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Soft Cover. Condición: VG. Reprint. First thus. Small curl/creasing at corners and light soil to outer edges. Wraps have edge/rub wear and light corner creasing. Actual book for sale pictured. 13.1 x 20 x .9cm, wt250g Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. By Author (ilustrador).

Condición: Very good. The format is approximately 8 inches by 1 inches. This is a single sheet, with imagery on side and text on the other, in a plastic sleeve. On the front side is a large color composite photograph of the ringed planet Saturn and Earth to the same scale. This photo of Saturn was taken with a telescope and represents one of the best images ever taken from the planet. The text discussed the difficulties of photographing Saturn from Earth and looked forward to images from spacecraft expected from Voyager 1 in 1980 and Voyager 2 in 1981. The observation and exploration of Saturn can be divided into three phases: (1) pre-modern observations with the naked eye, (2) telescopic observations from Earth beginning in the 17th century, and (3) visitation by space probes, in orbit or on flyby. In the 21st century, telescopic observations continue from Earth (including Earth-orbiting observatories like the Hubble Space Telescope) and from the Cassini orbiter. Pioneer 11 made the first flyby of Saturn in September 1979, when it passed within 12,000 miles of the planet's cloud tops. Images were taken of the planet and a few of its moons, although their resolution was too low to discern surface detail. The spacecraft also studied Saturn's rings, revealing the thin F-ring and the fact that dark gaps in the rings are bright when viewed at a high phase angle (towards the Sun), meaning that they contain fine light-scattering material. In addition, Pioneer 11 measured the temperature of Titan. In November 1980, the Voyager 1 probe visited the Saturn system. It sent back the first high-resolution images of the planet, its rings and satellites. Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter. It is a gas giant with an average radius of about nine-and-a-half times that of Earth. It has only one-eighth the average density of Earth, but is over 95 times more massive. Even though Saturn is nearly the size of Jupiter, Saturn has less than one-third of Jupiter's mass. Saturn orbits the Sun at a distance of 9.59 AU with an orbital period of 29.45 years. Saturn's interior is thought to be composed of a rocky core, surrounded by a deep layer of metallic hydrogen, an intermediate layer of liquid hydrogen and liquid helium, and finally, a gaseous outer layer. Saturn has a pale yellow hue due to ammonia crystals in its upper atmosphere. An electrical current within the metallic hydrogen layer is thought to give rise to Saturn's planetary magnetic field, which is weaker than Earth's, but which has a magnetic moment 580 times that of Earth due to Saturn's larger size. Saturn's magnetic field strength is around one-twentieth of Jupiter's. The outer atmosphere is generally bland and lacking in contrast, although long-lived features can appear. Wind speeds on Saturn can reach 1,100 miles per hour. The planet has a bright and extensive ring system composed mainly of ice particles, with a smaller amount of rocky debris and dust. At least 146 moons are known to orbit the planet, of which 63 are officially named; this does not include the hundreds of moonlets in its rings. Titan, Saturn's largest moon and the second largest in the Solar System, is larger (while less massive) than the planet Mercury and is the only moon in the Solar System to have a substantial atmosphere. Single sheet, printed on both sides Presumed First Edition, First printing. This is one of multiple originals issued.…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1941 edition with red wrappers SIGNED by the members of the band and dated 1942. Slim folios, 32pp in red pictorial wrappers, and 48pp in green pictorial wrappers, both staple-bound (moderate wear, creases and small chips to edges, moderate soiling, else about very good). [With]: Approx 8 x 10 inch publicity photograph, signed by Jimmie Pierson.…

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Condición: Very Good. Original edition. Black-and-white photo of the five sisters, dressed in white blouses, black coats and skirts, and string ties. Caption and names are printed by hand in red. 3,75" x 7" The five Eppley Sisters traveled the world as a gospel quintet for about 30 years, circa 1945 to 1975.…

