Contact
by Sagan, Carl
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1985. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible. Sagan's first novel. Carl Sagan, has brilliantly employed the freedom of fiction to imagine the greatest adventure of all-humanity's first encounter about contact between humans and extraterrestrials; it is also about contact, down here on Earth, with each other and with ourselves. Now a classic in speculative fiction, the late popular and distinguished astronomer's informed novel of what it may be like to actually make contact with aliens, via the SETI ('Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence') radio astronomy listening complex of huge field array receivers. 432 pages. Top & bottom of spine slightly bumped. The dust jacket inside flaps have a very slight tint of yellowing on the top & bottom edges. This book is really in fantastic shape..
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- Title
- Contact
- Author
- Sagan, Carl
- Book Condition
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- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1985
- Keywords
- FICTION SCIENCE GENERAL COLLECTIBLE EXTRATERRESTRIALS OUTER SPACE ALIENS ALIEN CONTACT FIRST NOVEL 0671434004
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