Tychonian Society, 1984. First edition. Trade Paperback. 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 a leader of the biblical and geocentric view of astronomy. Uncommon.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. First edition. Hardcover in full cloth. Thick octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Emboss of former owner on title page. 540 p. w/ illus., endnotes, bibliography, index. The major biography of this late 17th -early 18th century English...
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1918. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket. Ex Library with usual stamps, sticker on spine, DISCARDED stamp on flyleaf. Old library bookplate on pastedown. 268 p. w/ b&w illus, footnotes. In 5 sections, each a....
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover in full cloth. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. 499 p. w/ illus, glossary, bibliography, index, and extensive endnotes. Joint creator of the Hertzsprunger-Russell diagram that defined the field for stellar astrophysics, he also...
Cambridge, MA: Sky Publishing Corporation, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 309 p. w/ illus., footnotes, bibliography, index. 12 essays drawn from Houston's tenure as a columnis at Sky & Telescope from 1946 to 1994.
New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Light wear to edges and corners of baords and jacket. 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.
Houston: Lunar and Planetary Institute, 1982. First edition. Oversized Paperback. 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...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover w/glossy pictorial boards. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. Spine a bit faded. Bumping at head and heel of spine. 411 p. w/ endnotes, index. A scholarly biography of Keeler, first astronomer at...
Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. 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...
Cambridge University Press, 1986. Hardcover. 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...
