Published by Univ Science Books, 1997
ISBN 10: 0935702970 ISBN 13: 9780935702972
Condition: USED_GOOD. Lomberg, Jon (illustrator). Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Published by Random House, 1978
ISBN 10: 0394410475 ISBN 13: 9780394410470
Seller: HPB-Diamond, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Published by brodart 1999, 1999
Seller: ODDS & ENDS BOOKS, Sherwood Forest, CA, U.S.A.
Signed
Soft cover. Condition: USED_FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 4 1/4" x 3 1/2" white self sticking autograph card with black border plastic covered SIGNED by JON LOMBERG distinguished space artist/movie artist on CONTACT & TV series COSMOS. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Canada: Emanation Press 1st Edition, 1981
ISBN 10: 0920540104 ISBN 13: 9780920540107
Seller: John McCormick, Mississauga, ON, Canada
First Edition
Mass Market Paperback. Condition: UNSPECIFIED. Jon Lomberg (front cover) (illustrator). First Edition. ----------paperback. A 150-page first edition paperback original science fiction anthology of stories by first-time writers, probably Canadian. Spine and reading creases, edgewear, a VG to VG+ copy.
Published by A Dell Book/Published by Dell Publishing Co., Inc., New York, 1975
ISBN 10: 0440133017 ISBN 13: 9780440133018
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
Mass Market Paperback. Condition: USED_ASNEW. Jon Lomberg (Illustration on Title Page) (illustrator). 2nd Dell Printing: April 1975. 267 pp. An excellent, spotlessly clean copy! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially flawless copy with crisp pages, clean text, and very light shelf wear.
Published by brodart 1999, 1999
Seller: ODDS & ENDS BOOKS, Sherwood Forest, CA, U.S.A.
Signed
Soft cover. Condition: USED_FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 4 1/4" x 3 1/2" white self sticking autograph card with black border plastic covered SIGNED by JON LOMBERG distinguished space artist/movie artist on CONTACT & TV series COSMOS. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Quality Paperback Bookclub, New York, 1998
ISBN 10: 0965647463 ISBN 13: 9780965647465
Seller: Manning's Books & Prints, ABAA, Pacifica, CA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: USED_VERYGOOD. Jon Lomberg (illustrator). includes CD by Scientific American Library "The Planets" 196pp.
Published by Future Life Magazine, New York, 1980
Seller: W. Fraser Sandercombe, Burlington, ON, Canada
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: USED_VERYGOOD. Jon Lomberg; Robert McCall; (illustrator). First Edition. 70 pp. Very light wear. This issue contains: Star Trek - The Motion Picture by Ed Naha; Interview: Theodore Sturgeon by BJO Trimble; Space Age Games by Stephen J. Sansweet; Looking Forward to the 80s; Information for the 80s by Barbara Krasnoff, Chris Keller, Pat Glossop, Philip L. Harrison and Margaret A. Taylor; and The Black Hole by David Houston and Ed Naha; along with a portfolio of Jon Lomberg's art and another of art by Robert McCall. Size: 4to. Book.
Published by University Science Books,, Sausalito:, 1997
ISBN 10: 0935702970 ISBN 13: 9780935702972
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: USED_FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Illustrated by Jon Lomberg (illustrator). First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Published by W.W. Norton, N. Y, 1992
ISBN 10: 0393308839 ISBN 13: 9780393308839
Seller: William L. Horsnell, Aylesford, NS, Canada
Trade Paperback. Condition: USED_VERYGOOD. Lomberg, Jon (illustrator). 1st Trade Paperback.
Published by McClelland and Stewart Ltd. (M&S), 1985
Seller: Clarkean Books, Stoney Creek, ON, Canada
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: USED_ASNEW. Jon Lomberg (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition/printing thus paperback original (PBO) 1985 M&S 5837-3. As New condition - superb and collectible and unread shape - great cover art by the astronomical artist Lomberg! Masterful stories by a grand dame of SF, resident in Canada in her last years along with her generous donation of her SF collection to form (originally) The Spaced Out Library at the Toronto Library central branch.
