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Operation Morning Light: Terror in Our Skies, the True Story of Cosmos 954
by Heaps, Leo
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0709203233
- ISBN 13
- 9780709203230
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Paddington Press Ltd, New York, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. acknowledgements, glossary, sources and index. Light blue coloured endpapers. The text is illustrated with black and white photographs, and flight path of Cosmos 954. Red coloured boards with silver coloured titles to the back strip the spine. Shelf wear evident to the bottom edges of the book and dust marks to the top paper edge. Photographic dustwrapper, showing a picture of Canadian wilderness, with orange, yellow and white coloured titles to the front panel and orange and white coloured titles to the spine. A 0.5" tear on the rear, top back spine gutter and a small amount of chipping on the bottom edge of the dustwrapper is present. Slight fading to the backstrip. Previous owners name to the free front endpaper. In December 1977 a Soviet satellite -- Cosmos 954 -- started to malfunction and fell to earth over Canada. This is a story of that accident and the tri - nation (Canada, Russia, United States) cover-up. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 208 pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Politics & Government; Space Exploration; Russia; ISBN: 0709203233. ISBN/EAN: 9780709203230. Inventory No: 0101697. . 9780709203230
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- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0101697
- Title
- Operation Morning Light: Terror in Our Skies, the True Story of Cosmos 954
- Author
- Heaps, Leo
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0709203233
- ISBN 13
- 9780709203230
- Publisher
- Paddington Press Ltd
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Artificial Satellites -- Russian -- Accidents, Cosmos 954 -- History, Russian Space Flight -- Accident Politics & Government; Space Exploration; Russia; Unbranded ISBN: 0709203233 EAN: 9780709203230 Heaps, Leo Operation Morning Light: Terror i
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About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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