Search Results: coming of the space age by clarke arthur c

Meredith Press, 1967. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Panther Books, 1970. Paperback. Good. 1970. No edition remarks. 332 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and sunning.

New York: Pyramid Books (1967).. Soft cover. Very Good. Reprint. Paperback. 205 pp. A clean copy with only light wear.

Pyramid Books, 1967. Soft cover. Good. Mass-market paperback, glossy black wrapper with blobs of purple and white, yellow and white lettering, 205 lightly browned pages, a tiny crease at top tips of pages 205 and final end paper. Slight surface wear at top front tip and spine bottom edge, light wear to other tips and spine edges. Good.

Harper & Row, 1965. Hardcover. Fine/Fair. DJ has two one-inch tears at top front edge with crease parallel to top front edge, very tiny tear at bottom front edge next to spine, micronick at bottom back edge. Fair DJ/Very Fine book.

Harper & Row NY, 1965, 1965. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. Octavo, hardcover, Dj in mylar. Ex-school lib. with stamp, pocket remains at back, else in VGin VG black dj. First Ed. 241 pp. The book is divided into three sections: the first is about space travel; the second, communication sate llites; the third in a lighter vein about scientific meddling, lunatic fringe, moral obligations of the scientist and so on.

Harper & Row, 1965. 2nd Ed. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. (2d, H-Q) Slightly smaller book, black cloth spine, black boards, silver lettering bright on spine, 241 lightly browned pages plus list of references. DJ shiny black background, red and orange line design to front, with black and gray circle design as well, b/w photo of Clarke at top back, white back lightly browned. DJ has two microtears and creases at spine bottom edge, microtear at bottom back tip. Very Good DJ/Very Fine book.

England: Gollancz, 1966. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Nice UK 1st edition lacking a jacket.

New York: Harper & Row, 1965. First Printing. good, good. 241, figures, appendix, references, some wear to top and bottom edges of DJ. Collection of pieces about the space age and communication satellites.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1966. Hardcover. First Edition, First Impression. 5 x 8in. viii. 241pp. Publisher's cloth boards. VERY GOOD in Very Good dust jacket. The book itself shows the spine titling somewhat faded, endpapers with light tape remnants, otherwise remains Fine/As New. The dust jacket shows marginal shelf rubbing along the extremities, price-clipped, else Fine/As New. As pictured.

Meredith Press, 1967. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

NEW YORK NY: MEREDITH PRESS. FINE IN NEAR FINE DUST JACKET. PUB 1967. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL BLACK CLOTH COVERED BOARDS WITH SILVER AND BLUE TITLES TO THE SPINE AND FRONT COVER. BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. D.J. IS ABOUT FINE WITH A TRACE OF RUB TO THE SPINE ENDS, A SMALL ABRASION AT THE TOP FRONT FORE-EDGE CORNER, AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. A BEAUTIFUL CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK. Thirty six selection including essays by astronautic pioneers, rocket scientists, space philosophers, science fiction writers including authors Olaf Stapledon, C.S. Lewis, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Goddard, Werner Von Braun, Carl Sagan, John Glenn, Sam Moskowitz, J.B.S. Haldane, etc. .

London: Victor Gollancz, 1966.. First edition, 8vo, (x), 241, (3) pp. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, spine a little darkened, top edge with some minor tears.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1967. Book. Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 301pp. Famous accounts of Man's probing of the universe, selected and edited by Arthur C. Clarke. In bright condition, Bump to lower corners, spine a little sunned. Fred's Clark 's ( the brother of the author) Signature in light pencil to f.f.endpaper..

MEREDITH PRESS. Collectible - Very Good. SIGNED! NY: Meredith Press 1967. 1st stated. Hardcover 8vo 301 pgs. English. Signed by Clarke on front endpaper. Very good to near fine in a very good dust jacket. Small light brown stain to top edge of textblock. Light foxing to endpapers. Else near fine. Jacket is edgeworn. Inquire if you need further information.

New York: Meredith Press, 1967. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Xiv, 301 Pp. Black Cloth Stamped In Silver. First Edition Stated. Fine In Fine Dj, As New J. Signed By Clarke On The Front Endpaper.

Voices from the Sky: Previews of the Coming Space Age, Harper & Row, NY, 1965, first edition, very fine (the covers snap back) in fine full color pictorial dw.

Stated First Edition, signed by editor on front endpaper.
Book is in Very Good condition, with very light edgewear to cover, pages are unmarked (aside from author signature) and secure.
Dust jacket is in Good- condition, with edgewear, some chipping, mostly to corners. "Autographed Edition" sticker on front of jacket. Light discoloration marks to rear of jacket.

New York: Meredith Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 6 1/8 X 9 1/4 Inches. 301 PP. Stated "First Edition" on the copyright page. Original price of $6.95 intact on front flap. Signed and inscribed by Clarke to Frank Winter, former Curator of Rocketry of the National Air and Space Museum (NASM) of the Smithsonian Institution. Winter was also an internationally recognized historian of rocketry and spaceflight and the author of several landmark books in the field. Little doubt that Winter and Clarke had much in common. Fitting that Clarke's papers all now reside at the National Air and Space Museum. Interestingly, for fans of the show "Manhattan" (based on the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, NM), the main character is named Frank Winter... I will let you jump to your own conclusions...<br /> <br /> <br /> A fine collection of literature from some of the pioneers of space exploration and intergalactic writing. Includes work by Wernher… Read More

New York: Meredith Press, 1967. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Good. xiv, 301, [3] pages. Signed by the Editor on the fep. Sir Arthur Charles Clarke CBE FRAS (16 December 1917 - 19 March 2008) was an English science-fiction writer, science writer, futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host. He co-wrote the screenplay for the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, widely regarded as one of the most influential films of all time. Clarke was a science fiction writer, an avid popularizer of space travel, and a futurist of a distinguished ability. He wrote many books and many essays for popular magazines. In 1961, he received the Kalinga Prize, a UNESCO award for popularizing science. Clarke's science and science-fiction writings earned him the moniker "Prophet of the Space Age". His science-fiction writings in particular earned him a number of Hugo and Nebula awards, which along with a large readership, made him one of the towering figures of the… Read More