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The UFO Report 1992
Edited By Timothy Good
ISBN: 0283061081
Sidgwick & Jackson Limited London 1992 Reprinted
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Softcover Has a plastic cover. Very Good
Price: 15.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 018192 Bookseller: Q's Books
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UFO Crash Secrets
Moseley, James W.
Abelard Productions 1991
4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Softcover Very Good
Price: 35.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 018198 Bookseller: Q's Books
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Origins 2003
no author
2003
4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Softcover Has scribbled out inscription on front cover from previous owner. Very Good
Price: 8.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 018308 Bookseller: Q's Books
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Baker’s Dictionary of Astrology: Volume One, Volume Two, Volume Three - For the Twenty-First Century
Editor-in-Chief Baker, Douglas M.
ISBN: 0906006805
Baker Publications Essendon, Hertfordshire 1991 First Edition
4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Hardcover Three book set: Volume One, Volume Two, Volume Three. Volume One has the above details. Volume Two was published in 1992 and is also a first edition, and signed by Douglas Baker. Volume Three was published in 1994 and is also a first edition, not signed by the author. Extra postage will be required for this purchase and extra scans are available. Very Good
Price: 2500.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 015002 Bookseller: Q's Books
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In the Centre of Immensities
Lovell, Bernard
Hutchinson & Co Publishers Limited Great Britain 1979
4to Hard Cover price clipped, slight foxing along edges of pages Very Good
Price: 10.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 011645 Bookseller: Q's Books
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The Exploding Universe
Henbest, Nigel
ISBN: 085685509x
Marshall Cavendish Books Limited Great Britain 1979
4to Hard Cover Very Good
Price: 28.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 011590 Bookseller: Q's Books
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Eclipse
David Carol Allen
ISBN: 0043000959
Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1987 Sydney 1987
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Soft Cover Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine
Price: 10.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 002961 Bookseller: Q's Books
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Lets Look at the Sky / The Planets
Moore, Patrick
ISBN: 0727803484
United Kingdom: Severn House, 1975 United Kingdom 1975
8vo Hard Cover Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Ex-Library. 8vo. Ex-Library Very Good
Price: 9.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 006522 Bookseller: Q's Books
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The Friendly Stars: How to Locate and Identify Them
Martha Evans Martin & Donald Howard Menzel
ISBN: 0486210995
Dover Publications NY 1966
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Soft Cover A new edition of an astronomical classic first published in 1907 with 23 new illustrations by Ching-Sung Yu; descriptions and histories of Capella, Acturus, Deneb, Spica, Vega, Altair, Antares, Formalhaut, Aldebaran, Orion's brightest stars, the heavenly twins (Castor and Pollux), the two Dog Stars, Regulus; double stars, constellations, the mystery of the Pleiades; all visible to the naked eye therefore not requiring any kind of equipment; presented in a refreshingly light and readable style. 147pp, occasional neat pencil underlining, tape marks on eps. Good
Price: 25.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0795 Bookseller: Kay's Secondhand Books and Sheet Music
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The Amateur Astronomer and His Telescope
Roth, Gunter D
ISBN: 0571096565
Faber and Faber London 1972
Soft Cover Translated by Alex Helm. New and revised edition, 1972. 182pp. Stiff boards. Light wear and soiling on covers, heavy foxing on page edges, pages are very good. Bookshop stamps and marks on fep. Good
Price: 20.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0797 Bookseller: Kay's Secondhand Books and Sheet Music
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Skyshooting - Photography for Amateur Astronomers
R Newton Mayall and Margaret W Mayall
ISBN: NoISBN
Dover Publications New York 1968
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Soft Cover A revised and enlarged version of the work originally published in 1949 under the title "Skyshooting - Hunting the Stars with Your Camera". 186pp, cover creased, page edges lightly soiled, a little dog-eared in corners, shop stamp on fep. Good
Price: 20.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0798 Bookseller: Kay's Secondhand Books and Sheet Music
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Frank’s Book of the Telescope: a Guide to Instruments for the Amateur Astronomer
Frank, Charles
ISBN: NoISBN
Charles Frank Glasgow 1959
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Hard Cover 2nd Edition (revised) March 1959. Includes instructions on how to make a simple telescope using ordinary hand tools; illustrated with line drawings and b/w photographs. 132pp, cover lightly soiled, foxing on eps. Good
Price: 20.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0799 Bookseller: Kay's Secondhand Books and Sheet Music
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Fire on Earth, In Search of the Doomsday Asteroid
Gribbin, John and Mary
ISBN: 068481689X
Simon & Schuster London 1996
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Hard Cover All that is known about comets to date, revealing that these cosmic missiles have been a continuing problem throughout geological time; by examining evidence gathered from the effects of known impacts, the authors come to a frightening conclusion about the future of humankind on earth. 264pp. As New
Price: 20.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0685 Bookseller: Kay's Secondhand Books and Sheet Music
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The Stars, A New Way to See Them
Rey, H A
ISBN: 0701150513
Chatto & Windus London 1975
4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Hard Cover Revised First English Edition, 1975. This book is meant for people who want to know just enough about the stars to be able to go out at night & find the major constellations, for the mere pleasure of it; shows constellations as shapes which suggest what the names imply. Pictorial boards, 160pp, tape marks on bep. Very Good
Price: 25.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0265 Bookseller: Kay's Secondhand Books and Sheet Music
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The Amateur Astronomer
Rukl, Antonin
ISBN: 0706410343
