March 2021 Catalogue

27 I m a g i n e d W o r l d s E a r l y M a r c h 2 0 2 1 “The Slickest Way To Lie Is To Tell The Right Amount Of Truth—Then Shut Up” 25. HEINLEIN, Robert. Stranger in a Strange Land. New York, 1961. Octavo, original green cloth, dust jacket. $7200. Click for more info First edition of Heinlein’s most famous and influential novel. “An amazing, iconoclastic and complex satire of hypocrisy in sex and religion…A radical departure from conventional science fiction” (Patterson, 29, 48). “It reached large audiences farther away from his science fiction roots than anything else [Heinlein] wrote, and inspired insurgencies both right and left” ( Anatomy of Wonder II-518). The novel won Heinlein his third Hugo Award. Book extremely good, withmild toning and light soiling to cloth and tiny repair to head of spine. Bright dust jacket with only minor restoration and a bit of toning to spine. A most attractive copy. “Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith.”