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Cosmos
by Sagan, Carl
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Near Fine
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Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House [1980], 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 4to. [11], xii-xvi, [3], 4-365, [3] pp. Quarter black cloth over black paper boards with red and silver lettering on the spine. Price of $19.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several in-text and full-page photographs (both in color and black and white). Title pages printed in black and red. The winner of the 1981 Hugo Award for the Best Non-Fiction Book. The book's chapters correspond to the epynomous hit television show produced by Sagan. The show and this book were wildly popular, ushering in a new era of scientific communication and learning for the general public. A bookplate and a blindstamp on the free front endpaper; jacket with a bit of wear to its tips.
Synopsis
Carl Sagan was the David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences and Director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University; Distinguished Visiting Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology; and the cofounder and President of the Planetary Society, the largest space-interest group in the world. For the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, he was an adviser on the Mariner , Voyager , and Viking unmanned space missions, and he briefed astronauts for journeys to the moon. His Peabody Award-winning public television series, Cosmos , has been seen by more than 500 million people in over sixty countries, and the accompanying book spent seventy weeks on The New York Times bestseller list. The author of thirty books, Sagan was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence in 1978, and his novel Contact , is now a major motion picture. In their posthumous award to Dr. Sagan of their highest honor, the National Science Foundation declared that his research transformed planetary science ... his gifts to mankind were infinite. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Evening Star Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000013636
- Title
- Cosmos
- Author
- Sagan, Carl
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Random House [1980]
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1980
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