220pp. Octavo [19.5 cm] Black cloth over boards. The pages are age toned. In an attractive price-clipped dust jacket, with minor edge wear. Ex-libris UFO enthusiast George W. Earley, with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Earley was a U.S. engineer and editor. He was involved in science fiction fandom during the 1940s. He is the author of "Encounters with Aliens: UFOs and Alien Beings in Science Fiction." Illustrated by Chesley Bonestell. From the dust jacket- "Astronomer-physicist Kenneth Heuer opens his challenging book with an absorbing account of the various legends and theories about the world's end. He then explores the scientific possibilities among the ways the world can end: comet collisions; moon, asteroid and star collisions; the death of the sun; the explosion of the sun; atomic war. This last is given particularly thoughtful attention.".

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Bibliographic Details

Title

The End of the World: A Scientific Inquiry

Publisher

Rinehart & Company, New York and Toronto

Publication Date

1953

Binding

Hardcover

Illustrator

Chesley Bonestell

Edition

First edition.

Condition

Very good

Dust Jacket Condition

very good

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Metaphysics & Hermetica

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Ken Sanders Rare Books is a full-service antiquarian bookshop in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. We are a nearly 5,000 square foot bookshop and have approximately 125,000 books. We carry fine and used books in all fields.

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Dream Garden Press dba Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
209 E 500 S, Salt Lake City, UT, 84111, U.S.A.

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