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Heinlein, Robert A.
ASSIGNMENT IN ETERNITY {Lehr cvr}
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Signet
1965
2nd
Paperback
Paul Lehr
.50
near-Fine

When I started reading and collecting Heinlein, this is what they looked like, and even after I got them in hardcover - the early Signet paperbacks remain the standard of how I think a Heinlein book should look.

Signet (D2587) 2nd printing 1965 paperback (copyright 1953.) Cover by Paul Lehr? (no credits but it looks right for his early work), 192 pages, 50 cent cover price. Condition is near-Fine: tight and very square with flat spine, age tanning is mild and uniform; very light overall wear including a 1" finger-crease at left of front cover. No stamps, marks or writing - a very clean copy.

Assignment in Eternity (1953) - a collection of novelets by Robert A. Heinlein.

Gulf
Elsewhen
Lost Legacy
Jerry Was a Man

These originally appeared in Astounding, Super Science Stories, and Thrilling Wonder Stories from 1941-49. Once again, Heinlein demonstrates incredible range in the kinds of stories he can write.

Here's an extract from a book review from Astounding May 1954, to give some plot summaries:
"... I'd place them well ahead of Sixth Column, possibly ahead of The Puppet Masters, but not up to the best in the "Future History" series or the author's recent teen-age books. "Gulf" is a story even newer ASF readers may remember: a short novel of planetary intrigue in which an agent of the Federal Bureau of Security, trapped by a mysterious enemy, finds himself forced to depend on an even more mysterious ally with seemingly supernormal powers. The same theme appears in "Lost Legacy." Of the two shortest pieces, "Elsehen" is a mild episode in which a group of students travel mentally into other worlds, and "Jerry Was a Man" is the story of a humanized chimpanzee." [-P. Schuyler Miller]