Methuselah's Children - First Edition

Methuselah's Children by Robert Heinlein. First Edition. Very Good. Dust Jacket - Good Condition, Second State, Price Clipped. Gray Cloth Boards - Currey B Binding. This is a Very Good first edition of Methuselah's Children (1958) by Robert Heinlein. It is the Currey B Binding of the first edition with Gray Cloth Boards (which actually look like they are harder to come by online). The book itself is in very good condition, with slight browning to the pages (as is common with almost every first edition copy of this book) and a few almost unnoticeable stains. The dust jacket is second state (no New York address of the publisher on the back), and it has some relatively large tears or missing pieces on the front corners, back cover, and spine (see pictures).

First serialized in 1941, but later published in book form for the first time in 1958, Methuselah's Children is one of the more interesting novels written by Robert Heinlein. Known as the "Dean of Science Fiction," Heinlein was just at the beginning of his career when he wrote the serialized version of this mind-bending story that one reviewer called, "full of adventure, conflict, romance, and enough casually tossed-off ideas to serve as the basis for a half-dozen other stories."

As arguably the most important science fiction writer of his generation, Heinlein was essentially the first "hard science fiction" writer to simultaneously break into popular culture and receive recognition for his literary achievement.

This novel - written and published before his more popular works like Starship Troopers (1959), Stranger in a Strange Land (1961), and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966) - offers an opportunity to own an earlier Heinlein first edition.