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Uncle Arthur's Storytime, Vol. 2 (Children's True Adventures)
Arthur S. Maxwell; Cheryl W. Holloway; Robert Grace; Bob Grist; Mark Stutzman; Christy Mull
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Condition: good. The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental material…s.
Uncle Arthur's Storytime, Vol. 2 (Children's True Adventures)
Arthur S. Maxwell; Cheryl W. Holloway; Robert Grace; Bob Grist; Mark Stutzman; Christy Mull
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Uncle Arthur's Storytime, Vol. 2 (Children's True Adventures)
Arthur S. Maxwell; Cheryl W. Holloway; Robert Grace; Bob Grist; Mark Stutzman; Christy Mull
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Uncle Arthur's Storytime, Vol. 2 (Children's True Adventures)
Arthur S. Maxwell; Cheryl W. Holloway; Robert Grace; Bob Grist; Mark Stutzman; Christy Mull
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Uncle Arthur's Storytime, Vol. 2 (Children's True Adventures)
Arthur S. Maxwell; Cheryl W. Holloway; Robert Grace; Bob Grist; Mark Stutzman; Christy Mull
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Uncle Arthur's Storytime, Vol. 2 (Children's True Adventures)
Arthur S. Maxwell; Cheryl W. Holloway; Robert Grace; Bob Grist; Mark Stutzman; Christy Mull
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Uncle Arthur's Storytime, Vol. 2 (Children's True Adventures)
Arthur S. Maxwell; Cheryl W. Holloway; Robert Grace; Bob Grist; Mark Stutzman; Christy Mull
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Condition: very_good. Gently read. May have name of previous ownership, or ex-library edition. Binding tight; spine straight and smooth, with no creasing; covers clean and crisp. Minimal signs of handling or shelving. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Sh…ips USPS Media Mail.
Uncle Arthur's Storytime, Vol. 2 (Children's True Adventures)
Arthur S. Maxwell,Cheryl W. Holloway,Robert Grace,Bob Grist,Mark Stutzman,Christy Mull
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Seller: HPB-Movies, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.HPB-Movies
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paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.
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Hard Cover. Condition: vg-. Dust Jacket Condition: vg. 1st ptg. 355pp + excerpt from Lisey's Story; text clean, previous owner name stamp on front ep; light shelf wear to edges of color il'd dj. Mark Stutzman, dj (illustrator). Hardcover (dj).
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Hard Cover. Condition: vg-. Dust Jacket Condition: vg-. 1st ptg. 306 pages; text unmarked, book store stamp on free front ep; light shelf wear to edges of color illustrated dj. Mark Stutzman, dj (illustrator). Hardcover (dj).
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Hard Cover. Condition: vg-. Dust Jacket Condition: vg. Book Club Ed. 459 pages; text unmarked, previous owner name stamp on front ep; light shelf wear to edges of color il'd dj. Mark Stutzman, dj (illustrator). Hardcover (dj).
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Hard Cover. Condition: vg-. Dust Jacket Condition: vg. Book Club ed. 513 pages; text clean, previous owner name stamp on front ep; red dj with die-cut shovel on front. Mark Stutzman, cover (illustrator). Hardcover (dj).
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Hard Cover. Condition: vg-. Dust Jacket Condition: vg. 1st ptg. 356 pages; text unmarked, previous owner name stamp on front ep; light shelf wear to edges of color illustrated dj. Mark Stutzman, dj (illustrator). Hardcover (dj).
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Seller: THE OLD LIBRARY SHOP, Bethlehem, PA, U.S.A.THE OLD LIBRARY SHOP
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Hard Cover. Condition: vg-. Dust Jacket Condition: vg. Book Club ed. 611 pages; text unmarked, previous owner name stamp on front ep; color illustrated dj. Mark Stutzman, dj (illustrator). Hardcover (dj).
Language: English
Published by Saturday Review Press/E. P. Dutton, New York, New York, U.S.A., 2002
- Hardcover
Seller: Pat Cramer, Bookseller, Lewisville, TX, U.S.A.Pat Cramer, Bookseller
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Condition: Used - Near fine
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). A square solid tight clean very carefully read copy if at all. This copy has a an edge bump/wear to bottom edge of the front board. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND NORMALLY SHIPS NEXT DAY. This copy includes a new audiobook still in original pu…blisher's shrinkwrap of this title unabridged in cassette format. Mark Stutzman (illustrator). Ephemera.