Photograph, 4 ½ x 7 ½ inches (larger mount, 6 ¾ x 8 5/8 inches), picturing four well-dressed card players at a parlor table, three women and an older man, one of the women playing a card, as the others wait a turn. Mary Stuart Williams Welch (1862-1940), a Connecticut resident was perhaps wintering in Thomasville. Very good.…

Photograph. Condición: Good. Contemporary print. Sheet is approximately 8 inches by 10.5 inches. Black and white photographic image is approximately 9 inches by 6.5 inches. This is printed on photographic paper stock. The image is of a rocket next to a gantry taken at night. There are many people visible at ground level. This may be a photgraph of the Mercury Redstone rocket. It is contemporary with Project Mercury. Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into Earth orbit and return him safely, ideally before the Soviet Union. Taken over from the US Air Force by the newly created civilian space agency NASA, it conducted twenty uncrewed developmental flights (some using animals), and six successful flights by astronauts. The program took its name from Roman mythology. The astronauts were collectively known as the "Mercury Seven", and each spacecraft was given a name ending with a "7" by its pilot. The Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle was the first crewed launch vehicle in the United States space program. The Mercury-Redstone provided NASA with an opportunity understand performance aspects of the Mercury spacecraft, the effect of a weightless environment on astronauts, and launch and recovery operations at Kennedy Space Center. Development of the Redstone missile began directly after the transfer of the Fort Bliss rocket team to Huntsville, Alabama in 1950. The fuselage of the Redstone was developed in-house at the Army's Guided Missile Development Division with Chrysler serving as prime contractor. Peenemunde veteran William A. Mrazek was placed in charge of developing the structure that consisted of pressurized aluminum propellant tanks. The tail unit consisted of a riveted aluminum structure with four stabilizing fins and air rudders with carbon jet vanes extending into the exhaust stream. The initial flight test of the Redstone occurred on August 20, 1953 at Cape Canaveral. Between August 1953 and November 1958, 37 Redstone missiles were fired altogether with only 13 experiencing any sort of malfunction. On October 7, 1958, NASA formally organized Project Mercury to place a manned space capsule in orbital flight around the Earth, investigate man's reaction to this new environment, and recover the capsule and the pilot safely. The Army agreed to provide ten Redstone and three Jupiter vehicles for NASA's manned space program. Funding for the eight Redstone boosters was provided to the Army Ordnance Missile Command at the Arsenal in January 1959. "Man-rating" for human spaceflight what was previously a ballistic missile was not an easy project. Requirements for the project included launching a two-ton payload to an apogee of 100 nautical miles. The vehicle also had to meet important criteria of safety during launch, adequate human factors consideration, and necessary performance margins. A key development decision involved using the Jupiter C variation of the Redstone for the project. The Jupiter C design included a propellant tank six feet longer than the Redstone, a lighter overall structure, and improved performance capable of 78,000 pounds of thrust. The elongated tanks of the Jupiter C provided the vehicle with an engine burn time of 143.5 seconds, a twenty seconds increase over the Redstone. On July 1, 1960, a core group from the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) transferred from the Army to NASA, formally creating the Marshall Space Flight Center. With this transfer came overall responsibility for the Mercury-Redstone launch vehicles. By October of that year, a status report on Marshall's involvement in Mercury noted that the first two Mercury-Redstones had been assembled by the Marshall Center with many of the components fabricated at Marshall. The Chrysler Corporation had assembled an additional six launch vehicles. The first four of the eight Mercury-Redstone vehicles had been static fired, and the first Mercury-Redstone was on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral after a capsule-booster compatibility checkout in Huntsville.…

