First edition. 8vo. xiii, [1], 505, [1] pp. Original yellow cloth, spine lettered in gilt on green ground, dust jacket (contents clean and fresh; minor shelf wear to extremities of jacket, otherwise an excellent copy). Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1979.
From the library the British physicist Dennis W. Sciama (1926-1999), with his neat ownership inscription to the front free endpaper. Sciama is best-known for his contributions to the fields of astrophysics and cosmology as well for having supervised Stephen Hawking’s doctorate thesis on Properties of Expanding Universes (1966).
