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Condición: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

First edition (not stated). xii, 388 pages. Hardcover; H 23.5cm x L 15.75cm. Brown dust jacket heavily rubbed, spine panel faded, spine and flap ends worn, tear at top of front joint. Green cloth, light bumping at spine ends. Ownership inscription upon front pastedown hidden underneath dj front flap. Color frontispiece; bibliography; appendix; index. A very good+ copy in a good+ dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good EX-LIBRARY copy. No jacket. First Edition. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey:: Prentice - Hall, Inc., 1962. Inner hinges are perfect. Stamped "WITHDRAWN" on the endpapers. Text pages are crisp and unmarked. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrated with photographs and artist renderings of future spaceships, space wheels, plans for experimental space station living quarters, etc. Includes "Man in Space," a handsome full-color painting by Paul Rossi, that features two astronauts in spacesuits exploring barren, rocky terrain while a multistage rocket and giant planet loom in the background. Although some of the illustrations have a sci-fi look to them, the technical content of the book was state-of-the-art for that time. The author was a pathologist, Clinical Professor of pathology at USC, and consultant to NASA. Included are chapters on: the pressure environment of space flight; the temperature environment; radiation; acceleration and deceleration; weightlessness; noise and vibration; metabolism; toxicology; psychology; etc. There is a detailed bibliography after each chapter. Bound in the original green cloth. From the preface: "The book. focuses on the physiopathologic importance of space ecology. It is written for the aerospace engineer. and for the busy physician. It attempts to give a comprehensible account of the major physiological and physical factors which underlie and direct the development of our efforts to launch man into the Space Age.". First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good EX-LIBRARY copy./No jacket. Illus. by Rossi, Paul . 8vo. xi, 388pp. Rossi, Paul (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: UsedGood. Hardcover; light fading, light shelf wear to exterior; bumps to the upper c orners; otherwise in very good condition with clean text and tight binding. Dust jacket shows fading, scuffing, and small edge tears.

Original Cloth. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good+. First Edition. The stresses of man`s new environment -- space -- and how he responds to them. The basic principles of the effects of space flight together in one volume. 388 pp. White endpapers, with previous owner`s name on front paste-down endpapers. Green cloth with white and black titles. Head and tail of spine lightly worn. Brown DJ with white titles. Faded spine, light wear along the edges, small stains. VG+/VG+. Book.…