Photograph. Condición: Good. Contemporary print. Sheet is approximately 8 inches by 10.5 inches. Black and white photographic image is approximately 9 inches by 6.5 inches. This is printed on photographic paper stock. The image is of a rocket between a gantry and another structure/tower. This may be a photograph of the Mercury Redstone or the Mercury Atlas rocket. Mercury-Atlas was a subprogram of Project Mercury that included most of the flights and tests using the Atlas LV-3B launch vehicle. The Atlas was also used for one Mercury flight under the Big Joe subprogram. The photo is contemporary with Project Mercury. Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into Earth orbit and return him safely, ideally before the Soviet Union. Taken over from the US Air Force by the newly created civilian space agency NASA, it conducted twenty uncrewed developmental flights (some using animals), and six successful flights by astronauts. The program took its name from Roman mythology. The astronauts were collectively known as the "Mercury Seven", and each spacecraft was given a name ending with a "7" by its pilot. The Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle was the first crewed launch vehicle in the United States space program. The Mercury-Redstone provided NASA with an opportunity understand performance aspects of the Mercury spacecraft, the effect of a weightless environment on astronauts, and launch and recovery operations at Kennedy Space Center. Development of the Redstone missile began directly after the transfer of the Fort Bliss rocket team to Huntsville, Alabama in 1950. The fuselage of the Redstone was developed in-house at the Army's Guided Missile Development Division with Chrysler serving as prime contractor. Peenemunde veteran William A. Mrazek was placed in charge of developing the structure that consisted of pressurized aluminum propellant tanks. The tail unit consisted of a riveted aluminum structure with four stabilizing fins and air rudders with carbon jet vanes extending into the exhaust stream. The initial flight test of the Redstone occurred on August 20, 1953 at Cape Canaveral. Between August 1953 and November 1958, 37 Redstone missiles were fired altogether with only 13 experiencing any sort of malfunction. On October 7, 1958, NASA formally organized Project Mercury to place a manned space capsule in orbital flight around the Earth, investigate man's reaction to this new environment, and recover the capsule and the pilot safely. The Army agreed to provide ten Redstone and three Jupiter vehicles for NASA's manned space program. Funding for the eight Redstone boosters was provided to the Army Ordnance Missile Command at the Arsenal in January 1959. "Man-rating" for human spaceflight what was previously a ballistic missile was not an easy project. Requirements for the project included launching a two-ton payload to an apogee of 100 nautical miles. The vehicle also had to meet important criteria of safety during launch, adequate human factors consideration, and necessary performance margins. A key development decision involved using the Jupiter C variation of the Redstone for the project. The Jupiter C design included a propellant tank six feet longer than the Redstone, a lighter overall structure, and improved performance capable of 78,000 pounds of thrust. The elongated tanks of the Jupiter C provided the vehicle with an engine burn time of 143.5 seconds, a twenty seconds increase over the Redstone. On July 1, 1960, a core group from the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) transferred from the Army to NASA, formally creating the Marshall Space Flight Center. With this transfer came overall responsibility for the Mercury-Redstone launch vehicles. By October of that year, a status report on Marshall's involvement in Mercury noted that the first two Mercury-Redstones had been assembled by the Marshall Center with many of the components fabricated at Marshall. The Chrysler Corporation had assembled an additional six launch vehicles. The first four of the eight Mercury-Redstone vehicles had been static fired, and the first Mercury-Redstone was on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral after a capsule-booster compatibility checkout in Huntsville.…

