The Puppet Masters de Heinlein, Robert A

Random House Publishing Group. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

The Puppet Masters by Robert A. Heinlein Signet P2863 Sixth printing

Publisher is Signet
Paperback
4.25 x 7 inches, 175 pages

The Puppet Masters is a 1951 science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, in which American secret agents battle parasitic invaders from outer space. It was originally serialized in Galaxy Science Fiction (September, October, November 1951).

The novel evokes a sense of paranoia and Heinlein repeatedly makes explicit the analogy between the mind-controlling parasites and the Communist Russians, echoing the prevailing Second Red Scare in the United States.

The book takes up the then common theme of sightings of Flying saucers, the plot assuming that the "saucers" seen in the 1950s were part of a preliminary reconnaissance of Earth, carried out by the extraterrestrials in preparation for a full-fledged invasion sixty years later.

Boucher and McComas characterized The Puppet Masters as "a thunderously exciting melodrama of intrigue", noting that Heinlein… Leer más

Western, 1968-01-01. Hardcover, Pictorial. Good. Little Golden Book 0 Hardcover, Pictorial - 208-43 - Worn. Inscription, book plate

New York: New American Library, 1966. First Edition Thus, Later Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine to Fine. Vintage paperback, Signet P2863; Hugo Award winner Heinlein's novel of alien invaders capable of thought control landing a flying saucer at Des Moines, Iowa; Sixth Printing of First Signet Edition; one-reader text is clean, tight, square, lightly age-tanned in pictorial wrappers with very light reading crease, slight discoloration to back cover along spine.

New York: Signet Books. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1951. First Edition; Eighth Printing. Paperback. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 173 pages; Minor soiling, edgewear, and reading creases to the covers and spine with light writing in pen to the front cover and a slightly rolled spine. #T3752 .

Sixth Printing

NY: Signet Books. VG. 1952. 1st Printing. Paperback. Signet Books #980, 1952. Stated first printing. Very Good condition. R ubbing along the spine edges and spine tips. The rear cover has a 2" d iagonal crease at its upper edge. It has a 3/4" split from the lower s pine tip. Mild tanning to the pages. A Solid copy with bright coivers. .

Signet / New American Library, 1976. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Copyright 1951, this edition published 1976 (Signet W 7399). Cover art by Gene Szafran. Wraps toned, soiled, edgeworn. Spine and front hinge creased; binding intact. Pages lightly toned, text unmarked.

Paperback. Very Good.

[New York]: Signet / New American Library [1952]. Fair. 1952. First Thus. Mass Market Paperback. First edition thus. Signet #980 with [25] cents cover price. "Alien monsters invade the world!". 175 pages. Reading/filler copy only [externally Good or better copy but internally the cheap text paper is fully tanned and the glue has dried so that the binding is cracked and some of the pages are detached]. .