Exploring the Planets (Hamlyn all-colour paperbacks, popular science)
by Nicolson, Iain
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- VG/GD/ND
- ISBN 10
- 0600001202
- ISBN 13
- 9780600001201
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SOFTBACK ?HAMLYN ALL-COLOUR PAPERBACK? SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1970* Publisher: Hamlyn Publishing* Binding and cover condition: Colour illustrated soft card covers, no bumps or rubs. Some shelf wear to edges & corners, no creases to spine or hinge. Spine slightly darkened with head and tail slightly damaged and with tape over library mark. GD+* Contents condition: Ex-school-Library copy but clean, crisp & tight. Stamp to inside front cover otherwise no annotations or inscriptions, No tanning. VG* Illustrations: Colour illustrations & line drawings throughout.* Pages: 155 pp. text. v pp. Reading list, astronomical society addresses, index, & blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- The planets fascinated early observers of the sky, who attributed strange powers to them. Nowadays, when we appreciate the vastness of interstellar space, the planets and their moons hold a special interest as the only heavenly bodies we are ever likely to explore. This book is an illustrated guide to the members of our solar system and their exploration by spacecraft and Earth-based instruments. Amateurs can play an important part in amassing data about the planets and the author has suggested some interesting topics for observation. Altogether a handy and interesting book to have about you whenever you have a need to look for an answer in this field.* This is a NEAR VG ex-lib. copy of the 1st./1st. with some shelf wear reducing it to GD+*
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- Seller
- Cocksparrow Books (GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1132
- Title
- Exploring the Planets (Hamlyn all-colour paperbacks, popular science)
- Author
- Nicolson, Iain
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/GD/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0600001202
- ISBN 13
- 9780600001201
- Publisher
- Littlehampton Book Services Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London Uk 160
- Date Published
- 1970-10-16
- Size
- 17.8 x 11.2 x 1.3 cm
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