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First edition, first printing, in the first issue dust jacket with the $5.95 price intact, this copy with two publisher's review slips loosely inserted. Heinlein's classic work of science fiction, in which a lunar colony in the 21st century revolts against the rule of Earth, won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1967. Octavo. Original pale orange cloth, spine lettered in gilt, author's initials to front cover in gilt. With dust jacket. Minor foxing to top edge; jacket bright, unclipped, extremities rubbed, bottom edge nicked: a fine copy in near-fine jacket.

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, published in 1966. The story is set in a futuristic penal colony on the Moon where the inhabitants, led by a sentient computer named Mike, revolt against the government on Earth to establish their own independent lunar society.