First edition of this early Heinlein work, aimed at a younger audience and setting up themes that would carry through into STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND.
Near fine in like jacket.
Price: $1,800.00
"An Earthling has no good way to estimate the age of a Martian, yet Jim had the unmistakable impression that this Martian was very old – older than his father, older even than Doc MacRae."
"With RED PLANET... [Robert A. Heinlein] came fully into his own as a writer for teenagers," notes THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION; the ENCYCLOPEDIA praises the work's well-constructed narrative and "carefully worked-out technical detail" (555). In many ways, RED PLANET is the direct ancestor of Heinlein's classic STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND. This title establishes tropes that would later be used in STRANGER, such as the importance of water and the ultimately deathless Martian people, as well as a general distaste for established institutions. A bright copy.
Read more: John Clute and Peter Nicholls, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949. 8'' x 5.5''. Original black cloth binding with red lettering. Original price-clipped red pictorial dust jacket. Fore-edge machine deckle. Red pictorial endpapers of a map of Mars and an informational note about the planet. Four large black-and-white illustrations. 212 pages. Jacket with mild edgewear, a bit of sunning to spine. Binding with tiny patches of uneven dye coverage to lower edge, likely production error; slight bumping to corners and spine ends. Leaves with scattered soil. Shows nicely.
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