Octopus Books London 1979
4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Hard Cover Translated by Olga Kuthanová. Consultant editor John Gribbin. First English edition, 1979. The emphasis is on practical matters: full instructions on where to look to see the most lovely & dramatic sights in the heavens; beautifully coloured illustrations, charts & diagrams. 184pp, tape marks & foxing on eps. As New
Price: 50.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0266 Bookseller: Kay's Secondhand Books and Sheet Music
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Text-Book on Spherical Astronomy
Smart, W M
ISBN: NoISBN
Cambridge University Press 1960
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Soft Cover 4th Edition. Cover lightly worn & marked, fep has tape marks & name & address of previous owners, light foxing, 430pp. Good
Price: 30.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0251 Bookseller: Kay's Secondhand Books and Sheet Music
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Operation Morning Light; Terror in Our Skies, the True Story of Cosmos 954
Heaps, Leo
ISBN: 0709203233
Paddington Press Ltd New York 1978 First Edition
8vo - up to 9 ¾" tall - Octavo Blue Boards 208pp., acknowledgements, glossary, sources and index. Light blue coloured endpapers. The text is illustrated with black and white photographs, and flight path of Cosmos 954. Red coloured boards with silver writing on the spine. Shelf wear evident to the bottom edges of the book and dust marks to the top paper edge. Photographic dustwrapper, showing a picture of Canadian wilderness, with orange, yellow and white writing on front panel and orange and white on the spine. A 0.5" tear on the rear, top back spine gutter and a small amount of chipping on the bottom edge of the dustwrapper is present. Slight fading as well. Previous owners trading on the ffep. In December 1977 a Soviet satellite -- Cosmos 954 -- started to malfunction and fell to earth over Canada. This is a story of that accident and the tri - nation (Canada, Russia, United States) cover-up. Digital image available upon request. Aviation -- History Good
Price: 18.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0101697 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Stars of the Southern Heavens
Nangle, James
Angus and Robertson Sydney 1958 Fourth Edition
Octavo- over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Navy Blue Cloth VIII, 129 pages, indexed. Illustrated dustwrapper, six maps, six pages of black-and-white photographs. Previous owner's name on front end page, dustwrapper chipped and creased, with most of the damage occurring on the bottom edge. Top edge of book slightly dusty. The author was government astronomer of New South Wales, and the work of revision for the fourth edition of his book has been done by the present holder of that office. Important features of the revision include the substitution of a new chapter for that on the Milky Way and the addition of chapters on the planets and on radio astronomy. Astronomy Good
Price: 20.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0205458 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Mars Beckons: the Mysteries, the Challenges, the Expectations of Our Next Great Adventure in Space
Wilford, John Noble
ISBN: 0394583590
Alfred A. Knopf New York 1990 Stated First Edition
quarto - over 9¾" - 12" Tall Ochre Cloth black Boards 245 pages, illustrated dustwrapper, text illustrated with drawings, reproductions of paintings, and photographs, appendix, bibliography, index. Sticker residue mark on front end page, watermark (stain) on the underside top edge of the front panel, some pencil marks parallel to the text throughout the book. The author begins with a discussion of the history of man's relationship with Mars. He traces and fascination with this planet from the earliest written Babylonian records of 3000 years ago, through the planetary theories of Johannes Kepler, Galileo, Schiaparelli and Percival Lowell. He then focuses, with superb reporting and the most informed speculation, on our future designs on the planet, probing the possibilities of colonisation and the natural resources that Mars offers. Reasonable
Price: 14.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0205590 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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Man on the Moon
The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd
The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd Melbourne 1969 First Edition
Quarto - up to 12" tall - Quarto Photographic Card 64pp. Illustrated end boards, both different, front board illustrated with photograph of the Moon and of salient sites pertaining to Apollo 11 mission, rear card shows photograph of lunar surface. The text is illustrated with black-and-white and coloured photography, black-and-white illustrations and line drawings. Photographic front cover showing an astronaut (? Neil Armstrong) on the moon, with white writing on the front panel. The book is slightly scuffed and rubbed and there is rubbing along the book edges. Slight creasing to the book corners and to the head and to the heel of the spine. A souvenir pamphlet/booklet on the first landfall on the Moon made by Apollo 11. Pamphlet Good for Age
Price: 15.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0102137 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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The Universe and Dr. Einstein
Barnett, Lincoln
Victor Gollancz Ltd London 1953 Fourth Impression
12mo - up to 7 ¾" tall - Duodecimo Red Cloth 112pp., foreword by Albert Einstein, acknowledgement, reading list and index. Text is illustrated with black-and-white technical drawings and line drawings. Red coloured boards with gilt writing on the spine. Bumping to the head into the heel of the spine and there is browning and foxing to the paper edges. Original bookseller's sticker on the front page down, lower right-hand corner. Very faint offset tanning visible along with foxing spots. Occasional pencil mark in the text. Plain text dust wrapper with bone coloured background and green and black writing on the front panel and spine. Dust wrapper corners are rubbed and slightly chipped and there is darkening to the spine and front panel and along the fold over edges. Foxing marks and other marks and noted on the dustwrapper panels and there is slight chipping to the top dustwrapper edge along some creasing. Foxing noted on that for so side of the dustwrapper and there is a 0.25 " on the lower front spine gutter edge. On the rear panel there is a number of which has been stamped -- No. "312537". Dustwrapper is priced clipped, front fold over lower righthand corner. The author attempts "...to describe the universe as it now appears in the light of modern scientific and cosmological theory.". Science Reasonable
Price: 15.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0102181 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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