Robert Heinlein. First edition. Dust Jacket: Very Good. An unclipped jacket with original price $5.95 on the inside flap. Designed by the great Paul Bacon Studio. The jacket has some wear and chipping on spine and edges. Hardcover: Very Good. NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1970. The spine is a bit skewed but book is solid and intact. No writing or markings in the book, 401 pp.
"The story of one of the worlds richest and most powerful men, Johann Sebastian Bach Smith, who is on the verge of death and whose only hope is in finding a new body in which to live, and upon surviving the radical surgical procedures involved, finds himself faced with enormous ethical and philosophical dilemmas. In a dark, polluted America of the 21st century the fabulously rich 94-year old hero has his brain transplanted into the body of his beautiful young secretary. Something goes awry (both with the experiment and with the novel, for the girl’s personality remains alive in the body, and interminable dialogue ensue.”