Language: English
Published by Scribner, New York, London, Toronto, ON, Canada, et al., 2004
- Hardcover
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.gearbooks
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Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. 383 pp. Clean, fresh copy and dj with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. Mark Stutzman (Jacket Illustration); Howard Gotfryd (Author Photo); Erich Hobbing (Design) (illustrator).
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Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.Heartwood Books and Art
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. From a Buick 8 by Stephen King (First Edition) A sharp tight copy. Bright dust jacket. Not price-clipped. Mark Stutzman(Jacket Art) (illustrator). First Edition with number line 1-10. BOOK.
- Hardcover
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.gearbooks
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Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Simon & Schuster Hardcover Ed. 2008. 280 pp. Clean, fresh copy with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. Dj shows minimal wear. Tom Schierlitz/Getty Images, Mark Stutzman (Jacket Art);; Julie Brothers (Author Photo); Suet Y. Chong (Book Design) (…illustrator).
Language: English
Published by Scribner - Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 2006
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: WF Sandercombe, Burlington, ON, CanadaWF Sandercombe
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Quarter-bound in black on red boards; lettered in silver on the spine; headband. Dj art by Mark Stutzman. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. Size: 8vo. Mark Stutzman; (illustrator). Book.
Language: English
Published by Scribner - Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 2002
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: WF Sandercombe, Burlington, ON, CanadaWF Sandercombe
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. Quarter-bound in blue on white boards; lettered in silver on the spine; headband. Dj art by Mark Stutzman. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. Size: 8vo. Mark Stutzman; (illustrator). Book.
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- First Edition
Seller: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, U.S.A.S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA)
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Cover Art; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. Illustrated by Mark Stutzman (illustrator).
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- First Edition
Seller: Ziesings, Shingletown, CA, U.S.A.Ziesings
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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux:, 2013. First American edition, Hardcover, New in dust jacket, 403 pp. Cover artwork by: Mark Stutzman "As editor of the Guardian, one of the world's foremost newspapers, Alan Rusbridger abides by the relentless twenty-four-hour news cycle. But increasingly in midlife, he feels the gravitation…al pull of music - especially the piano. He sets himself a formidable challenge: to fluently learn Chopin's magnificent Ballade No. 1 in G minor, arguably one of the most difficult Romantic compositions in the repertory. With pyrotechnic passages that require feats of memory, dexterity, and power, the piece is one that causes alarm even in battle-hardened concert pianists. He gives himself a year. Under ideal circumstances, this would have been a daunting task. But the particular year Rusbridger chooses turns out to be one of frenetic intensity. As he writes in his introduction, 'Perhaps if I'd known then what else would soon be happening in my day job, I might have had second thoughts. For it would transpire that, at the same time, I would be steering the Guardian through one of the most dramatic years in its history.' It was a year that began with WikiLeaks' massive dump of state secrets and ended with the Guardian's revelations about widespread phone hacking at News of the World. 'In between, there were the Japanese tsunami, the Arab Spring, the English riots . . . and the death of Osama Bin Laden,' writes Rusbridger. The test would be to 'nibble out' twenty minutes per day to do something totally unrelated to the above." First American edition, Hardcover, New in dust jacket. Mark Stutzman (illustrator).
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Published by Henry Holt, New York, 2018
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- First Edition
Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.Vero Beach Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. As new condition gold boards with maroon spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard; Author Dedication; Prologue; Postscript; Sources; Il…lustration Credits; index and About the Authors. Illustrated with black and white photographs and maps. "In the latest installment of the mega-bestselling Killing series, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard confront Nazi evil in a riveting account of the courageous efforts to capture fugitive members of the SS after World War II. As the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals who committed genocide went on the run. A few were swiftly caught, including the notorious SS leader, Heinrich Himmler. Others, however, evaded capture through shadowy but sophisticated Nazi orgainizations designed to hide them. Among those war criminals were Josef Mengele, the "Angel of Death," who performed hideous medical experiments at Auschwitz; Martin Bormann, Hitler's brutal personal secretary; Klaus Barbie, the cruel "Butcher of Lyon:; and perhaps the most awful Nazi of all: Adolf Eichmann. Killing the SS is the epic saga of the espionage and daring waged by self-styled "Nazi hunters." This determined and disparate group included a French husband and wife team, an American lawyer who served in the army on D-day, a German prosecutor who had signed an oath to the Nazi Party, Israeli Mossad agents, and a death camp survivor. Over decades, these men and women scoured the world, tracking down the SS fugitives and bringing them to justice, which often meant death. Written in the fast-paced style of the Killing series, Killing the SS will educate and stun the reader. The final chapter is truly shocking." - from the inner front jacket flap. Pracher, Rick (jacket design); Stutzman, Mark (jacket illustration); Levavi, Meryl Sussman (book design) (illustrator).