Photograph. Condición: Good. Contemporary print. Sheet is approximately 8 inches by 10.5 inches. Black and white photographic image is approximately 9 inches by 6.5 inches. This is printed on photographic paper stock. The image is of a rocket taking off at night. This may be a photograph of a sounding rocket. Rocket has two visible fins near that base of the rocket. The photo is contemporary with Project Mercury. Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into Earth orbit and return him safely, ideally before the Soviet Union. Taken over from the US Air Force by the newly created civilian space agency NASA, it conducted twenty uncrewed developmental flights (some using animals), and six successful flights by astronauts. The program took its name from Roman mythology. The astronauts were collectively known as the "Mercury Seven", and each spacecraft was given a name ending with a "7" by its pilot. The Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle was the first crewed launch vehicle in the United States space program. The Mercury-Redstone provided NASA with an opportunity understand performance aspects of the Mercury spacecraft, the effect of a weightless environment on astronauts, and launch and recovery operations at Kennedy Space Center. Development of the Redstone missile began directly after the transfer of the Fort Bliss rocket team to Huntsville, Alabama in 1950. The fuselage of the Redstone was developed in-house at the Army's Guided Missile Development Division with Chrysler serving as prime contractor. Peenemunde veteran William A. Mrazek was placed in charge of developing the structure that consisted of pressurized aluminum propellant tanks. The tail unit consisted of a riveted aluminum structure with four stabilizing fins and air rudders with carbon jet vanes extending into the exhaust stream. The initial flight test of the Redstone occurred on August 20, 1953 at Cape Canaveral. Between August 1953 and November 1958, 37 Redstone missiles were fired altogether with only 13 experiencing any sort of malfunction. On October 7, 1958, NASA formally organized Project Mercury to place a manned space capsule in orbital flight around the Earth, investigate man's reaction to this new environment, and recover the capsule and the pilot safely. The Army agreed to provide ten Redstone and three Jupiter vehicles for NASA's manned space program. Funding for the eight Redstone boosters was provided to the Army Ordnance Missile Command at the Arsenal in January 1959. "Man-rating" for human spaceflight what was previously a ballistic missile was not an easy project. Requirements for the project included launching a two-ton payload to an apogee of 100 nautical miles. The vehicle also had to meet important criteria of safety during launch, adequate human factors consideration, and necessary performance margins. A key development decision involved using the Jupiter C variation of the Redstone for the project. The Jupiter C design included a propellant tank six feet longer than the Redstone, a lighter overall structure, and improved performance capable of 78,000 pounds of thrust. The elongated tanks of the Jupiter C provided the vehicle with an engine burn time of 143.5 seconds, a twenty seconds increase over the Redstone. On July 1, 1960, a core group from the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) transferred from the Army to NASA, formally creating the Marshall Space Flight Center. With this transfer came overall responsibility for the Mercury-Redstone launch vehicles. By October of that year, a status report on Marshall's involvement in Mercury noted that the first two Mercury-Redstones had been assembled by the Marshall Center with many of the components fabricated at Marshall. The Chrysler Corporation had assembled an additional six launch vehicles. The first four of the eight Mercury-Redstone vehicles had been static fired, and the first Mercury-Redstone was on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral after a capsule-booster compatibility checkout in Huntsville.…

