Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957. First edition. Tape ghosts to free end papers, former owners bookplate affixed to front free end paper, black staining to edges of front free end paper, perhaps from an older jacket protector, some tiny black stains to cloth edges at spine ends and upper and lower right rear corners, still a very good copy in a good dust jacket with edge wear and rubbing, shallow chipping to upper left front panel, spine ends and corners, several closed tears and creases, spine faded. A filler copy. (28312). Octavo, cloth. "A robotics engineer is cheated out of his patents. He time travels to the future, and then back into the past, in order to put things right and rendezvous with his true love (and his pussycat). A delightful story -- Heinlein at his cheeriest." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 104. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-198. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 23.

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Bookseller: John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 28312
Title: THE DOOR INTO SUMMER
Author: Heinlein, Robert A[nson]
Book Condition: Used - Tape ghosts to free end papers, former owners bookplate affixed to front free end paper, black staining to edges of front free e
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Place of Publication: Garden City
Date Published: 1957
Keywords: SF

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