The Man Who Sold the Moon: Harriman and the Escape from Earth to the Moon!

First edition of this classic work by the author of Stranger in a Strange Land. Octavo, original cloth, chronological chart on endpapers, with the publisher's printed label "Future History, 1951-2600 A.D." on the bottom of the front and rear free endpapers, as issued. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page and again signed in full on the title page, "From one Bob to another! R.A.H." Additionally inscribed by the publisher on the half-title page in the year of publication, "8/30/50 To Bob Cook- With the best wishes of the Publisher Melvin Korshak." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. (Currey p. 233; Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-89; Reginald 07048). An exceptional example, rare and desirable signed twice by Heinlein.