Description

Hardcover, Collector’s Lifetime edition bound in genuine light brown leather lettered and decorated in gold. All edges gilt. 473 pages. Contains Appendix Tables, Glossary, Bibliography, Telescope Information and Index. Bound-in silk ribbon marker, smyth sewn binding and archival quality paper mark this as quality Eastern Press book. Illustrated with monthly sky maps and atlas charts by Wil Tirion. Fiftieth Anniversary edition, first printing thus, reprinted from the first edition published a year earlier by Houghton Mifflin. Special blank, unused Easton Press book-plate, especially produced for this edition, tipped in loose. No previous ownership marks. Corners sharp, gilt bright and covers tight and sound, A clean, fresh, unread and like new copy. Fine.