DOUBLE STAR. by Heinlein, Robert A - (1956)

Garden City, NY:: Doubleday,, (1956). Near fine in a very good dust jacket (some tape reinforcement to fold of rear dj flap, other minor edgewear). An attractive vintage copy of a rather hard to find book. . Book club edition. Early printing of this classic early novel by Heinlein. "Lorenzo Smith, an actor out of a job, was willing to take on anything that came along . . . until Lorenzo found himself shanghaied on a spaceship bound for Mars that he discovered the extraordinary nature of his new job: to impersonate John J. Bonforte, leader of the Political Expansionist coalition, the most loved--and hated-- man in the solar system."The first of Heinlein's Hugo award winning novels. 190 pp. Dust jacket art by Mel Hunter.