THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE
by Hoyle, Fred
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-
- Seller
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Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950. 142 pp. Gray covers with black linen spine. Cover corners and edges are lightly rubbed, spine ends are bent. Endpapers with image of Orion and the Dark Bay taken at the Mount Wilson Observatory. Spine slightly cocked. Interior tight and clean.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-. Illus. by B/W Photographs. Size: Approx. 5 1/4" x 7 3/4". Astronomy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bee Creek Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002714
- Title
- THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE
- Author
- Hoyle, Fred
- Illustrator
- B/W Photographs
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1950
- Keywords
- Astronomy
- Bookseller catalogs
- Astronomy;
- Size
- Size: Approx. 5 1/4" x 7 3/4"
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About the Seller
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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....