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Intelligent Life in the Universe [Review Copy]
by I. S. Shklovskii and Carl Sagan
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good Plus
- Seller
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Baldwinsville, New York, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco: Holden-Day, Inc., 1966. ARC Advance Review Copy . Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. San Francisco: Holden-Day, Inc., 1966. First Edition, review copy. Publisher's complimentary slips laid in. Octavo, 509 pp. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering, photo-pictorial jacket. Association rubber stamp of noted San Francisco collector and bibliographer George King Fox at front pastedown, else near fine book in a very good plus or better jacket showing a bit of small-scale peripheral chipping. Scarce review copy of the first book in the distinguished scientific, educational, publishing and television career of noted Cornell scientist Carl Sagan, who would in those ways go on after this collaboration to become probably the most famous name worldwide within the subject of this book - exobiology. Replete with photographs, charts, and even cartoons, this hefty and rich compendium was used as a college textbook long after its publishing, at which time Sagan - looking spiffy and wet-behind-the-ears-young in the jacket photo - was an Assistant Professor of Astronomy at Harvard. Destined to become a historical landmark in scientific publishing as exobiology continues out into the universe to further realize itself. L-31n
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- Seller
- Singularity Rare & Fine
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 000498
- Title
- Intelligent Life in the Universe [Review Copy]
- Author
- I. S. Shklovskii and Carl Sagan
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good Plus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- ARC Advance Review Copy
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Holden-Day, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1966
- Pages
- 509
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
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- Chipping
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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- Gilt
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- Advance Review Copy
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- Octavo
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