Results for: Astronomy & Space
Rockets of the World. Third Edition.
Alway, Peter.
Ann Arbor: Saturn Press, 1999.
Quarto-size (oversized). Light wear and minor rubbing to edges of boards (mainly fore-edge of back cover) with scuffing to covers and some faint, minor scratches. Slight bowing to boards. 384 pages with illustrations, errata, bibliography, list of mail order resources, constant scale diagram, and index. A reference on rockets, mainly for modelers but with plenty of information for astronomy enthusiasts.
Price: $175.00
Beyond Velikovsky: The History of a Public Controversy.
Bauer, Henry H.
Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1984.
Very good octavo hardcover in good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has light wear and rubbing along edges with a few minor, closed tears on upper edges of covers with light scuffing. Inscribed by author to previous owner on front free endpaper. 354 pages with figures, references, and index. A study of the controversies created by the theories of Immanuel Velikovsky on planetary physics.
Price: $20.00
With Every Wind of Doctrine: Biblical, Historical and Scientific Perspectives of Geocentricity.
Bouw, Gerardus D.
Tychonian Society, 1984.
Very good softcover. Light wear to edges of covers with some minor scuffing. Clean, unmarked text. Tight binding. 288 pages with illustrations, endnotes, and 2 appendices. A study and attempted refutation of Copernican theory by the leader of the biblical and geocentric view of astronomy. Uncommon.
Price: $75.00
Hamlet's Mill : An Essay on Myth and the Frame of Time.
Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend.
Boston: Gambit Inc., 1969.
Good octavo hardcover in blue cloth binding without dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of covers with some scuffing to covers. Bumping to head and heel of spine and upper corners of covers. Stamp of previous owner on back of frontispiece. Light foxing to upper edges of pages. 505 page with illustrations, footnotes, appendices, bibliography, and index. A study of mythology and astronomy.
Price: $20.00
People in Space : Policy Perspectives for a "Star Wars" Century.
Katz, James Everett, editor.
New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1985.
Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with minor bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has light wear along edges and minor scuffing to covers. Name of previous owner written on front free endpaper. 222 pages with notes after each essay. A collection of essays on the political and sociological aspects of increased human activity in outer space.
Price: $20.00
Tracking Apollo to the Moon.
Lindsay, Hamish.
London: Springer, 2001.
Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards with some rubbing to head and heel of spine. Dj has some rubbing and wear along edges with a few minor tears and some scuffing to covers. Some page corners are creased. Some underlining in text. 426 pages with illustrations, 2 appendices, quiz, list of references, glossary, and index.
Price: $20.00
Papers Presented to the 45th Annual Meteoritical Society Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, 13-16 September, 1982. Co-Sponsered by McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, Washington University and Lunar and Planetary Institute. Hosted by the McDonnell Cente
Lunar and Planetary Institute.
Houston: Lunar and Planetary Institute, 1982.
Fair staple-bound softcover with yellow covers. Wear and rubbing to edges with creasing on corners of covers. Name of previous owner and some notes and time written on covers in ink. Also description written along what would be the spine of the work. This work appears to have been rolled up a few times. Work is paginated based on conference session. A collection of abstracts and programs for this conference on meteors.
Price: $35.00
Results of the First United States Manned Orbital Space Flight, February 20, 1962.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Washington DC: 1962.
Good softcover in blue illustrated wrapper featuring space capsule on front cover. Wear and light rubbing to edges of covers with browning along spine and some light scuffing. Light creasing to upper corners of front and back cover. 204 pages with illustrations, tables, charts, and 4 appendices.
Price: $20.00
An Administrative History of NASA, 1958-1963.
Rosholt, Robert L.
Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1966.
Very good octavo hardcover in blue-grey binding with gilt lettering without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with some scuffing to covers including mark on back cover. 381 pages with figures, tables, 6 appendices, classified bibliography of sources cited, and index.
Price: $25.00
History of British Space Science.
Sir Harrie Massey FRS and M. O. Robins CBE.
Cambridge University Press, 1986..
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in blue glossy binding without dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards with minor bumping to head and heel of spine. Light scuffing to covers. 514 pages with figures, tables, glossaries, appendices, annexes, endnotes, and index. A detailed examination of British space science from the 1950s to the 1980s.
Price: $200.00
Measuring the Universe: Cosmic Dimensions from Aristarchus to Halley.
Van Helden, Albert.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1985.
Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has light wear along edges and some minor scuffing to covers. Review note laid in. 203 pages with figures, tables, endnotes, bibliography, and index. An interesting history of attempts to determine the dimensions of the universe from the third century B.C. to the eighteenth century.
Price: $40.00
De Labore Solis : Airy's Failure Reconsidered.
Walter van der Kamp.
Pitt Meadows, BC: Published by the author, No date.
Good softcover in blue covers. Light wear and rubbing to edges of covers with some minor scuffing. Cover was not quite bound even with text so upper edges of pages peek over the front cover. Clean, unmarked text. Tight binding. Slight creasing on upper corner of back cover. 172 pages with figures and endnotes. A work of geocentric astronomy.
Price: $25.00
