Spacecraft in Fact and Fiction
by Harrison, Harry; Edwards, Malcolm
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0896730190
- ISBN 13
- 9780896730199
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Exeter Books / Orbis Publishing Limited, 1979. Hardcover, quarto sized bound in blue cloth lettered in gold on spine, in publisher's boldly illustrated dust-jacket. 128 pages. Illustrated with 150 color photographs depicting both real and imagined space-flight, from 17th century engraving of Cyrano de Bergerac to scenes from cinematic classics like Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, as well as rare photographs from early rocket experimentation to images of futuristic NASA spaceship designs. First British edition. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy in very nice, complete and unclipped, dust-jacket. Near fine in a near fine dust-jacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013658
- Title
- Spacecraft in Fact and Fiction
- Author
- Harrison, Harry; Edwards, Malcolm
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0896730190
- ISBN 13
- 9780896730199
- Publisher
- Exeter Books / Orbis Publishing Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- Science Fiction, Rocketry, Spacecraft
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction;
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
About Great Expectations Rare Books
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