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Hardcover, octavo volume bound in full brown gilt stamped decorative leather. 260 pages. Notes, Index. Translated from the Italian, with additional notes and an appendix, by Stillman Drake. Foreword by Professor Giorgio de Santillana. A special foreword written expressly for the East Press ‘Library of Great Lives’ edition of Galileo Galilei by Ray Bradbury. Small collector’s slip laid-in. A quality Easton Press production with all the refinements that go to make this a truly fine binding: silk moire end-papers and bound in ribbon marker, all edges gilt, raised spine, 22kt gold stamping, smyth-sewn binding and full genuine leather. A title in the ‘Library of Great Lives” series. No previous ownership marks. A clean, tight, fresh and unmarked copy. Fine.