Description
For sale: a rare and exceptional first hardcover edition with a remainder mark, second printing of Contact by Carl Sagan. First Edition unstated, 1980 Random House. Second printing with complete number line B 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 and no First Edition statement.
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, cloth boards, strong title ink on the straight spine, clean page block, tight binding, mild spine tilt, rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and lightly rubbed corners. The interior of the book is also in Near Fine condition with no marks, inscriptions, or any other signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright.
The dust jacket is in Very Good condition with mild surface wear, heavy edge and seam wear and the $15.00 price on the front flap. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
Cosmos is the story of our long journey of discovery and the forces and individuals who helped to shape modern science, including Democritus, Hypatia, Kepler, Newton, Huy-gens, Champollion, Lowell and Humason. Sagan looks at our planet from an extra-terrestrial vantage point and sees a blue jewel-like world, inhabited by a lifeform that is just beginning to discover its own unity and to ven-ture into the vast ocean of space.
Ships promptly in a secure mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.
