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Science and Medicine : Astronomy and Space Travel


Space - The Ultimate Challenge - An Astronaut's Odyssey

Orbis / St Michael, London
Heavy Square 4to in colour printed stiff glossy card covers, 240pp, illustrated in colour throughout, index etc
A well preserved almost AS NEW copy (few specks of slight shelf rub to cover edges, minute crease to bottom corner tip of front cover, page-block edges very faintly tanned)
1st editionSoftcover
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Life Magazine International March 12, 1960 - John Glenn in Orbit issue

Time Life International
Large size magazine, 72pp complete
Pages slightly tanned, light rub to spine fold with a little minor splitting along top margin and small chip to bottom edge of spine else VERY GOOD+, a well preserved, sound, clean and tight copy
1st editionSoftcover
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The Mapping of the Heavens

British Library, London
Hardback 1st Edition Large square 4to. 134pp, colour plates, bibliography, indexes
ALMOST as new (minor and faint bumps to bottom edge of front cover) in an AS NEW Dust Jacket
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Proceedings of the First International Workshop on the Identification of Dark Matter (Sheffield 8 - 11 September 1996)

World Scientific, Singapore
Thick, heavy 8vo. in black faux leather, gilt lettering to spine, 618pp, diagrams, tables etc in text
An almost AS NEW unread or barely read copy (mild bump to top edge of front cover, page-block edges faintly dusty) in an almost AS NEW Dust Jacket (barely visible short closed tear to bottom corner tip of front flap fold, looks new in its protector)
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Exploring the Galaxies

Faber & Faber, London
8vo in black cloth, silver lettering to spine. 206pp, plates, bibliography, index etc
An almost AS NEW unread copy (tiny spot of soil to top edge of page block) in an AS NEW publisher-price-clipped Dust Jacket (with publishers new price sticker to inner flap)
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Man on the Moon

Constable, London
Large 8vo in blue faux cloth, silver lettering to spine. 256pp, plates, bibliography, index etc
A FINE barely-read copy (tiny spot of soil to front end-papers) in a near FINE Dust Jacket (spine panel ends a little rubbed, looks very presentable in its protector)
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Wings of Fire - An Autobiography

Universities Press (India), Hyderabad
Large 8vo in stiff card covers, 180pp, plates in colour and b/w. Autobiography of the Indian missile and rocket scientist
Name on fly-leaf. Tiny speck of rub to cover corner tips else FINE+, as new un- or barely-read copy
Softcover
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Travel to Distant Worlds

Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow
Large 8vo in cream cloth covers. 264pp, plates, illustrations in text
Spine and covers irregularly sunned and slightly soiled, cover corner tips slightly pushed else VERY GOOD, an otherwise well preserved clean and tight copy
1st editionHardcover
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The Neptune File - Planet Detectives and the Discovery of Worlds Unseen

Allen Lane, London
8vo, 215pp, index etc
FINE a very clean and tight copy not far from new (Remainder mark to bottom edge of page block) in a lightly edge-rubbed near FINE Dust Jacket (looks fine in its protector)
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Atlas of the Sky

Macmillan, London
Heavy Folio in black cloth with white lettering, 157pp, star maps, charts, plates etc
Faint rub to cover corner tips else FINE, a well preserved, very clean and tight copy in a defective GOOD only dust jacket (looks presentable in its protector)
1st editionHardcoverDustjacket
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The Heavens on Fire - The Great Leonid Meteor Storms

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Large 8vo 349pp, plates, bibliography, index etc. Publishers review request loosely inserted
AS NEW in an AS NEW Dust Jacket
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The Return of Halley's Comet

Norton, New York
Small 4to. 121pp, plates, index etc
NEW unread copy (pages faintly tanned) in an AS NEW Dust Jacket
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The Last Three Minutes - Conjectures About the Ultimate Fate of the Universe

Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London
Large 8vo Paperback. 162pp, bibliography, index
NEW unread copy
1st editionSoftcover
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Annual Report of the British Interplanetary Society 1952

British Interplanetary Society, London
8vo in printed stiff card covers. Paginated 301 to 364 (as issued). Long 'Chairman's Address' by Clarke plus reports, papers and book reviews by other hands, 5pp plates etc
Faint sunning to covers else FINE, a very clean and tight copy
1st editionSoftcover
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List of Members of the British Interplanetary Society 1953

British Interplanetary Society, London
8vo in card covers. Pages numbered 309 to 392. A to Z of members names and addresses (includes Arthur C Clarke as member no. 2), with membership statistics at rear
Covers faintly sunned, slight bump to bottom front corner else FINE, a very clean and tight copy
1st editionSoftcover
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Looking for Earths - The Race to Find New Solar Systems

Wiley, New York
Hardback 240pp, plates, bibliography, index, plates, bibliography, index. 1st Edition
NEW unread copy in NEW Dust Jacket
1st editionHardcoverDustjacket
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£11.95
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