Photograph. Condición: Good. Contemporary print. Sheet is approximately 8 inches by 10.5 inches. Black and white photographic image is approximately 9 inches by 6.5 inches. This is printed on photographic paper stock. The image is of a rocket in front of a gantry taken at night. There is a group of people gathered at the base of the rocket. This may be a photograph of the Mercury Redstone or the Mercury Atlas rocket. Mercury-Atlas was a subprogram of Project Mercury that included most of the flights and tests using the Atlas LV-3B launch vehicle. The Atlas was also used for one Mercury flight under the Big Joe subprogram. The photo is contemporary with Project Mercury. Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into Earth orbit and return him safely, ideally before the Soviet Union. Taken over from the US Air Force by the newly created civilian space agency NASA, it conducted twenty uncrewed developmental flights (some using animals), and six successful flights by astronauts. The program took its name from Roman mythology. The astronauts were collectively known as the "Mercury Seven", and each spacecraft was given a name ending with a "7" by its pilot. The Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle was the first crewed launch vehicle in the United States space program. The Mercury-Redstone provided NASA with an opportunity understand performance aspects of the Mercury spacecraft, the effect of a weightless environment on astronauts, and launch and recovery operations at Kennedy Space Center. Development of the Redstone missile began directly after the transfer of the Fort Bliss rocket team to Huntsville, Alabama in 1950. The fuselage of the Redstone was developed in-house at the Army's Guided Missile Development Division with Chrysler serving as prime contractor. Peenemunde veteran William A. Mrazek was placed in charge of developing the structure that consisted of pressurized aluminum propellant tanks. The tail unit consisted of a riveted aluminum structure with four stabilizing fins and air rudders with carbon jet vanes extending into the exhaust stream. The initial flight test of the Redstone occurred on August 20, 1953 at Cape Canaveral. Between August 1953 and November 1958, 37 Redstone missiles were fired altogether with only 13 experiencing any sort of malfunction. On October 7, 1958, NASA formally organized Project Mercury to place a manned space capsule in orbital flight around the Earth, investigate man's reaction to this new environment, and recover the capsule and the pilot safely. The Army agreed to provide ten Redstone and three Jupiter vehicles for NASA's manned space program. Funding for the eight Redstone boosters was provided to the Army Ordnance Missile Command at the Arsenal in January 1959. "Man-rating" for human spaceflight what was previously a ballistic missile was not an easy project. Requirements for the project included launching a two-ton payload to an apogee of 100 nautical miles. The vehicle also had to meet important criteria of safety during launch, adequate human factors consideration, and necessary performance margins. A key development decision involved using the Jupiter C variation of the Redstone for the project. The Jupiter C design included a propellant tank six feet longer than the Redstone, a lighter overall structure, and improved performance capable of 78,000 pounds of thrust. The elongated tanks of the Jupiter C provided the vehicle with an engine burn time of 143.5 seconds, a twenty seconds increase over the Redstone. On July 1, 1960, a core group from the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) transferred from the Army to NASA, formally creating the Marshall Space Flight Center. With this transfer came overall responsibility for the Mercury-Redstone launch vehicles. By October of that year, a status report on Marshall's involvement in Mercury noted that the first two Mercury-Redstones had been assembled by the Marshall Center with many of the components fabricated at Marshall. The Chrysler Corporation had assembled an additional six launch vehicles. The first four of the eight Mercury-Redstone vehicles had been static fired, and the first Mercury-Redstone was on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral after a capsule-booster compatibility checkout in Huntsville.…

Photograph. Condición: Good. Contemporary print. Sheet is approximately 8 inches by 10.5 inches. Black and white photographic image is approximately 9 inches by 6.5 inches. This is printed on photographic paper stock. The image is of a rocket lifting off next to a gantry taken at night. This may be a photograph of the Mercury Redstone rocket. It is contemporary with Project Mercury. Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into Earth orbit and return him safely, ideally before the Soviet Union. Taken over from the US Air Force by the newly created civilian space agency NASA, it conducted twenty uncrewed developmental flights (some using animals), and six successful flights by astronauts. The program took its name from Roman mythology. The astronauts were collectively known as the "Mercury Seven", and each spacecraft was given a name ending with a "7" by its pilot. The Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle was the first crewed launch vehicle in the United States space program. The Mercury-Redstone provided NASA with an opportunity understand performance aspects of the Mercury spacecraft, the effect of a weightless environment on astronauts, and launch and recovery operations at Kennedy Space Center. Development of the Redstone missile began directly after the transfer of the Fort Bliss rocket team to Huntsville, Alabama in 1950. The fuselage of the Redstone was developed in-house at the Army's Guided Missile Development Division with Chrysler serving as prime contractor. Peenemunde veteran William A. Mrazek was placed in charge of developing the structure that consisted of pressurized aluminum propellant tanks. The tail unit consisted of a riveted aluminum structure with four stabilizing fins and air rudders with carbon jet vanes extending into the exhaust stream. The initial flight test of the Redstone occurred on August 20, 1953 at Cape Canaveral. Between August 1953 and November 1958, 37 Redstone missiles were fired altogether with only 13 experiencing any sort of malfunction. On October 7, 1958, NASA formally organized Project Mercury to place a manned space capsule in orbital flight around the Earth, investigate man's reaction to this new environment, and recover the capsule and the pilot safely. The Army agreed to provide ten Redstone and three Jupiter vehicles for NASA's manned space program. Funding for the eight Redstone boosters was provided to the Army Ordnance Missile Command at the Arsenal in January 1959. "Man-rating" for human spaceflight what was previously a ballistic missile was not an easy project. Requirements for the project included launching a two-ton payload to an apogee of 100 nautical miles. The vehicle also had to meet important criteria of safety during launch, adequate human factors consideration, and necessary performance margins. A key development decision involved using the Jupiter C variation of the Redstone for the project. The Jupiter C design included a propellant tank six feet longer than the Redstone, a lighter overall structure, and improved performance capable of 78,000 pounds of thrust. The elongated tanks of the Jupiter C provided the vehicle with an engine burn time of 143.5 seconds, a twenty seconds increase over the Redstone. On July 1, 1960, a core group from the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) transferred from the Army to NASA, formally creating the Marshall Space Flight Center. With this transfer came overall responsibility for the Mercury-Redstone launch vehicles. By October of that year, a status report on Marshall's involvement in Mercury noted that the first two Mercury-Redstones had been assembled by the Marshall Center with many of the components fabricated at Marshall. The Chrysler Corporation had assembled an additional six launch vehicles. The first four of the eight Mercury-Redstone vehicles had been static fired, and the first Mercury-Redstone was on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral after a capsule-booster compatibility checkout in Huntsville.…