Published by New York, 2005
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Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.Heartwood Books and Art
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. First printing (full number line) 2004. The second Cold Case Squad mystery novel. A special homicide unit of the Miami Police Department. Mark Stutzman (illustrator).
Published by Scribners, New York, 2004
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Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, U.S.A.MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). The author's long-lost novel written in 1939. An excellent copy. Mark Stutzman (illustrator).
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Published by Scribner, an Imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 2002
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Seller: Mattabesset Books, Kensington, CT, U.S.A.Mattabesset Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Scribner, an Imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 2002. First (1st) Printing (full number line down to 1) of the First Edition. Fine in an As New Dust Jacket. Possibly Unread. The Text Block is clean, white, tight, straight and squa…re with no markings of any kind. The Binding is blue-gray quarter cloth to gray boards, colors uniform throughout but for fading at top edge, with bright silver title, etc., to the spine, unmarked white endpapers, and all corners square and sharp. The pictorial Dust Jacket (illustration by Mark Stutzman) is flawless - colors bright and uniform throughout, and fully intact with the original prices (US $28.00 Canada $42.50) intact on the front flap. 459 pages. 6 1/2" x 9 5/8". A horror collection of eleven short stories and three novellas, each of which had been previously published in magazines or audiobooks. This book was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award, 2003 and the British Fantasy Award, 2003; and was Runner-up (5th place) for the Locus Award for Best Collection, 2003. NOTE: This book weighs 808 grams / 28.5 ounces, and may, when packaged, require extra postage for international shipment. ISBN 10: 0743235150 / ISBN 13: 9780743235150. Mark Stutzman, jacket illustration (illustrator).
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Seller: Biblio Baggins, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.Biblio Baggins
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A Fine first printing in a Very Fine Jacket with a few light bumps to the heel of the book alone, This Scribner 2002 copy bears a full number line and is priced at $28.00. The jacket is now encased in archival Brodart. All our books ship bundled in multiple la…yers of bubble wrap inside a sturdy box. Mark Stutzman (illustrator).
Paul Bowles : A Life. [Paul Bowles, a Runaway to Paris; A Lovesick Bowles in Algeria; writing Music Reviews, Music for Broadway, Fiction, & Translations; Bowles's Departure for Morocco & Return to New York to Compose Music for A Streetcar Named De
Carr, Virginia Spencer. [subject: Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999 ; Ahmed Yacoubi, Erich Hobbing, John Fullbrook III, Jerry Cooke, Mark Stutzman]
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Seller: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.Joseph Valles - Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. [1st edition], 1st printing ; xv, 409 pp. ; illustrated ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 0684196573; 9780684196572; LCCN: 2004-54748 ; OCLC: 55665486 ; LC: PS3552.O874; Dewey: 813/.54 ; beige and black cloth with godl lettering, in color photographic dustjacket ; re…mainder mark at bottom ; "Paul Bowles -- novelist, composer, expatriate, rebel and bisexual--is one of the most compelling and mythological figures in twentieth-century American culture.He studied music with Aaron Copland and was a friend of Ger trude Stein, W H Auden, Carson McCullers, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, Ned Rorem, Allen Ginsberg, William Buroughs, Stephen Spender and Christopher Isherwood." ; VG/VG. Book.
