The Green Hills Earth Rhysling and the Adventure of the Entire Solar System! by Heinlein, Robert A. ; with An Appreciation by Mark Reinsberg; Hubert Rogers, Jacket Design - 1951

Chicago, Ill Usa: Shasta Publishers. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Marfree, collector's 1stEd perfect bound in emarald over black cloth w/ gilt titles sharply stamped on spine, one lower edge has hint of rubbing, unclipped trade color illus jacket is sunned w/ minor wear at tips & corners; textblock exterior sunned, 1 page turned, no names, not marked-in, underscored, clearance or discard. Tabular endpapers w/dates, stories, character, technical. Mails from NYC usually within 12 hours. ; 5.5 x 8.25 in.; 256 pages; \nGreen Hills of Earth is the 2nd volume in a series to The Man Who Sold the Moon. Contains: --Delilah and the Space-rigger. --Space jockey. --The long watch. --Gentlemen, be seated. --The black pits of Luna. --It's great to be back. --"-We Also Walk Dogs. " --Ordeal In Space. --The Green Hills of Earth. --Logic of Empire. \n"The Green Hills of Earth" is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein. One of his Future History stories, it originally appeared in The Saturday Evening Post (February 8, 1947) and was collected in The Green Hills of Earth (and subsequently The Past Through Tomorrow) . This is the poignant story of "Noisy" Rhysling, the blind space-going songwriter whose poetic skills rival Rudyard Kipling"s. Heinlein (himself a retired naval officer) spins a yarn about a radation-blinded spaceship engineer criscrossing the solar system writing and singing some of the best lyrics in science fiction. In a fine display of writing skill, the spaceship and crew feel as real to the reader as a contemporary tramp steamer. Henilein credited the title of the song to the short story "Shambleau" by C. L. Moore (first published in 1933) . In the story Moore"s character, a spacefaring smuggler named Northwest Smith hums the tune of "The Green Hills of Earth". The story was adapted for the Dimension X radio series (episode 10) . It also appeared on X Minus One and CBS Radio Workshop. The song "The Green Hills of Earth" which appears in the story was also used in the British radio series, Journey into Space. The television series Out There (1950s) had a version of the story. .