Condición: Fine. Number of pages: 133 pages Size: A5 small.

7-1/2 x 5-3/4 inches. Fine. Caption and "please credit" stamps on verso.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 298 pages. Published in 2015. Retrospective collection of essays. One of Freeman Dyson's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only and on the occasion of Freeman Dyson's 90th Birthday. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Freeman Dyson's "Dreams of Earth And Sky". Engaging, visionary essays that amount to a sequel of "The Scientist As Rebel" (2006). They provide immense pleasure and scientific literacy to the serious reader, who really needs to be more knowledgeable about science because science is too important to be left to the scientists. The author of the standard textbook on quantum mechanics, Freeman Dyson stands apart from the entire scientific establishment because he is also a public intellectual engaged in the most urgent issues of our time: Poverty, social inequality, economic growth, and most controversial of all, climate change. He is the rarest scientist of all: A ferocious critic of science-become-ideology, become orthodoxy that can never ever be questioned, become politicized, science as the new religion, thereby ceasing to be science at all. Dyson did not just undermine the hysteria about global warming that climate scientists waged in a very public manner. Even if he will not openly take credit for it, Dyson actually won the "global warming" debate: It is easy to forget how climate scientists suddenly stopped calling it "global warming" and switched to "climate change" because Dyson, a climate skeptic, not a denier, demolished their model-based predictions. His point is perfectly simple: Climate change is real, and has been going on for a very long time. The continuing reliance of China, India, and for that matter, the United States on fossil fuels is unavoidable in the finite - but not indefinite - interim because for Dyson, it is far more important to bring ALL of the world's peoples out of poverty. This is common sense except for ideologues bent on imposing their will on reality. One will not do justice to his book if one omits Dyson's "joyful dreaming" about The Future, when he predicts that by the end of the 21st century, human beings will be able to travel to outer space at dirt-cheap prices. The irrepressible Freeman Dyson died on February 28, 2020 at the age of 96. The sheer velocity of his genius-mind will be missed. An absolute "must-have" title for Freeman Dyson collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Freeman Dyson. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Laid-in is a lovely 4 X 6 Souvenir Color Photograph of Freeman Dyson during the signing event. This title is a great book. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the greatest scientist/thinkers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER FREEMAN DYSON TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 1590178548. Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 216 pages. Published in 1997. Retrospective collection of essays. The definitive transcript of Freeman Dyson's epochal Jerusalem/Harvard Lectures. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only by a University Press. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Freeman Dyson's "Imagined Worlds: The Jerusalem Harvard Lectures". By critical consensus, his most visionary book. It is tempered, as always - and as very rarely found in other scientists, technocrats, and academics - by his profound humanism. Few scientists have railed vehemently against science worship or "scientism", the reigning ideology of both academe and big business, as Freeman Dyson, and at the same time, sought to harness science and technology to positive, imagined ends that surpass in their breathtaking vision everything science fiction has imagined thus far. "Freeman Dyson has been helping us see ourselves and our world from a scientist's point-of-view. He brings this perspective to a speculative future to show us where science and technology may be taking us. Whether looking at Gaia Theory or the future of nuclear weapons, Dyson is concerned with how we might mitigate the evil consequences of technology and enhance the good instead. At the heart of it all is the belief that progress in science will bring enormous confusion and misery to Mankind unless it is accompanied by progress in ethics" (Publisher's blurb). "With a rare breadth of literary and historical knowledge, and with a wonderful lucidity of style, Dyson converts science from the intellectual property of specialists into a meaningful concern for everyone with a stake in our cultural future" (Bryce Christensen). The preliminary and self-proclaimed corporate philosophy of Google was "Do No Evil". Whether technocrats Larry Page and Sergey Brin have remained true or not to their credo - they have not -, there is no question that their credo is adopted entirely from Dyson's ethical perspective, not from their Stanford science-cum-technology bias. The irrepressible Freeman Dyson died on February 28, 2020 at the age of 96. The sheer velocity of his genius-mind will be missed. An absolute "must-have" title for Freeman Dyson collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Freeman Dyson. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. He signed on top of the page, making it even more prominent. Laid-in is a lovely 4 X 6 Souvenir Color Photograph of Freeman Dyson during the signing event. This title is a great book. This is one of very few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are in multiple subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the greatest scientist/thinkers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER FREEMAN DYSON TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0674539087. Signed by Author.…

