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Podkayne of Mars
by Robert A. Heinlein
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
First edition hardcover with dust jacket, published by Putnam, 1962. The dust jacket is intact and is nor price clipped. First state dust jacket with original price of $3.50 printed on the top corner of the front flap and publisher code 0263 on the bottom of the front flap. The dust jacket has been protected with a clear, removable, Brodart brand cover. Only wear to report on the jacket is a minimal amount of edge wear to the head and heel of the spine, barely 1/32" of wear on those edges. Black cloth covered boards with the title and author name imprinted on the spine and front cover in green. All lettering is crisp and not worn or rubbed. The boards are flat and the corners are not rubbed or worn. Original owner name label on the front paste-down, about 1-1/2 inch long, 1/2 inch tall label with a typewritten name. There blue pencil point dots next to 12 of the 28 titles of the 'Titles by Robert Heinlein' page, opposite the Title page. No further writing besides those dots. The edges of the text pages are clean. The binding is tight and square. One tiny closed tear on the cover cloth at the head of the spine, barely 1/16" inch dot of a mark there. No further wear to the boards, no edge wear. This is not a library discard copy. 5-/2" X 8-1/2", 191 pages. Attached are photos of the copy we have in our inventory.
Synopsis
Podkayne of Mars is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialised in Worlds of If (November 1962, January, March 1963), and published in hardcover in 1963. The novel is about a teenage girl named Podkayne "Poddy" Fries and her younger, asocial genius brother, Clark, who leave their home on Mars to take a trip on a spaceliner to visit Earth, accompanied by their uncle.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hopkins Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20-458
- Title
- Podkayne of Mars
- Author
- Robert A. Heinlein
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Putnam
- Date Published
- 1962
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- science fiction, classic, young adult,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Hopkins Books
Biblio member since 2015
Nashua, New Hampshire
About Hopkins Books
We're a small, independent, family run book seller specializing in current fiction and non-fiction, with an emphasis on Art, Art History, History, Memoirs, Travel Memoirs, Signed First Editions, and Literature in Translation.Do you have any questions about our books ? Let us know, we'd love to hear from you! Do you want to see a photo of a book before you order it ? We try to post as many photos as possbiel, but sometimes there will be a item in inventory that does not show a photo here. So feel free to ask for photos, we don't mind at all. We package all of our orders carefully either in a box that has been designed to ship books, or in a padded envelope. We want to make sure you receive your order in the best possible condition!Our preferred shipping method is USPS Media Mail. Recently, the USPS has added tracking to Media Mail , which has been a great addition to this service.If you do choose to have your order shipped "Expedited", my shipping cost may seem higher than expected. Some of our books are large format hardcovers that can cost quite a bit when shipped expedited. So I would like to make sure that I can cover the cost upfront. However, if the actual cost of expedited shipping is less than the charge, I will refund the difference!
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
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