An exceptionally attractive booklet for both its contents and its elegance. It's a soft cover measuring 7-1/2"x10" with 74 pages printed on quality coated paper and generously illustrated with both black and white and color photographs. There's also a color fold-out depicting the lay of the land which comes tucked into a pocket on the reverse side of the back cover. Very interesting and very beautiful. Only fault is two small flat creases at back cover. by spine. View More...
Nice copy of a slightly hard to find title. Very clean inside and out with no spine crease, names or writing. Illustrated throughout with charts, photos, and graphs. Also includes tables for 3,317 asteroids. The author's goal was to make the subject more understandable to the amateur astronomer and to cover topics not discussed in Tom Gehrel's 1979 landmark book, Asteroids. Despite title, book is not overly simplistic. 208 pages. Indexed. [ SCIENCE ] View More...
Crisp, clean book with no names or writing, no remainder mark, no price clip and no tears or chips. Dustjacket will arrive in brand new mylar cover. Book is bound in paper over boards with a cloth spine. The author, a physicist, takes the reader on a journey through the universe via cosmology and M-theory. 428 pages including glossary and index. View More...
Beautiful magazines carefully kept by a collector. Small tear to upper back corner of one and a small spot to one cover. No labels. Billed as "the world's most beautiful astronomy magazine." Illustrated with both color and black and white photos. A sampling of articles includes: why planets have rings; the polar regions of mars, robot probes, slow boat to Centauri, HEAOs, the X-ray universe; gamma rays and the origin of cosmic radiation, the end of time, astronomers in space, duststorms of Mars, Uranus and Neptune, Viking on Mars, and life on Mars. Other early full runs available. View More...
Crisp, clean book with no names or writng, no bumps to boards, and no tears or chips to dustjacket which will arrive in a brand new mylar cover. This biography covers many aspects of the subject -- his romances, his Boston clubs, his travel to the Orient in order to try life as an adventure author, and his astronomy with itsfeuds with the professional astronomical establishment. Text is quite compelling. 333 pages including index. View More...