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Condición: Good. Original color photograph. 12.5 x 12.7cm.July 7, 1979, was the day Björn Borg secured his fourth consecutive Wimbledon singles title by defeating Roscoe Tanner. Following the tournament victory, celebrations spilled over into London's elite social and club scene?including high-profile gatherings at venues like the Victoria Sporting Club managed by Victor Lownes.The gathering brought together a remarkable mix of international icons who happened to be in London at the time:? Björn Borg, fresh off his historic Wimbledon triumph.? Muhammad Ali, a frequent visitor to London and global sports royalty.? Charlton Heston and Andy Williams, representing American Hollywood and entertainment royalty visiting or working in the UK.These post-Wimbledon celebrations at the club served as high-society crossovers where legendary figures from sports, film, and music gathered for banquets and celebratory press photos.The Victoria Sporting Club (often referred to simply as the Victoria Club) in London?along with its sister operations managed by Playboy UK and executive Victor Lownes?functioned as a premier international hub for high-end entertainment, celebrity hosting, and VIP events during the 1970s.Events involving figures like Muhammad Ali, Bjorn Borg, Andy Williams and Charlton Heston typically revolved around a few core activities.Provenance: John Wooloughan . He worked as a casino host at the Playboy Club in London during that era, a position that put him right in the middle of the high-roller club scene managed alongside venues like the Victoria Sporting Club under Victor Lownes. In that role, Wooloughan frequently interacted with and met many of the prominent American stars and international figures who visited London, including Muhammad Ali, Frank Sinatra, and various Hollywood actors and musicians.…

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Condición: GOOD. General wear, heavy soiling on rear side, chipped corner MOUNTED ON HEAVY STOCK AS A CABINET CARD DATE PUBLISHED: 1920 CIRCA EDITION: 1.

