The Menace from Earth, Robert Heinlein
First edition, first printing of this collection of eight stories, of which the titular story concerns an underground human colony on the moon and a 15 year old girl who is designing the first interstellar spaceship. Housed in a custom case.
Hicksville, NY: The Gnome Press, 1959. Black cloth stamped in silver and yellow. Very good in a very good, unclipped dust jacket. Binding is tight, sturdy and square with minimal wear to boards, small spotting to top foredge. Endpapers foxed, scattered foxing internally, a few pages toned as is typical, else internally clean with no markings. Jacket shows light shelfwear and rubbing, toning to flaps, light toning to panels, protected in archival mylar. A very presentable copy, particularly with the case.