, which was initially rejected by publishers as the idea of people travelling to the moon was too unrealistic. 'Rocket Ship Galileo' is one of Heinlein's 'juvenile' series novels. ![]()
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