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Photograph. Condición: Good. Contemporary print. Sheet is approximately 8 inches by 10.5 inches. Black and white photographic image is approximately 9 inches by 6.5 inches. This is printed on photographic paper stock. The image is of a Pilot/Astronaut in a flight suit/spacesuit, seated on a chair. Based on comparison with NASA early photographs of the Mercury 7 Astronauts, this appears to be an astronaut in their spacesuit. It may be Gordon Cooper in the picture. The photo is contemporary with Project Mercury. Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into Earth orbit and return him safely, ideally before the Soviet Union. Taken over from the US Air Force by the newly created civilian space agency NASA, it conducted twenty uncrewed developmental flights (some using animals), and six successful flights by astronauts. The program took its name from Roman mythology. The astronauts were collectively known as the "Mercury Seven", and each spacecraft was given a name ending with a "7" by its pilot. On April 9, 1959, NASA's first administrator, Dr. Keith Glennan, announced the names of the agency's first group of astronauts at a news conference in Washington, D.C. Now known as the "Original Seven," they included three Naval aviators, M. Scott Carpenter, Walter M. Schirra Jr., and Alan B. Shepard Jr.; three Air Force pilots, L. Gordon Cooper Jr., Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom, and Donald K. (Deke) Slayton; along with Marine Corps aviator John H. Glenn Jr. This group photo of the original Mercury astronauts was taken in June 1963 at the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC), now Johnson Space Center, in Houston, Texas. The astronauts are, left-to-right: Cooper, Schirra, Shepard, Grissom, Glenn, Slayton and Carpenter. Project Mercury became NASA's first major undertaking. The objectives of the program were to place a human-rated spacecraft into orbit around Earth, observe the astronaut's performance in such conditions and safely recover the astronaut and the spacecraft. The Mercury flights proved that humans could live and work in space, and paved the way for the Gemini and Apollo programs as well as for all further human spaceflight. …

Condición: Good. 8x10 Black & White Glossy Photograph. Very Good. Stamped Hibernian Films, Ltd. on verso.

Condición: Good. 8x10 Black & White Glossy Photograph. Very Good. Description on verso includes original title, Fearful Decision.

L13. 2011. true first edition, limited to 113 copies, this one being unnumbered and unsigned but still has the photo insert and erratum slip. Yellow limp boards, designed to resemble a Gollancz proof copy, covers slightly soiled. Pink pages. A very clean and fresh copy.

Southern Tibet. Discoveries in former times compared with my own researches in 1906-1908. Vol 1 (apart): Lake Manasarovar and the sources of the great Indian Rivers. From the remotest antiquity to the end of the eighteenth century. With - here all in b/w, no colour - 53 maps, one photograph. Fotocopied fine book 22x30cm, red hardcover cloth, printed gilt title on spine. In perfect condition, even so only as fotocopied work. xxxii, 293 S. Sven Hedin, regarded as the greatest Asian explorer of his time. …

From the Bender studio in New York. Ca. 253 x 203 mm. Risë Stevens was an "American mezzo-soprano of Norwegian origin. She sang with the New York Opera-Comique before becoming a pupil of Anna Schoen-René. Approached by the Metropolitan, she declined and sailed for Europe to study with Marie Gutheil-Schoder. She then made her formal operatic début in Prague in 1936 as Thomas' Mignon; she also sang with the Vienna Staatsoper and in Buenos Aires. Returning to the USA, she made her début with the Metropolitan on tour in Philadelphia in 1938 as Octavian, appearing a month later in New York as Mignon. She remained with the company until 1961 but also sang with other companies (including Glyndebourne in 1939 and, as Cherubino, 1955). Her warm, lyric voice can be heard on studio and off-the-air recordings of her Cherubino, Carmen, Mignon, Delilah and Octavian." Max de Schauensee and Alan Blyth in Grove Music Online. Signed.…

From the studio of Bender in New York. Ca. 252 x 202 mm. Risë Stevens was an "American mezzo-soprano of Norwegian origin. She sang with the New York Opera-Comique before becoming a pupil of Anna Schoen-René. Approached by the Metropolitan, she declined and sailed for Europe to study with Marie Gutheil-Schoder. She then made her formal operatic début in Prague in 1936 as Thomas' Mignon; she also sang with the Vienna Staatsoper and in Buenos Aires. Returning to the USA, she made her début with the Metropolitan on tour in Philadelphia in 1938 as Octavian, appearing a month later in New York as Mignon. She remained with the company until 1961 but also sang with other companies (including Glyndebourne in 1939 and, as Cherubino, 1955). Her warm, lyric voice can be heard on studio and off-the-air recordings of her Cherubino, Carmen, Mignon, Delilah and Octavian." Max de Schauensee and Alan Blyth in Grove Music Online. Signed.…