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Author:	Robert A. Heinlein
Title:	Assignment In Eternity
Publisher:	Signet
Country:	USA
Date:	Nov 1954
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
Cat#:	1161
Total Editions:	5
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Notes

Anthology of four stories:
- Gulf (1949)
- Elsewhen (1941)
- Lost Legacy (1941)
- Jerry Was A Man (1947)
© 1953 by Robert A. Heinlein
Signet Books edition published by arrangement with Fantasy Press, 1954
- 1st printing, Nov 1954
192 pp.
cover artist: (not credited)
cover price 25c

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ppint. 11th Jun 2023		brown, watson digit books imprint p/b undated° second printing half the original eponymous reprint collection; contains one novelette and one novella cover art by richard powers (signed powers, retained from first printing) cover price 2/6 160pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. ° - date presumably taken from donald h. tuck's encyclopedia (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 11th Jun 2023		some bibliographical references give this as a science fiction book club edition, which it was not; museum press and some other publishers gave their ''category fiction'' lists such ''club'' series names. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 11th Jun 2023		museum press h/cvr first printing, first uk edition reprint collection of two novelettes and two novellas cover (d-j) art by john richards (signed richards) cover (d-j) price 9/6d 224pp.(check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end p., bound with endpapers between covered boards (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 14th Jan 2018		brown, watson digit books imprint p/b undated° first printing, first thus aka "assignment in eternity volume one", q.v. half the original eponymous reprint collection, containing one novelette and one novella cover art by richard powers re-used from that for pyramid books mmpb of "4 for the future" edited by geoff conklin (8/1959), q.v. cover price 2/- 160pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. ° - date presumably taken from donald h. tuck's encyclopedia the balance of the first and other full editions' contents ukp/b-ed in "lost legacy" (1961), q.v. (aka "assignment in eternity volume two" new english library uk p/b, q.v.) (and to further confuse matters, new english library also released - and reprinted - an eponymous uk p/b edition containing three of the four stories - and another containing all four. . . plus a reissue of the three story-contents p/b edition after that, ... plus a bind-up of the carcasses of unsold copies of one of their two-volume editions (iyswim). . .) (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Other Editions

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Robert A. Heinlein - Assignment In Eternity - Digit - Paperback - UK (1960)

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Robert A. Heinlein - Assignment In Eternity - Digit - Paperback - UK (1962)

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Robert A. Heinlein - Assignment In Eternity - Signet - Paperback - USA (1973)

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Robert A. Heinlein - Assignment In Eternity - Museum Press - Hardcover - UK (1954)