For Sale 1st UK Edition

Price inside dustcover: $18.95 - VERY-NICE copy - NO remainder marks - No price clippings - If the subtitle, ``Being the Memoirs of a Somewhat Irregular Lady,'' evokes Fanny Hill, it's no accident. For although there's a science fiction story here, involving time travel, alternate history and super-longevity, the true subject of the book is sex. As the heroine, Maureen Johnson Long, says after one of many incestuous encounters: ``What the world needs is more loving, sweaty and friendly and unashamed.'' One way or another this idea is endlessly repeated, out of the mouths of any number of the absurd characters populating this novel. The heroine, born in 1882, engages in what Heinlein imagines to be clever, iconoclastic conversation with her father before the turn of the 20th century, and later with husbands, friends and offspring; they are all so smug and self-righteous it sets the teeth on edge. While spewing out homilies on the proper conduct of life, they are generally engaging in activities more appropriate to a tale involving the Jukes or the Kallikaks. Heinlein seems to be on a mission, but he has made his message unpalatable. And far from being admirable, his characters are virtually moronsthey are totally closed, the world can teach them nothing. Not surprising: they're all inbred

Near-new condition - Appears unread - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Tight spine - Bright pages - Stated First Edition (January, 1990) - Price inside dustcover: $19.95 - NO writing, marks or tears inside book - 283 pages - Illustrated throughout.

Stated First Edition. Price inside dustcover: $14.95. Dustcover shows slight tearing along top edge. Cover art by Richard M. Powers. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Two-tone boards are clean 368 pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book.

No writing - No tears - Tight spine - Very-nice copy of this sci-fi book! - 175 pages.

Like-new condition - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Tight spine - Bright pages - 177 pages

Near-new condition. Appears unread. Dustcover shows only slight wear (NO tear). Book is in Fine Condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Covr art by Matt Stawicki. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Tight spine - Bright pages. 589 pages.

1st UK edition. ~ Paperback, VG. 400pp, spined a little creased & bowed, otherwise a fine copy. ~ An indictment of Western civilization & all it stands for wrapped up in a fine science fiction tale.

Ace Books, 1988. 388 s. Pocket. Mycket bra skick. Engelsk text

New and unused!