(#136649) SPACE CADET. Robert A. Heinlein.

SPACE CADET. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Heinlein's second young adult SF novel. A "careful account of the the training procedure for a raw recruit to the Interplanetary Patrol, culminating in some adventures on the planet Venus. Clearly a fictionalization of the author's own experience as an Annapolis naval cadet in the 1920s." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 336. Former owner's youthful bookplate, dated 1948, affixed to front free endpaper, some fading to cloth along rear edge, a nearly fine copy in nearly fine first printing dust jacket (priced $2.50 on the front flap) with mild rubbing along flap folds and corner tips, light rubbing and tiny nick at upper spine end, and mild tanning to lettering on spine panel. An attractive copy. (#136649).

Price: $2,000.00

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First printing has "A" and Scribner seal on copyright page.