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Nanaimo Astronomy Society - Book Collection List Nanaimo Astronomy Society - Book Collection List Title Author Publisher Place of Publication Editor Copyright Date Edition Category Language Translator Cover Type Pages Condition Shelf Location Notes Mark R. National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Night Chartrand; Wil Alfred A. Knopf, Sky Tirion Inc. New York, USA 1997 Field Guide English soft pocketbook 714 excellent 1 Mark R. Chartrand III; Western Publishing SKYGUIDE Helmut Wimmer Company, Inc. Racine Wisconsin, USA 1982 Field Guide English soft pocketbook 280 good 2 stain on front cover Ian Nicolson; Grosset & Dunlap, General Astronomy Gordon Davies Inc. New York, USA 1971 knowledge English soft pocketbook 159 good 3 Hubert J. Bernhard, Dorothy A. Bennett, Hugh McGraw-Hill Book General NEW HANDBOOK OF THE HEAVENS S. Rice Company, Inc. New York, USA 1948 knowledge English soft pocketbook 272 good 4 General Frontier to Space Eric Burgess Collier Books New York, USA 1962 First knowledge English soft pocketbook 190 good 5 The New American Library of World General Frontiers of ASTRONOMY Fred Hoyle Literature, Inc. New York, USA 1955 knowledge English soft pocketbook 317 good 6 Bungay, Suffolk, Great The Face of the Sun H.W. Newton Penguin Books Ltd Britain 1958 Sun English soft pocketbook 208 fair 7 yellowed pages General Space Research by Rocket and Satellite R.L.F. Boyd Arrow Books Ltd Great Britain 1960 knowledge English soft pocketbook 128 good 8 CELESTIAL OBJECTS FOR COMMON Dover Publications, Sixth - Volume The Solar TELESCOPES T.W. Webb Inc. New York, USA 1962 1 System English soft handbook 255 good 9 CELESTIAL OBJECTS FOR COMMON Dover Publications, Sixth - Volume Coffee stains on inside TELESCOPES T.W. Webb Inc. New York, USA 1962 2 The Stars English soft handbook 351 good 10 cover Terence Camden House soft coil bound NIGHTWATCH Dickinson Publishing Ltd. Camden, ON Canada 1983 Equinox Guide English album 159 good 11 Edmund Scientific PHOTOGRAPHY with your TELESCOPE Co. New Jersey, NY, USA 1966 Reference English soft cover pad 35 good 12 Lowell House/NTC /Contemporary YOUR GUIDE TO THE SKY Rick Shaffer Publishing Group Chicago, ILL, USA 1999 Third Observer Manual English soft bound book 180 very good 13 Harlow Shapley, Cecilia Payne- Harvard University General Galaxies Gaposchkin Press Cambridge, MASS, USA 1975 Third knowledge English soft bound book 232 well worn 14 permanent bend Bart J. Bok, Harvard University General The Milky Way Priscilla F. Bok Press Cambridge, MASS, USA 1976 Fourth knowledge English soft bound book 273 well worn 15 George J McLeod, Astronomy - RED GIANTS AND WHITE DWARFS Robert Jastrow Limited Toronto, ON, Canada 1990 Popular works English soft bound book 269 good 16 Dover Bay Secondary Stephen Hawking, Leonard Unified field Mlodinow, Peter The Random House theories - Donated by: Kim THE GRAND DESIGN Bollinger Publishing Group New York, USA 2010 Popular works English soft bound book 199 excellent 17 Reinson. On loan G.W. Swenson, Pachart Publishing Radio An Amateur Radio Telescope Jr. House Tucson, AZ, USA Eric R. Craine 1980 Astronomy English soft bound book 58 poor 18 spine damaged Blue Ridge Summit, PA, Radio Radio Astronomy for the Amateur Dave Heiserman Tab Books USA 1975 First Astronomy English soft bound book 251 fair 19 permanent bend Alex G. Smth, D. Van Nostrand Edward U. Radio Radio Exploration of the Planetary System Thomas D. Carr