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Published by Scribner, New York, 2006
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Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.Vero Beach Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. As new condition red boards, black spine, and silver spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quotes by Sigmund Freud, Konrad Lorenz, and Verizon; Acknowledgme…nts; About the Author; and Rear Section "excerpt, in the author's hand, from the forthcoming novel Lisey's Story, which Scribner will publish on October 24, 2006". Remainder mark at lower page edge. "There's a reason cell rhymes wth hell. On October 1, God is in His heaven, the stock market stands at 10,140, most of the planes are on time, and Clayton Riddell, an artist from Maine, is almost bouncing up Boylston Street in Boston. He's just landed a comic book deal that might finally enable him to support his family by making art instead of teaching it. He's already picked up a small (but expensive!) gift for his long suffering wife, and he knows just what he'll get for his boy Johnny. Why not a little treat for himself? Clay's feeling good about the future. That changes in a hurry. The cause of the devastation is a phenomenon that will come to be known as The Pulse, and the delivery method is a cell phone. Everyone's cell phone. Clay and the few desperate survivors who join him suddenly find themselves in the pitch-black night of civilization's darkest age, surrounded by chaos, carnage, and a human horde that has been reduced to its basest nature.and then begins to evolve. There's really no escaping this nightmare. But for Clay, an arrow points home to Maine, and as he and his fellow refugees make their harrowing journey north they begin to see crude signs confirming their direction: KASHWAK=NO-FO. A promise, perhaps. Or a threat. There are one hundred and ninety-three million cell phones in the United States alone. Who doesn't have one? Stephen King's utterly gripping, gory, and fascinating novel doesn't just ask the question "Can you hear me now?" It answers it with a vengeance." - from the inner front jacket flap. Fulbrook, III, John (jacket design); Stutzman, Mark (jacket illustration; Guip, Amy (author photograph) (illustrator).
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Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.Ground Zero Books, Ltd.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. xvii, [3], 263, [5] pages. Blue dot on fep. Introduction by Spider Robinson. Afterword by Robert James, Ph.D. This is Heinlein's long-lost first novel, written in 1939 and never before published, introducing ideas and themes that would shape his career and define… the genre that is synonymous with his name. After crashing his car in 1939, Naval Airman Perry Nelson awakens to find the radically different world of 2086, one marked by a United Europe, the destruction of Manhattan island by two helicopters in 2003, and other changes in the economy, legal system, and the relationships between men and women. Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 - May 8, 1988) was an American science fiction author, aeronautical engineer, and naval officer. Sometimes called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was among the first to emphasize scientific accuracy in his fiction, and was thus a pioneer of the subgenre of hard science fiction. His published works, both fiction and non-fiction, express admiration for competence and emphasize the value of critical thinking. His plots often posed provocative situations which challenged conventional social mores. His work continues to have an influence on the science-fiction genre, and on modern culture more generally. For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. It was published for the first time in 2003. Heinlein admirer and science fiction author Spider Robinson titled his introductory essay "RAH DNA", as he believes this first, unpublished novel formed the DNA of Heinlein's later works. The novel's manuscript was lost until biographer Robert James traced down references to it. His research led to its rediscovery in a box left in a garage. Heinlein had apparently sent it to an earlier biographer, Leon Stover. Perry Nelson, a normal 1939 engineer and Navy pilot, is driving his automobile when he has a blowout, skids over a cliff, and wakes up in the year 2086. Though he was apparently killed in the summer, he re-appears in extremely cold snow, nearly dies again by freezing, and is saved by a fur-clad woman named Diana. The exact circumstances of his being killed and reborn after a century and a half are never explained. The later 21st century people seem strangely incurious, showing little interest in how he had come to be among them and rather take his appearance for granted and proceed to explain to him the details of the social and political set-up of their world. The book is akin more to a lecture series than a novel. A number of people have remarked on its resemblance to H. G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come where the sleeper wakes into pseudo-utopia. The character Diana's background is clarified in a multiple-page footnote from the author. The future society has a version of a Social Credit structure with a central government-run bank exclusively controlling the monetary supply to prevent overproduction and remaining private banks prohibited from lending money they do not actually have on hand and which had been explicitly designated for investment risk. The book does not tell precisely how the protagonist came to wake up a century and a half after being killed in a car accident, and find himself wandering in the snow in the body of a denizen of the future who had had enough of life and chose to commit suicide. It is mentioned that his last sight before crashing down and getting killed was a girl in a green bathing suit who had the same face as the Diana which he meets in the future; it turns out that her name had been Diana, too, and that to her fell the disagreeable task of finding Perry's broken body and reporting the accident. There is the clear implication that the later Diana was an avatar or reincarnation of the earlier one, but this is not stated explicitly. As noted by reviewer Nancy Green, this aspect of the book gives the impression of a draft which Heinlein intended to further work on, but never did. May be Science Ficti. Mark Stutzman (Jacket illustration) (illustrator).
