Orphans of the Sky

Robert A. Heinlein. Stated (American) first edition, first printing. Possible BCE. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1964. Both price-clipped dust jacket, in a mylar protective wrapper, and hardcover are in Very Good+ condition. No writing or markings found in this well preserved copy, 187 pp. Jacket design by Irv Docktor. It is becoming increasingly difficult to find any of Heinlein's early books.

"This was the first serious treatment of the less-than-lightspeed multigenerational starship whose actual origin and destination have become lost in legend." (Barron; Antomy of Wonder 4, 3-88).

Part of Heinlein's "future history" series, first published as a two-part serial in ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION as "Universe" and "Common Sense."