Company, Inc. Princeton, NJ, USA Condon 1964 Astronomy English soft bound book 148 fair 20 yellowed pages Solar flares - THE HANDBOOK OF SOLAR FLARE Blue Ridge Summit, PA, Observers' MONITORING & PROPAGATION FORECASTINGCarl M. Chernan Tab Books USA 1978 First manual English soft bound book 194 fair 21 Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Radio Radio Astronomy F. Graham Smith Penguin Books Ltd Great Britain 1960 Astronomy English soft pocketbook 264 good 22 RADIO ASTRONOMY and how to build your own Telescope TELESCOPE John Heywood ARC Books, Inc. New York, USA 1963 Making English soft pocketbook 159 good 23 cloth bound book Cammile Astronomy - hard cover coffee w/torn plastic sleeve or The Flammarion Book of ASTRONOMY Flammarion Simon & Schuster New York, USA 1964 Popular works English table book 670 good 24 jacket cloth bound book Astronomy - w/plastic sleeve. Cover Observers' insert: From the books observational astronomy for amateurs J.B. Sidgwick Enslow Publishers Hillside, NJ, NY, USA 1957 Fourth Manual English hard cover small 348 good 25 of: Ray L. Murtsett. cloth bound book Robert S. McGraw-Hill Book w/worn glossy paper The Fascinating World of Astronomy Richardson Company, Inc. New York, USA 1960 English hard cover small 274 poor 26 sleeve Frank W. Hyde, Radio cloth bound book w/ RADIO ASTRONOMY for Amateurs Ralph Goring Lutterworth Press London, Great Britain 1962 Astronomy English hard cover small 236 good 27 paper sleeve The Invisible Universe Revealed The Story of RadioGerrit L. Springer-Verlag Radio hard glossy cover Astronomy Verschuur New York Inc. New York, USA 1987 Astronomy English hard cover small 262 very good 28 paper bound hard cover glossy paper bound w/plastic Lerner Publications sleeve. Dover Bay COMET WATCH The Return of Halley's Comet Frank H. Winter Company Minneapolis, MI, USA 1986 Comets English hard cover small 64 very good 29 Secondary hard cover cloth bound w/ glossy sleeve. W W Norton & Astronomy - Some de-markations UNTIL THE SUN DIES Robert Jastrow Company Inc. New York, USA 1977 Popular works English hard cover small 172 fair 30 and highlighted text. hard cover pressed THE SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL Thomas R. John Wiley & Sons, Life on other paper bound w/glossy INTELLIGENCE Listening for life in the cosmos McDonough Inc. Toronto, ON, Canada David Sobel 1987 planets English hard cover medium 244 excellent 31 sleeve hard cover pressed paper bound w/glossy THE ASTRONOMERS Companion book to the Astronomy - sleeve. Dover Bay PBS television series Donald Goldsmith St. Martin's Press New York, USA 1991 Popular works English hard cover medium 332 excellent 32 Secondary hard cover paper bound w/glossy paper Brad D. Wallis, Cambridge Astronomical sleeve. Property of A manual of advanced celestial photography Robert W. Provin University Press Cambridge, NY, USA 1988 photography English hard cover medium 388 excellent 33 Ray L. Murtsell. hard cover pressed cloth bound w/glossy plastic sleeve. Cambridge Astronomical Property of Ray L. ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY FOR THE AMATEUR Michael Covington University Press Cambridge, NY, USA 1985 photography English hard cover medium 168 excellent 34 Murtsell. Planets - hard cover pressed Photographs cloth bound w/glossy THE PLANETS A Journey Into Space Eric Flaum Crescent Books New York, USA 1988 from space English hard cover large 143 excellent 35 plastic sleeve. hard cover pressed Astronomy paper bound w/glossy SEEING the SOLAR SYSTEM Telescopic Fred Schaaf, John Wiley & Sons, projects - paper sleeve. Property Projects, Activities & Explorations in Astronomy Doug Myers Inc. Toronto, ON, Canada 1991 popular works English hard cover large 208 excellent 36 of Ray Murtsell. Wayland Solar System glossy hard cover. THE SOLAR SYSTEM Robin Kerrod (Publishers) Ltd Hove East Sussex, England 1990 The English hard cover large 48 excellent 37 Dover Bay Secondary Library of Congress w/glossy plastic Cataloging-in-Publication Planets - sleeve. Dover Bay MARS James A. Corrick Franklin Watts Data 1991 Juvenile literatureEnglish hard cover medium 128 very good 38 Secondary Comets. VOYAGE THROUGH THE UNIVERSE COMETS, Time-Life Asteroids. ASTEROIDS, AND METEORITES Joseph J. Ward Alexandria, VG, USA Books 1990 Meteorites. English hard cover large 144 good 39 Dover Bay Secondary Morrow Junior Planet Neptune - Dover Bay Secondary. NEPTUNE Seymour Simon Books New York, USA 1991 Juvenile literatureEnglish hard cover large good 40 Plastic sleeve is worn. CANADIAN SPACEWALKERS Hadfield, MacLean Douglas and and Williams Remember the Ultimate High Mcintyre (2013) Pg 80/81 torn. On Adventure Bob McDonald Ltd. Canada Ian Whitelaw 2014 Astronauts English hard cover medium 202 damaged 41 loan. British VIOLENT UNIVERSE an eye-witness account of Broadcasting Astronomy - the new astronomy Nigel Calder Corporation Warwickshire, England 1969 Popular works English hard cover medium 160 good 42 Glossy sleeve Journey to the Center of Our Galaxy A Voyage in Contemporary Glossy sleeve. On Space and Time Joel Davis Books Inc. Chicago, ILL, USA 1991 Milky Way English hard cover medium 335 good 43 loan. McGraw-Hill Book Radio Radio Astronomy John D. Kraus Company, Inc. USA 1966 Astronomy English hard cover medium 486 good 44 Planet Guides COMETS, ASTEROIDS and Marshall Cavendish Dover Bay Secondary METEORITES Duncan Brewer Limited 1992 North Bellmore, NY, USA 1992 Planet Guide English hard cover medium 63 good 45 donation Marshall Cavendish Pg 9/10 rip in Dover Bay Secondary Planet Guides MERCURY AND THE SUN Duncan Brewer Limited 1992 North Bellmore, NY, USA 1992 Planet Guide English hard cover medium 63 bottom 46 donation Planet Guides THE OUTER PLANETS URANUS, Marshall Cavendish Dover Bay Secondary NEPTUNE, PLUTO Duncan Brewer Limited 1992 North Bellmore, NY, USA 1992 Planet Guide English hard cover medium 63 good 47 donation PLANETARY EXPLORATION OUR SUN AND BLA Publishing Juvenile Dover Bay Secondary THE INNER PLANETS Don Davis Limited New York, NY, USA 1989 Literature English hard cover medium 45 good 48 donation Don Davis and Ian BLA Publishing Juvenile Dover Bay Secondary PLANETARY EXPLORATION SATURN Halliday Limited New York, NY, USA 1989 Literature English hard cover medium 45 fair 49 donation The Wayland Library of Science and Technology Wayland Dover Bay Secondary STARS AND GALAXIES Robin Kerrod (Publishers) Ltd East Sussex, England 1990 Astronomy English hard cover medium 48 good 50 donation Planets- Ray Exploration, SPACE EXPLORATION EXPLORING THE Spangenburg, Solar System- Dover Bay Secondary REACHES OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM Diane Moser Facts On File, Inc. New York, NY, USA 1990 Exploration English hard cover medium 109 good 51 donation Planets- Ray Exploration, SPACE EXPLORATION EXPLORING THE Spangenburg, Solar System- Dover Bay Secondary REACHES OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM Diane Moser Facts On File, Inc.
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