The Sixties Catalogue

29 J u l y 2 0 2 0 “The Slickest Way To Lie Is To Tell The Right Amount Of Truth—Then Shut Up” 27. 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, his third Hugo Award-winner.. “An amazing, iconoclastic and complex satire of hypocrisy in sex and religion… A radical departure from conventional science fiction” (Patterson, 29, 48). First issue , in green cloth with code C22 in the gutter of page 408 (Currey, 193). Book extremely good, with mild 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 aMartian named Valentine Michael Smith…”