HEINLEIN, Robert A. Time for the Stars. NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons [1956]. 12mo, [x] 244pp. Blue cloth pictorially stamped in black. Pictorial endpapers; double-page illustrated title. Spine ends a tad rubbed, corners less so, some evidence of adhesive removal near hinge of fixed endpapers and at bottom of rear cover, else a clean, tight copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (light rubbing to spine ends, some wear at top of front panel near flap fold, price-clipped).

 

First edition. A juvenile science fiction novel from the author of Stranger in a Strange Land, about two twins who communicate telepathically while one of them flies light years away in a rocket ship attempting to find habitable planets to colonize and the time effects of Einstein’s theory of relativity come into play.