Shklovsky Iosif (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Thus. Crisp, bright, clean pages; no owners' marks; square, secure binding, hard cover only somewhat softened and dust-stained at spine ends; dust jacket is unclipped and shows only some crimping at spine ends, otherwise well-kept. 268pp. incl. index.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. tiny sig. of prev. owner on f.e.p.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 184 pages. Illustrated. Grigori Litinsky "Elephants, Rabbits And Writers" / Konstantin Raspevin "Swing-Wing Airctaft" / Armen Zurabov "A Circus Number" / Gennady Zhukov "Space And Law" / Professor Iosif Shklovsky "Did An Exploding Star Kill The Dinosaurs?" / Mikhail Tsentsiper "Hospital Of The Future" (SL#125/2).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Shklovsky, Iosif. Five billion vodka bottles to the moon : tales of a Soviet scientist / translated and adapted by Mary Fleming Zirin and Harold Zirin ; introduction by Herbert Fiedman. First edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991. Hardback, VG, in price- clipped dustjacket with minor shelfwear, small nick to reverse, and glue remains of an old label to front; rear cover flap a bit flabby where it has been used as a bookmark. Beige boards, green cloth spine with gilt lettering. Binding strong. 268pp., b/w plates and illustrations. Contents clean and bright. Loosely inserted printout of an email from Melvyn Bragg from 2005. Iosif Samuilovich Shklovsky (1 July 1916 3 March 1985) was a Soviet astronomer and astrophysicist. He is remembered for work in theoretical astrophysics and other topics, as well as for his 1962 book on extraterrestrial life, the revised and expanded version of which was co-authored by American astronomer Carl Sagan in 1966 as Intelligent Life in the Universe. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing. …

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

New York 1991, 268 pp., ill., dust jacket b500.