Double Star
by Heinlein Robert A
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Vars, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Signet, # D2419. Good with no dust jacket. 1964. Mass Market. Mass Market Paperback in good condition, First Edition, Second Printing. Wear to the cover & spine hinge edges, along with the spine ends. The previous owner's name is written on the front free end paper, otherwise an unmarked interior. Squared and tightly bound. "One minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was -- as usual -- in a bar, drinking away his troubles as he watched his career go down the tubes. Then a space pilot bought him a drink, and the next thing Smythe knew, he was shanghaied to Mars." ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 128 pages .
Synopsis
Double Star is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, first serialized in Astounding Science Fiction (February, March, April 1956) and published in hardcover the same year. At the 1957 Worldcon it received the Hugo Award for Best Novel of the previous year.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bytown Bookery (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7254
- Title
- Double Star
- Author
- Heinlein Robert A
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Signet, # D2419
- Date Published
- 1964
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction; Science Fiction & Fantasy;
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