{"id":21162,"date":"2022-08-01T18:18:59","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T23:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=21162"},"modified":"2026-09-23T20:56:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T01:56:31","slug":"library-additions-three-heinlein-firsts-one-signed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=21162","title":{"rendered":"Library Additions: Three Heinlein Firsts, One Signed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three Heinlein firsts bought from two different sources:<\/p>\n

  • Heinlein, Robert A. Beyond This Horizon<\/b>. Fantasy Press, 1948. First edition hardback, #413 of 500 signed, numbered subscriber copies (Currey State A), a Very Good copy with former owner George Price’s name and address on inside front cover and a quote from Hamlet<\/b> (“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, \/ Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”) written on the front free endpaper in the same hand, with bumping at head and heel and a few faint spots of foxing to first few pages, in a Good+ dust jacket with 1\/2″ chips to heel and bottom front cover, 1\/4″ tackhead-sized chip to spine (affecting bottom of “O” in “HORIZON”), plus a few lesser chips, creases, rubs and general wear. Inscribed by Heinlein: “For George W. Price\/All good wishes!\/Robert A. Heinlein.” George W. Price<\/a> ran Advent Publishers and participated in the 1959 Chicago Worldcon bid, and he seems to be still alive<\/a> at age 93. Heinlein’s second novel. Currey, page 232. Chalker\/Owings, page 158. Barron, Anatomy of Wonder 4<\/b>, 3-84. Bought for \u00a3350 from a notable UK book dealer.\n

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    This is the fourth signed Heinlein I’ve added to my collection. For others, see here<\/a> and here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

  • Heinlein, Robert A. Glory Road<\/b>. Putnam, 1963. First edition hardback (no statement of printing on copyright page, as per Currey), an Ex-Library copy with front free endpaper excised, discard stamps, abrasion wear along bottom boards, light paste-ghosts to inside covers, reinforcement to front and rear gutters, etc.; call it a Good+ Ex-Lib copy in a Very Good+ dust jacket with 1\/32″ strip of loss at very bottom of heel, slight wear and creasing at head and heel, trace of crease along front spine join, thin, closed 2″ tear\/crack along spine to middle of back cover, slight wear at points, and the barest trace of those paste ghosts to blind side; actually a very presentable copy of the dust jacket. Replaces another Ex-Library copy (non-first) in my collection. Currey, page 232. Bought for $16 from a collector culling his collection.\n

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  • Heinlein, Robert A. The Menace From Earth<\/b>. Gnome Press, 1959. First edition hardback, a Near Fine+ copy with slight bumping at head, heel and points (and far less than usual age darkening to the cheap later Gnome Press paper) in a Near Fine+ dust jacket with one 1\/8″ closed tear and associated triangular crease to bottom rear dust jacket, very slight age darkening to spine, trace of edgewear to rear flap, and a few traces of dust soiling to white over, otherwise an extremely nice example of the dust jacket. Short story collection, including the classic “By His Bootstraps.” Currey, page 233. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy<\/b>, page 109. Chalker\/Owings, page 205. Kemp, The Anthem Series<\/b>, page 278. Barron, Anatomy of Wonder 4<\/b>, 3-87. ISFDB notes no price on dust jacket (as is the case here). Bought for \u00a3250 from a notable UK book dealer.\n

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    Three Heinlein firsts bought from two different sources: Heinlein, Robert A. Beyond This Horizon. Fantasy Press, 1948. First edition hardback, #413 of 500 signed, numbered subscriber copies (Currey State A), a Very Good copy with former owner George Price’s name and address on inside front cover and a quote from Hamlet (“There are more things […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,137,5],"tags":[1973,1983,988,263,1970,1491,499],"class_list":["post-21162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fantasy","category-science-fiction","tag-books","tag-fantasy","tag-fantasy-press","tag-robert-a-heinlein","tag-science-fiction","tag-signatures","tag-small-press-publishers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21162"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21184,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21162\/revisions\/21184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}