Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1956. First edition. First issue, in the first issue jacket with The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett on the rear panel (later changed to All the Traps of the Earth and Other Stories). A Fine, bright copy in Near Fine dust jacket. Octavo. Publisher's black textured boards, spine stamped in white. Touch of rubbing to binding extremities; one upper fore-corner lightly bumped, otherwise very fine. Unclipped jacket (priced "$2.95") with very slight wear to corner extremities.

Double Star follows Lorenzo Smythe, a struggling actor known as "The Great Lorenzo," who is enlisted to impersonate John Joseph Bonforte, the leader of a major political party in the solar system who has been abducted. The novel, “one of the scarcer Heinlein first editions” (Locke), was first serialized in Astounding Science Fiction earlier in the same year.

Provenance: From the collection of David Aronovitz. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. (Item #8030)