The Sixties Catalogue

T h e S I X T I E S 30 “We Are Heading Up That Glory Road… Got Any Dragons You Need Killed?” 28. HEINLEIN, Robert. Glory Road. New York, 1963. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $2800. Click for more info First edition of Heinlein’s Glory Road, a classic work that “reveals the author at the top of his form” (Modern Fantasy: Hundred Best Novels), a splendid copy in the original dust jacket. Glory Road is “both a ‘classic’ and an anomaly in Heinlein’s canon… a superb parable, in which the higher workings that control man’s destiny are deftly exposed to view” (Slusser, 60). First printing , with no statement of editions or printings on copyright page. First-issue dust jacket , with $3.95 on front flap. Serialized in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (July-September 1963). Book fine; trace of edge-wear to colorful about-fine dust jacket. “I know a place where there is no smog and no parking problem and no population explosion… no Cold War and no H-bombs and no television commercials…”