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Hardcover, Green cloth boards with black title to cover, published March 1934, 134 pages, signed by author on front end papers, "With A.C. Gifford's Compliments," Illustrated, Book Condition: GOOD, covers faded and rubbed, corners bumped and frayed with boards exposed, areas of the spine frayed, spine faded, soil to covers (see photos), pages tanned but otherwise interior is clean and unmarked. Contents: (reprinted from The Evening Post, Wellington, NZ), Do We Live in a World of Chance?, The Mountains of the Moon, The Origin of our Solar System, Is the Universe Doomed to Die?, The Mysterious Universe, The Problem of Asteroids, The Origin of Asteroids, Local Enthusiasm, City Observatory in Constant Use, The Expanding Universe, The Immensity of the Universe, Tycho to Halley, Where are the Stars?, Exploration in the Immensity of Space, Hershel Peers into the Immensity of Space, Clusters and Nebulae, Herschel Discovers 2500, How Far Away Are the Stars?, The Cepheid Variables, The Standard Candles of the Universe, The Study of Variable Stars, Stellar Variation, The Suns Place in the Universe, Is the Galaxy A Single Spiral?, The Spiral Nebulae Tell of Immortal Cosmos, Man Peeps at a few of His Marvellous Surroundings, The Astronomical Work of A.W. Bickerton, Celestial Collisions, When Star Meets Star+ many more topics, SCARCE hardcover title by prominent New Zealand Astronomer. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 001265
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