Sought-after first edition book: Rocket Ship Galileo. First edition. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.25, 212 pages. Book condition: VG/VG, with a large ding to the top edge of the front board, and a few small nicks and edge tears to the dust jacket. The first in the Heinlein juveniles, a long and successful series of science fiction novels published by Scribner's, Rocket Ship Galileo was initially rejected by publishers who deemed the concept of going to the Moon as too far-fetched.
