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Double star / Robert Heinlein

by Robert A. Heinlein

This 1974 British mass market paperback edition of the 1956 Hugo Award-winning science fiction novel is one of only two printings to feature this particular cover art.

Accession 15569 ISBN 5860250223 Publisher Panther
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