Catherine Bly Cox (26 results)

Condition: good. The book is in good condition with all pages and cover intact, including the dust jacket if originally issued. The spine may show light wear. Pages may contain some notes or highlighting, and there might be a "From the library of" label. Boxed set packaging, shrink wrap, or included media like CDs may be missing.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. excellent clean solid copy and jacket. all numbers present on copyright page.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Illus. With Photos (illustrator). Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. First printing with number line to 1. Octavo. 506 pp. Very good or better in like jacket. Black cloth with silver titling to spine. Bright and clean throughout with no annotations. Pin-sized red pen mark to top of block. Attractive, unclipped jacket bearing original price of $24.95 at inner flap. Jacket is showing minor edgewear and very slight creasing to head and foot of spine. Jacket now protected in an archival grade Brodart wrap. A nice copy. Securely shipped in a box.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing. 506pp. Former owner's name in ink on first page, a little shelfwear, very good in dust jacket with sl wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First printing of first edition. About Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Short, faint remainder mark to bottom edge of textblock, otherwise a quite nice, unmarked copy. Jacket a little crimped at head of spine and upper corner. One-eighth-inch tear at top front corner. 506 pages.

Condition: good. First Paperbk Printing. 510, wraps, illus., notes, glossary, index, lower corner front cover bent. The story of the Apollo space program from the perspective of the men and women behind the scenes who accomplished the extraordinary feat of landing a man on the moon in less than ten years.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Number line beginning with 1. Near fine hardback in near fine plus, if not fine dust jacket ($24.95). Book has light, if not very light 1/2 inch by 1/2 inch bumps to lower fore-edge corners. Only trivial additional signs of age/wear/previous use to book and dust jacket: primarily barely noticeable rubbing/shelf wear to front panel of dust jacket.

Condition: Very Good. hardcover. Text block, pages, boards and binding are pristine. Dust wrapper is like new. 1989, black cloth, full number line. Milod tanning, remiander mark to lower edge. Wonderful example. Supporting Bay Area Friends of the Library since 2010. Well packaged and promptly shipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. Number line beginning with 1. Near fine plus hardback in near fine jacket ($24.95). Book has two light, if not very light pinhead-sized spots to top edge of block. Dust jacket has a 3/8 inch closed tear to top edge o front panel and a very light, if not barely noticeable crease running from head to heel of spine. Only trivial additional signs of age/wear/previous use to book and dust jacket.

hardcover. Illus. with photos (illustrator). 1st. 8vo, 506 pp., A couple small spots of discoloration on the rear panle of dust jacket, else fine. Fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have some wear or writing/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Leather. Condition: Fine. Collector's Edition. Full teal leather, gilt title and embossed gilt decorations to front and rear boards, raised bands w/gilt panels, all edges gilt, moire silk endpapers and page-marker, printed on archival paper, (9.5 x 6.5 inches). Collector's Edition. 506 pages, with Notes and Index; illustrated. A scarce Easton Press title. A clean, tight, unread copy in "as new" condition.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Illus. With Photos (illustrator). Good. Dust Jacket NOT present. CD WILL BE MISSING. . SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Printing [Stated]. 506, [6] pages. Illustrations. Epilogue. Note., Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Charles Alan Murray (born January 8, 1943) is an American political scientist, sociologist, and writer. His book Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950-1980 (1984), which discussed the American welfare system, was widely read and discussed, and influenced government policy. He wrote the controversial book The Bell Curve (1994), written with Richard Herrnstein, in which he argues that intelligence is a better predictor than parental socio-economic status or education level of many individual outcomes including income, job performance, pregnancy out of wedlock, and crime, and that social welfare programs and education efforts to improve social outcomes for the disadvantaged are largely wasted. Catherine Cox was educated at William and Mary, Oxford University, and Yale University, where she received a Ph.D. She taught at Rutgers University for years, and co authored this book (Apollo) with her husband, Charles Murray. The story of the Apollo space program from the perspective of the men and women behind the scenes who accomplished the extraordinary feat of landing a man on the moon in less than ten years. Apollo is the behind-the-scenes story of an epic achievement. Based on exhaustive research that included many exclusive interviews, Apollo tells how America went from a standing start to a landing on the moon at a speed that now seems impossible. It describes the unprecedented engineering challenges that had to be overcome to create the mammoth Saturn V and the facilities to launch it. It takes you onto the gantries at Cape Canaveral and behind the consoles of Houston's Mission Control as it relives the tragedy of the fire on Apollo 1, the first descent to the lunar surface, and the rescue of Apollo 13. It is a book for those who were part of Apollo and want to recapture the experience and for those of a new generation who want to know how it was done. It is an opinion shared by many Apollo veterans. Derived from a Kirkus review: Just in time for the 20th anniversary of the Apollo II moon landing, Charles Murray and his wife, Catherine Bly Cox, have produced a fast-paced and perceptive look at the people behind one of the most daunting technological feats of the 20th century. Though space travel had long been the dream of physicists the world over, it was not until fortuitous political forces converged (i.e., America's need for distraction from the launching of Sputnik) that the dream became a realistic possibility. When President Kennedy announced in 1961 that America would beat Russia to the moon, America's space program switched from neutral to fifth gear, sweeping up many of the world's most brilliant minds in its path. Murray and Cox detail the evolution of this gargantuan effort through the eyes of the engineers who designed and operated the program's equipment with computers hardly more powerful than today's IBM PCs. Harrowing descriptions of life-or-death crises in space, solved by two dozen engineers frantically scribbling equations in a back room, keep readers on the edge of their seats, as does the recollection of the Apollo 13 disaster and the triumphant account of humanity's first steps on the moon. Moreover, the authors excel in emphasizing the necessity of individual dedication and selflessness for social achievement--so much so that when an engineer leaving ground control in 1969 notices for the first time the existence of long-haired student demonstrators, we understand perfectly how he came to miss out on the contemporary world for the sake of a future in space. An inspiring and informative chronicle.

Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Acceptable. Dust Jacket NOT present. CD WILL BE MISSING. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. A beautiful, clean, crisp five volume leather bound hardcover in fine condition. Photos available upon request. We are a brick-and-mortar store and sell our own inventory.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 5 volume set. Bound in full leather. Stamped with 22kt gold gilt design on cover front, back and spine. All edges gold. Silk moire fabric end papers. Satin ribbon place holder. Good bindings and covers. Light edge wear. Some scratch marks to edge gilt. Clean, unmarked pages. For more than 30 years, the Easton Press has been the standard for finely bound, profusely gilt classic leather bindings. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.

Full-Leather. Condition: Near Fine. (N/A) (illustrator). Each volume features a precious collection of phots in black & white. Uniform ocean blue leather hardcover with cover design. Bound in premium full leathers, hubbed spine, distinctive cover design, beautiful illustrations, permanent satin ribbon page marker, gilded page edges, moire endsheets, thread-sewn pages for durability and strength. List of titles: 1. Apollo: The Race to the Moon, by Charles Murray & Catherine Bly Cox. 2. First on the Moon: A Voyage with Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, & Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. 3. This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age, by William E Burrows. 4. The Right Stuff, by Tom Wolff. 5. A Man on the Moon: The Voyage of the Apollo Astronauts, by Andrew Chaikin.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Very Good+ Condition. Bound in teal leather with gilt titling and intricate decorations. Front fore edge board has a small spot of white paint. Text block edges gilt in excellent condition, with a few small defects (see picture). One page has a small crease from a spot were the paper was turned down. Tan silk moire end papers with a gold ribbon marker bound in. Part of Easton Press' Collector's Edition; tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 423 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Easton Press 1999. Octavo. Leather bound Collector's edition with gilt edges is like new.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 5-volume set. Uniformly bound in full leather with gilt decorations. Covers show minor wear and rubbing, some rubbing to the gilt edges, pages clean.

Condition: All volumes fine. Collector's edition. THE VOICES OF THE SPACE RACE A handsome five-volume leather-bound series from Easton Press, The Race to Space gathers defining narratives of the early American space program, anchored by Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff. Blending journalism, memoir, and historical reflection, the series chronicles the Mercury pioneers and the cultural drama of the Space Race. Full teal leather, decoratively gilt, aeg.

Full Leather. Condition: Fine. Five volume set. 24 x 16 cm. Octavo. 670pp, 506pp, 434pp, 436pp, 723pp. Uniformly bound into full teal leather with gilt design, lettering, and foredges. 4 raised bands to spines, moire endpapers, silk ribbon. Illustrated with photographs. Nice set in fine condition.

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