Dynamics of Stellar Systems

New York: The Macmillan Company / A Pergamon Press Book, 1965. Very Good EX-LIBRARY. Corners are NOT bumped. WITHDRAWN stamp, and a few other library markings on the endpapers. Text pages are clean, crisp, and unmarked. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Bound in the original bright blue cloth, lettered in silver over a dark blue panel on the spine (some of the spine lettering is rubbed/flaking off). Translated from the Russian by J. B. Sykes. Translation edited by Arthur Beer. Illustrated with figures in the text, and 28 plates (various galaxy photos) on glossy paper. Contains an Introduction and ten major sections, as follows: 1) The Fundamental Concepts of Stellar Statistics; 2) The Kinematics of Stellar Systems; 3) The Elementary Theory of Galactic Rotation; 4) Irregular Forces in Stellar Systems; 5) Statistical Stellar Dynamics Neglecting Encounters; 6) Regular Orbits of Stars; 7) The Problem of Local Dynamics; 8) Dynamics of Centroids; 9) Dynamics of Spherical Stellar Systems; 10) Dynamics of Rotating Stellar Systems. Tables. Graphs. Bibliographical references. Subject Index. Index of Galaxies. . First Edition in English. Hardcover. Very Good EX-LIBRARY/No Jacket. 8vo. xii, 359pp.…