Nov 13, 2018 - Sale 2493

Sale 2493 - Lot 138

Price Realized: $ 5,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
HEINLEIN, ROBERT A. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. 8vo, publisher's light reddish-brown cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt, mostly rubbed free from spine, lower corners soft; first printing dust jacket priced $5.95, tips of spine panel rubbed with creasing and small abrasions, folds rubbed, few small nicks to corners and spine panel tips; contents clean. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, (1966)

Additional Details

first edition, inscribed presentation copy ("to polly - with love, bob"), additionally signed by heinlein on the title. Rare inscribed copy of this Heinlein title, with only one copy traced at auction (Sotheby's NY, 11 October 1991, lot 170).