Hardcover. New York, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, Publishers, Revised Ed., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Very minor dust jacket edge wear. Small crease on front dust jacket cover. SIGNED BY FORMER ASTRONAUT ALLEN on half title page and dated 1988. Lots of color photographs throughout. A very clean and tight copy.
Paperback. Cinncinatti, American Book Co., 1st wraps, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 40 page booklet. Black & white illustrations. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to paper wrappers. A selection of three chapters on Edmund Halley and comets and meteors from "Todd's New Astronomy".
Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 307 pages, 60 color illustrations. 81 halftones. Provides an in-depth look at one artist's intense fascination with the science of astronomy. Joseph Cornell (1903-72) has often been viewed as a recluse, isolated in his home on Utopia Parkway, lost in the fairy tales and charming objects of his collages and assemblage boxes. Less commonly known has been Cornell's vested and serious interest in the history of astronomy and the cutting-edge discoveries made during his own lifetime. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Sherwood and Co., Later Edition, 1825, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 463 pages. Hardcover. Reprint edition dated 1825 - "A New and Improved Edition, Adapted to the Present State of Science by C. F. Partington". Illustrated with black & white drawings, diagrams. Body of book rebound in current covers at some point. Front hinge cracked, cloth tape along spine is weak, with faint remains of title label. Top 2" of title page missing. Light to moderate foxing to some plates/pages. Sold 'As-Is'.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 199 pages, b&w illustrations, blue cloth covers with white lettering on spine, bright dust jacket. Edited by Stephen Brush, C.W.F. Everitt and Elizabeth Garber.
Hardcover. Boston, Lothrop & Co., 1st, 1878, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrated boards with a black cloth spine, 247 pages, b&w illustrations. Introduction by Leonard Waldo of Harvard College Observatory. An introductory study of Astronomy for the young reader. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf otherwise clean. Corner chip to paper on bottom of front cover A fragile binding but still solid.
Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill, 2nd, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 298 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. ames Oberg (Red Star in Orbit, Mission to Mars, etc.) is a spaceflight engineer at Houston Mission Control; Alcestis Oberg is the author of Spacefarers of the 80s and 90s. Here they offer an engrossing and vivid account of what life is like in an earth-orbiting spacecraft. Because relatively few American space-travelers have published tales of their experiences, the Obergs lean heavily on the diaries and memoirspublished in Russia and little known hereof pioneering Soviet astronauts, notably veterans of long-term Salyut missions like Ryumin and Berezovoy. Here is the human side of life in orbit. Few readers can fail to be grippedand occasionally amusedby revelations of the immediate problems (how astronauts contend with toilets, hygiene, sleeping), their technical perils (e.g., air contamination) and the psychological hazards they face, from crewmate incompatibility to depression and homesickness for Earth. Photos.
Hardcover. New York, Plenum Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 293 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout.
Hardcover. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 314 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures.
Hardcover. New York, The Monacelli Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 127 pages, color plates. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Lynn Davis, known for surveys of natural and man-made wonders, has long been fascinated with the objects and venues of space exploration. Her photographs of the architectural icons, cornerstones, and abandoned sites of the space race reflect the many facets of a historically complex industry: the beginnings of space exploration; the changing nature of technology; and a fascination with otherworldly ruins. She emphasizes the bold modernism of these sites while evoking the presence of obsolete technologies. Davis traveled to historic sites in Kazakhstan, Russia, Germany, French Guiana, and the United States. She received special permission to visit Baikonur in Kazakhstan, a leading launch site shrouded in secrecy since the 1950s, and her photographs offer one of the first inside glimpses of launches, transmission towers, fuel lines, and satellites.
Hardcover. NY, G. E. Stechert & Co., 2nd Ed., 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine, 563 pages. The work is a collection of the origins of stars and constellations along with their meanings. The book also details various myths and folklore connected to the stars from a number of traditions including Greco-Roman, Arabic, Babylonian, Indian and Chinese. Includes indices in Arabic and Greek alongside the General Index. Originally published in 1899. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Light fading to blue cloth spine.
Hardcover. NY, Garden City Publishing, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards in a edgeworn dust jacket, unclipped (1.00). Notable for the illustrations by Ralston Crawford. Ralston Crawford (1906-1978) was an American abstract painter, lithographer, and photographer. Clean copy.
