Survey Moon by Patrick Moore (10 results)

Unknown. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Or.bds. Dustjacket. (covered in clear contact) 333pp. b/w plates. Good copy. 1st ed.

Condition: Fair. 1963. First Edition. 332 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Black and white illustrations and photographic plates throughout. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Severe cracking to hinges causing boards to be loose. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Tape marking to both boards. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with chips and creasing. Water staining to rear panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: C. 1st. Dust jacket contains moderate shelf wear, minor tears and large stain on back on dust jacket. Cover of book also contains minor shelf wear, spine text block shows stain and top of text block also contains stain. Pages and binding in very good condition.

Condition: Fair. 1963. First Edition. 333 pages. Illustrated jacket (priced 25s net) over blue cloth with silver titles to spine. Includes B&W photographic plates and in-text illustrations. All plates present. Maps of the lunar surface have been annotated by a previous owner with approximate location of several lunar landings. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Slight gutter cracking. Binding is firm. Front endpaper has been removed. Endpapers have strips of foxing caused by jacket. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Slight liquid stains and sunning to lower sections of boards and spine. Boards are slightly bowed. Book has a moderate forward lean. Silver titles are bright. Unclipped jacket has some edgewear with chips, tears and creasing. Small areas of loss to spine ends. Jacket is rather rubbed and tanned overall. Slight water staining to panels, spine. Mild foxing.

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 332 pages, [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. Subjects; Moon. Illustrated. Astronomy. Science. Television presenter book. Cat Welfare Advocate. Astronomer. Galaxy. Planets. Solar systems. Rare editions. 1 Kg.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. None (illustrator). First edition. A bright copy of this amateur astronomer's guide to the moon by Patrick Moore, enriched with black and white plates. First edition, first impression of this work. Complete with its dust wrapper, price clipped, and sixteen full page plates in black and white.Featuring lunar photographic plates by M. Matsui, Kwasan Observatory in Japan, which were produced years before the 1969 first moon landing.An amateur guide to the Moon and the progress of astronauts towards it. Written by Sir Patrick Moore, English amateur astronomer and writer. He also served as president of the British Astronomical Association. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely. Dust wrapper price clipped and very smart with minor shelf wear only. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Fine. book.

8vo., First Edition, with plates and diagrams in the text; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper laminated to book. WITH T.PC.s MOUNTED ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. LOOSELY INSERTED IS A FINE COPY OF THE OFFICIAL FIRST DAY COVER FROM THE OLD ROYAL OBSERVATORY, GREENWICH, PUBLISHED ON 18 FEBRUARY 1986 AND SIGNED BY MOORE TO COMMEMORATE THE RETURN OF HALLEYS COMET. The postcard is printed for Moore's long-running (1957-2013) BBC TV series 'The Sky at Night'. THE ORIGINAL EDITION OF THIS EARLY WORK BY MOORE IS SCARCE.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. W.W. Norton, New York. 1967. 160 pages including index. First edition, first printing with full numberline including one. Book is tight. Binding and hinges are strong and sound. Black cloth is bright and clean; four sharp corners. Endpapers show a couple of small faint discolorations. Previous owner's name written on upper corner of FFEP. Page edges show faint foxing. Original DJ with $5.95 price intact on flap. DJ shows light soiling on rear, and faint wrinkle on upper rear edge. A stand alone volume from the Amateur Astronomer's Library Series. VG+/VG+.

A first edition, first printing published by Eyre and Spottiswoode in 1963. A near fine book in a very good unclipped wrapper with a little rubbing and creasing and a small closed tear to the head of the spine. Small repair internally.