Description and condition:

Black boards hardback, dustcover, 8vo, 223pp, b/w and colour illustrations.

Very good with nice clean pages, small bump to bottom corner. In very good dustcover.

Contents:

The world of the planets: its design and inhabitants; exploration by spacecraft; the moon: our nearest celestial neighbour; Mercury and Pluto: the sentinels of the solar system; Mars: the portrait of a midi-planet; micro-planets: asteroids and lesser denizens of interplanetary space; Venus: the veiled planet; our Earth: the queen of the terrestrial planets