With dust jacket.Ĭorners lightly rubbed, first couple of pages lightly creased from inserted paperclip, a near-fine copy in like dust jacket, not price-clipped, extremities lightly creased with a couple of tiny nicks, notably bright. Original red boards, spine lettered in yellow. The Door in to Summer proves why Robert Heinleins books have sold more than 50 million copies, winning countless awards, and earning him the title of Grand. Then Ginny said, 'Oh, he's looking for a door into summer.' I threw up my hands, told her not to say another word, and wrote the novel The Door into Summer in 13 days" (Bester, p. First edition, first printing, of Heinleins science fiction novel in which the protagonist, electronics engineer Dan Davis, is tricked into entering the. I kept opening other doors for him and he still wouldn't leave. He'd seen snow before and I couldn't understand it. Our cat - I'm a cat man - wanted to get out of the house so I opened a door for him but he wouldn't leave. In an interview with Alfred Bester, Heinlein described this as the novel he wrote "the fastest": "When we were living in Colorado there was snowfall. First edition, first printing, of Heinlein's science fiction novel in which the protagonist, electronics engineer Dan Davis, is tricked into entering "the Long Sleep", from which he awakes 30 years later.
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