About this title: This lively and authoritative survey by an internationally famous physicist offers captivating perspectives on the origins of the galaxies, stars, chemical elements, and planetary systems. Illustrated with diagrams and the author's own drawings, it explains complex concepts in a simple manner. "Fascinating." -- "San Francisco Chronicle." 40 ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Viking Press, New York
Date Published: 1952
Description: Good. xii, 147 p. illus. 22 cm. "The third of...[the author's] cosmological trilogy, being a sequel to The birth and death of the sun, and Biography of the earth. " read more
Binding: Unknown Binding
Publisher: Bantam Books
Date Published: 1970
Description: Good. ---146 pgs. Interior-Nice overall condition. The paperback cover has only light signs of use. -Publish Place: New York-Size: 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Mentor Books, New York
Date Published: 1957
Description: Fair. No Jacket as Issued. Wear to the covers with creases. Bottom spine slightly torn. Pages browned with age. Water stains to the bottom of the pages. Text is clean. First Mentor printing. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Dover Publications
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780486438689ISBN:0486438686
Description: Acceptable. Well used. Still readable but not for the collector. All orders processed within 2 business days. Ships from Foxboro MA. read more
Binding: Unknown Binding
Publisher: Viking Press
Date Published: 1952
Description: Good. DJ shows wear but is in plastic. Clean pages. Tight Spine. Light shelf wear. Minimal wear to cover. Cover different from picture! . Fair DJ. read more
Binding: Mass market pb
Publisher: New American Library, New York
Date Published: 1959
Description: Good. No dust jacket. name stamped on front cover back cover corner torn off yelowed. Unknown printing. Illustrated by. 144 p. ; illus. ; index; read more
Description: Good. A dramatic, lucid explaination of the origins of galaxies, stars and planets in the lifht of what science knows today. Profusely illustrated. read more
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