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The Making of a Moon: The Story of the Earth Satellite Program
by Clarke, Arthur C
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- Seller
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Las Vegas , Nevada, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1958 First printing of the stated first edition. Publisher's quarter black cloth over blue cloth boards with publisher's monogram in silver on the front cover and silver-lettered spine, twenty-four illustrations within text, and twenty-four illustrated plates.205pp., with index. Book with age-toning along margins of endpapers, chip/tear to bottom half-title page, short, vertical indentation mark at bottom page to first 15pp., else book in fine condition; dust jacket with some rubbing and mild edge wear, else fine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Idler Fine Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005003
- Title
- The Making of a Moon: The Story of the Earth Satellite Program
- Author
- Clarke, Arthur C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1958
- Keywords
- SCIENCE, ASTRONAUTICS, POLITICAL, SPACE PROGRAM, SCIENCE FICTION, United States' Earth satellite program, Project Vanguard.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Idler Fine Books
Biblio member since 2003
Las Vegas , Nevada
About Idler Fine Books
We specialize in First Editions in Fiction, Poetry, Science Fiction, Horror, Mystery, many signed first editions and limited editions.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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