Published by Random House, New York, 1979
Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: USED_FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Lomberg, Jon (jacket illustration); Aulicino, Robert (jacket design) (illustrator). Fine condition black cloth boards with gold spine lettering contained in a very good condition dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Carl Sagan; Author Dedication; Acknowledgments; Introduction; References; Index and About the Author. The upper jacket spine edge is moderately chipped, some light scattered jacket edge rubbing (see photographs). All pages are in fine condition and the binding is exceedingly tight and square (see photographs). " "We live in an extraordinary age," writes Carl Sagan, one of our leading astronomers. "As long as there have been human beings, we have posed deep and fundamental questions on the origins of consciousness; life on our planet; the beginnings of the Earth; the origins of the Sun; the possibility of intelligent beings somewhere up there, as well as the grandest inquiry of all, the advent, nature and ultimate destiny of the universe. For all but the last instant of human history, these issues have been the exclusive province of philosophers and poets, shamans and theologians. But today, as a result of knowledge painfully extracted from nature through generations of careful thinking, observing and experimenting, we are on the verge of glimpsing at least preliminary answers to many of them." It is with these preliminary solutions that this book is concerned. Our most eloquent spokesman for science to the layman, Dr. Sagan has the rare ability to make the reader share with him his enthusiasm and excitement over what we have found out in the past few years about "that vast universe in which we are embedded like a grain of sand in a cosmic ocean," and most particularly what we have learned about our own solar system. This is a wonderfully lucid account of recent astronomical discoveries, linked to discoveries about the human mind, which Dr. Sagan explored so dramatically in his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Dragons of Eden, and which he has used her as a touchstone against which to try age-old philosophical and theological concepts. Science, Dr. Sagan explains, is not a body of knowledge but a way of looking at the world -- a creative questioning, probing, testing of all things. Whenever we go below the surface, connect two facts, or refuse to accept blindly a piece of received information, we are practicing science. In these terms, the human affection for pseudoscience -- the pernicious belief, in the absence of good evidence, in ancient astronauts, UFO's, ESP, and so on -- becomes less and less tenable in an age that is hovering on the brink of astonishing scientific progress. Dr. Sagan examines the reasons that human beings cling so tenaciously to these notions and suggest a relationship to religious beliefs. He demolishes such borderline science in a model demonstration of the scientific method, and with equal style and vigor pays tribute to the achievements of real science. The true giant figures in this book are Paul Broca, the mid-nineteenth-century French surgeon, neurologist and anthropologist who discovered that different parts of the brain control different kinds of thinking; Robert Goddard, the father of modern space exploration; and Albert Einstein, whose centennial this is. But Dr. Sagan also acknowledges countless others who have pushed forward the frontiers of knowledge. This is a book on the joys of finding out how the world works, on the romance of the scientific endeavor." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.
Published by The Hearst Corporation, New York, 1982
Seller: Singularity Rare & Fine, Baldwinsville, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: USED_NEARFINE. 1st Edition. Near Fine. See scans and description. New York: The Hearst Corporation, 1982. The August, 1982 issue of Science Digest, Volume 90, Number 8. Quarto, illustrated stapled wraps, 112 pp. Near Fine - very near fine, with just micro points of edge wear and some age-toning to the newsprint portion of the textblock (one section of the pages in Science Digest at this time in its life was printed on newsprint, and invariably shows some modest toning), and that's about it. See scans. See scanned image of contents page for detail on the diversified articles on Eavesdropping on the Universe; Aesthetics of Sex; Firewalking; Hi-Tech Future Cops; Human vs Gorilla DNA; Shuttle Astronauts; Brainflash; Ancient Engineers; Neanderthals; and a whole lot more from 1980s science. See scans. L-p4.
Published by PLANETA, BARCELONA, 1978
ISBN 10: 843203598X ISBN 13: 9788432035982
Seller: LLIBRERIA TECNICA, SABADELL, BCN, Spain
Rústica. Condition: USED_NEARFINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Muy bien. Un mensaje cósmico. La historia del intento más ambicioso de comunicarse con los seres extraterrestres. por el astrónomo Carl Sagan ganador del Premio Pulitzer y autor de Cosmos y sus colaboradores. Libro de ocasión. En buen estado. Editado en Barcelona en el año 1978, con 275 páginas. Tamaño: 20.5x23x2 Peso: 600 gr. No. Libro.
Published by Simon and Schuster, New York, 1985
Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: USED_FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Bacon, Paul (jacket design); Lomberg, Jon (jacket painting); Tsiaras, Alexander (author photograph) (illustrator). Fine condition black boards with gold spine lettering contained in a Very good condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Carl Sagan; Author Dedication and Author's Note. "For centuries humanity has dreamed of life and intelligence beyond the earth; for decades scientists have searched for it in every corner of the sky; for years Project Argus, a vast, sophisticated complex of radio telescopes, has listened for a signal indicating the existence, somewhere in the universe, of extraterrestrial intelligence. Then, one afternoon, the course of human history is changed, abruptly and forever. The Message, awaited for so long, its very possibility doubted by so many, arrives. Contact has been made. Life, intelligence, someone, something beyond Earth, 26 light-years away, in the vicinity of the star Vega, is calling, beaming across space a whilly unexpected message to say that we are not - have never been - alone. In Contact, Carl Sagan, whose Cosmos enthralled millions of readers and television viewers, has brilliantly employed the freedom of fiction to imagine the greatest adventure of all - humanity's first encounter with other intelligent beings. But the novel is not only about contact between humans and extraterrestrials; it is also about contact, down here on Earth, with each other and with ourselves. At its center is a brilliant scientist, Eleanor Arroway, director of Project Argus, who is the first to realize that chapter one of human history is over. It is she who is instrumental in decoding the Message - and in persuading world leaders not to treat it as a threat - she who finds her own life changed by the immense challenge of responding to the Message; she who finally journeys out to experience, in circumstances at once profoundly religious and scientific, the most fateful encounter in human history. Suspenseful, illuminating, rich in human drama and surprise, written with that unique blend of scientific passion and uncompromising intelligence that made Cosmos a worldwide classic.Contact goes far beyond the conventional limits of science fiction. It is a real, moving novel, a work of fiction at once deep and entertaining that carries the reader, like its protagonists, to the stars, without ever making us doubt that this is the way it will be. Not since H.G. Wells has there been a novel that so stunningly combines storytelling power and scientific vision. In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe; in Contact, he predicts its future - and our own." - from the inner front jacket flap.
Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 1985
ISBN 10: 0671434004 ISBN 13: 9780671434007
Seller: Lower Beverley Better Books, Lyndhurst, ON, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: USED_NEARFINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jon Lomberg (cover painting) (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. " Contact has been made. Life, intelligence, someone, something beyond Earth, 26 light-years away, in the vicinity of the star Vega, is calling. . . . " 430 pp. plus Author's Note. Black cloth spine has gold text, dark grey ep's. Spine ends are lightly rubbed, light top edge soiling. Unclipped ($ 18.95) DJ has edge wear around spine ends, light shelf wear. Bookseller's Inventory # 144231,
Published by Random House, 1978
ISBN 10: 0394410475 ISBN 13: 9780394410470
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: USED_NEARFINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Clean, near fine copy in lightly edgeworn dust jacket. Clean, unmarked, and unused.
Published by Random House, New York, 1978
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Condition: UNSPECIFIED. First edition of thisÂfascinating story which covers the story of the interstellar record. Quarto, original cloth. Boldly signed by Carl Sagan on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Aulicino. In 1977, two extraodinary spacecraft called Voyager were launched to the stars. Affixed to each Voyager craft was a gold-coated copper phonograph record as a message to possible extra-terrestrial civilizations that might encounter the spacecraft in some distant space and time. Each record contained 118 photographs of our planet; almost 90 minutes of the world's greatest music; an evolutionary audio essay on "The Sounds of Earth"; and greetings in almost sixty human languages (and one whale language). This book is an account, written by those chiefly responsible for the contents of the Voyager Record, of why they did it, how they selected the repertoire, and precisely what the record contains.
Published by Random House, New York, 1978
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Condition: UNSPECIFIED. First edition of thisÂfascinating story which covers the story of the interstellar record. Quarto, original cloth. Inscribed by both Carl Sagan and Anne Druyan on the half-title page to her family in the year of publication, "Dear Les, Edie, Larry and Erica, With my deep love and wishes of joyful explorations for all of you- And especially to my brother for taking me along on that first flight from home. Annie October 27- 1978." And inscribed "With every good wish from me too. Carl." Stamp on the title page, an excellent exampleÂin a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Aulicino. Rare signed, especially with a familial presentation in the year of publication. In 1977, two extraodinary spacecraft called Voyager were launched to the stars. Affixed to each Voyager craft was a gold-coated copper phonograph record as a message to possible extra-terrestrial civilizations that might encounter the spacecraft in some distant space and time. Each record contained 118 photographs of our planet; almost 90 minutes of the world's greatest music; an evolutionary audio essay on "The Sounds of Earth"; and greetings in almost sixty human languages (and one whale language). This book is an account, written by those chiefly responsible for the contents of the Voyager Record, of why they did it, how they selected the repertoire, and precisely what the record contains.
Published by Random House, New York, 1978
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Condition: UNSPECIFIED. First edition of this fascinating story which covers the story of the interstellar record. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Association copy, lengthily inscribed by both Carl Sagan and Anne Druyan on the half-title page, "For Shirley, With my deep gratitude for contributions numerous, substantive, and spiritual to the success of the project and this book. With love, Carl Sagan" and "Dearest Shirley - There is no one in all the millions of miles that Voyager crosses like you - for all your kindness, your implementation, your goodness - my deep love - I'm so lucky to know you and I treasure our friendship. Annie." The recipient, Sagan's executive assistant Shirley Arden, was instrumental in Saganâs success and handled all travel arrangements and publications in his most illustrious years which saw the Viking landings on Mars, the Cosmos television series, and the Voyager mission. Ann and Carl dedicated their book Comet (1995) to Arden, and she acted as the matron of honor in their wedding. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Aulicino. An exceptional association. In 1977, two extraodinary spacecraft called Voyager were launched to the stars. Affixed to each Voyager craft was a gold-coated copper phonograph record as a message to possible extra-terrestrial civilizations that might encounter the spacecraft in some distant space and time. Each record contained 118 photographs of our planet; almost 90 minutes of the world's greatest music; an evolutionary audio essay on "The Sounds of Earth"; and greetings in almost sixty human languages (and one whale language). This book is an account, written by those chiefly responsible for the contents of the Voyager Record, of why they did it, how they selected the repertoire, and precisely what the record contains.