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Pioneering Space: Living on the Next Frontier
by James E. and Alcestis Oberg
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0070480346
- ISBN 13
- 9780070480346
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1986 McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York. 1986. 2nd Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; scant shelfwear to board edges; dust soiling to textblock top; small splash stains on textblock fore edge. DJ; Very Good +; NOT Price Clipped ($16.95); slight bumping to head, tail, and tips; slight rubbing to panels. Copper paper over boards with black cloth overlay on the spine with bright copper lettering on the spine. 298 pp 8vo. The time will soon come when permanently occupied space stations are a reality. This book takes amateur spacefarers on a flight to the future where they can experience space with all its emotions, terrors, and surprises as perceived and interpreted by those who have been there. It will be shown how we have been changed as a species by space travel and will be in the future- presenting a composite portrait from the views of real space pioneers, psychologists, philosophers, engineers and biologists. A serious look at how people will conquer space and be altered by the experience. A clean very presentable copy in a brodart mylar jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012387
- Title
- Pioneering Space: Living on the Next Frontier
- Author
- James E. and Alcestis Oberg
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0070480346
- ISBN 13
- 9780070480346
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill Book Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1986
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- space travel, astronauts, space stations, space technology, spacelife, space exploration,
Terms of Sale
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30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
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Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Rubbing
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- Cloth
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- Shelfwear
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- Price Clipped
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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