Outstanding edition of Heinlein's life's work!
I first became acquainted with Robert A. Heinlein in 1956 with _Time for the Stars_. I had just turned 8, when my grandfather, who was a book buyer for A.C. McClurg, a publisher and then wholesaler, handed me the galley proofs. He said, "I want your opinion. I'm not a kid, and you are." From then through _Have Space Suit--Will Travel_, I got to read Heinlein's books from the galleys before they were published. Followed by an intensive Q-and-A with my grandfather, of course.<br /><br />Since then, I've sought out and read all book-published Heinlein in paperbacks. I've probably bought everything twice: some books I lent and never got back, some got lost in moves, and some I read and reread to destruction. If you translate old dollars to 2014 dollars, I've easily spent more on paperbacks than I did for this set. And I've never had a lot of the short fiction, the letters, the screenplays, and the non-fiction. And all in authoritative versions, capably edited by the late Bill Patterson. By the way, the total shipping weight was 140 pounds.<br /><br />What an utterly magnificent set this is! It is exactly as advertised, printed on excellent off-white book paper stock and stoutly bound with good, pebbly leather. Now I won't wear out paperbacks. And, no, you can't borrow any of my Virginia Edition volumes.
Rating: 5 stars