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New York: Viking. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1952. Hardcover. Third printing. Black w/gold spine lettering, stamped in blind on the front board. viii, 328 pp. Index. Maps. Drawings by Olga Ley, the author's wife (except for one cave drawing). Ley was a German-American science writer and space advocate who helped popularize rocketry and space flight in both Germany and the United States. The crater Ley on the far side of the Moon is named in his honor. A clean, straight copy. The dust jacket is price clipped, edge worn with small chips and tears; tape applied to the spine to hold library mark. From the library of Stevenson House Library and so stamped on the ffep. Now in a new archival cover. A nice copy. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 328 pages .

New York: Viking. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Two toned, orange & green cloth cover. Pp. viii, 328. Index. Maps. Drawings by Olga Ley, the author's wife (except for one cave drawing). Ley was a German-American science writer and space advocate who helped popularize rocketry and space flight in both Germany and the United States. The crater Ley on the far side of the Moon is named in his honor. A clean, straight copy with faded and dust soiled blue publishers stain. The dust jacket is bright black w rust-brown design and spine, edge worn with small chips and tears; cover with some scuff marks, back cover toned. Now in a new archival cover. A nice copy. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 328 pages .

[New York]: Sterling Pub. Co. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1988. Second Printing. Hardcover. 0806969083 . Boards are clean, not bumped. Fore edges have a tiny bit of shelf wear. Interior is clean and legible. Not remaindered. Dust Jacket is in VG condition. Not chipped or crinkled. Not price clipped.; 9.20 X 6.20 X 0.80 inches; 154 pp pages .

New York, Toronto: Bantam Books. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Pp xviii, 302. Index. Illustrated. Tightly bound copy, with single line marginalia scattered throughout text. Abstract: Peter Ward, on a journey that traverses continents and travels into the past, searches for the clues to these disastrous events. His reason is urgent and chilling, for Ward and many other prominent scientists have documented signs that a third mass extinction has already begun on our planet. Could its primary cause reach back just 100,000 years, when the earth felt the impact of another wandering, potentially destructive force, a new 'asteroid' called Homo sapiens?" "Ward's journey progresses from fossil hunting in Africa to following a dinosaur trail in Hell Creek, Montana, and finally to climbing high in the remote Caucasus Mountains of Soviet Georgia to see if its thick white limestone holds evidence of a long-ago planetary destruction. At each… Leer más

New York: Appleton Century Crofts. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1970. Hardcover. 0390430404 . Hardcover. Condition: VG/VG, Orange cloth binding, Top edges foxed, The dust jacket is slightly edge worn; 8vo ; 594 pp pages .

New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1970. Hardcover. 0393099210 . Hardcover. Condition: NF/VG, Black cloth binding, The dust jacket is edge worn. ; 8vo ; 270 pp pages .

Ridge Press Book Grosset & Dunlap. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1977. Hardcover. 0448144123 . Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine Jacket. **Very good in white textured boards with green titles to the spine and red titles to the front board. No inscriptions. Spine tight. Interior pages clean. No tears. 285mm x 225mm. 192 pages of photographs and text. ***Ken Heyman worked for Life magazine in New York, and also worked closely with anthropologist Margaret Mead. A first impression of the true first edition - a thought provoking collection of photographs of children across the world by Ken Heyman. ; 8vo ; 192 pp pages .

Basic Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1989. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0465023754 . First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover in black boards w black cloth spine Very Good unmarked in Very Good jacket. " The Search for Dark Matter in the Universe " ; 9.50 X 6.70 X 1.20 inches; 352 pp pages .

Chicago And London: The University of Chicago Press. Very Good. 1980. Softcover. Trade paperback. 338 pages, with bibliographical references and index. Illustrated with maps, graphs, charts, and b & w photographs. Papers presented at a symposium, July 1976 sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research held at the Burg-Wartenstein castle in Austria. This copy has modest edge wear and age soil, is not marked otherwise, and the binding is tight. ; 8vo .

London: The Systematics Association. Near Fine. 1959. First Edition. Softcover. Original Wraps. Toned cover lightly creased. 140 pages illustrations, map. Contents: Function and taxonomic importance / A.J. Cain; Clades and grades / Sir Julian Huxley; Functional morphology and taxonomic problems of Arthropoda / S.M. Manton; Mastication and taxonomy in the macropodine skull / W.D.L. Ride; Mode of life and taxonomy in irregular sea-urchins / D. Nichols; Environmental determination of the phenotype / G. Ainsworth Harrison; The taxonomic treatment of ecotypic variation / V.H. Heywood; The classification of the Musophagidae / R.E. Moreau; Subspeciation in British charrs / G.F. Friend; Behaviour as a help in taxonomy / J.M. Cullen. ; 8vo .

McGraw Hill Book Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1957. Third Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1957 - Third Edition. No Jacket ; 8vo ; 664 pp pages .

Little Brown and Company. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. The dust jacket is edge worn. ; 8vo ; 453 pp pages .

Templeton Foundation Press. Very Good. 1999. Softcover. 1890151203 . Softcover in VG condition ; 8.46 X 5.64 X 0.79 inches; 260 pp pages .

Bantam. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2010. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0553805371 . First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover in black boards w black spine, in Fine unmarked condition in Fine jacket ; 9.25 X 6.30 X 0.80 inches; 208 pp pages .

MIT Press. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1983. Hardcover. 0262200457 . Hardcover in white boards Very Good unmarked in Fair sun faded jacket. Miner Shelf Wear "This absorbing book explains a wide variety of surprising and marvelous adaptive phenomena in nature. It is a simply written and well-illustrated account of the world of biophysics - the ingeneous means plants and animals have devised to turn the principles of physics and engineering to their advantage in the struggle to adapt and survive." ; 9.10 X 6.10 X 0.90 inches; 232 pp pages .

New York: Harcourt & Brace. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition.in black cloth boards Near fine in near fine dust jacket. ; 8vo ; 712 pp pages .

MJF Books. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1998. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 1567312446 . First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover in black boards w white spine, in Fine unmarked condition in VG jacket, jacket has a 1/2 inch tear on the top of the front. " Theory, Practice and Application" ; 8.30 X 5.60 X 0.70 inches; 176 pp pages .

Sudbury, MA: Jones And Bartlett Publishers. Very Good. 1998. Second Edition. Softcover. 0763706051 . College text. Clean. Internet references may be obsolete. Chapters include special features and activities and are followed by comprehension questions, further study etc. , Titles: An Earth-Centered Universe; A Sun-Centered Universe; Galileo, Newton, and Einstein; Light and the Electromagnetic Spectrum; telescopes: Window to the Universe; The Earth-Moon System; A planetary Overview; The Terrestrial Planets; the Jovian Planets; Pluto and Solar System Debris; The Sun; Measuring the Properties of Stars; Interstellar Matter and Star Formation; The Lives and Deaths of Stars; The Deaths of Massive Stars; The Milky Way Galaxy; The Diverse Galaxies; Cosmology: the Nature of the Universe .

Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Good with no dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. 0030811988 . Hardcover. Condition: Good. Red Cloth, Foxing on the margins. No Jacket. ; 8vo ; 436 pp pages .

Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. 0030811988 . Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Red Cloth, No Jacket. ; 8vo ; 436 pp pages .