"BOSS, YOU'RE A DIRTY OLD MAN": FIRST EDITION OF HEINLEIN'S I WILL FEAR NO EVIL
HEINLEIN, Robert. I Will Fear No Evil. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, (1970). Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket.
First edition of Heinlein's entertaining examination of gender and sexuality through the lens of science fiction.
A development of social and sexual themes Heinlein first introduced in his classic Stranger in a Strange Land (1961), I Will Fear No Evil was, according to Charles N. Brown (publisher of Locus, science fiction's leading professional journal), "the only Heinlein book [Heinlein himself] ever talked about… His argument was that it wasn't a science fiction book; it was 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge' by Ambrose Bierce." First printing, with no edition statement on copyright page and $6.95 dust jacket price. Currey, 191.
Book fine, dust jacket with only light rubbing to extremities. A very nearly fine copy.