Harold Urey, The Planets, Yale University Press 1952, Very Good hardcover

Urey, Harold, The Planets: Their Origin and Development, New Haven: Yale University Press 1952, English, Very Good hardcover 8vo, 6 ½” x 9 ¼”, 245 pp.

Black cloth boards, title stamped in gilt to spine, minor toning to interior page edges, in Very Good sharp pictorial yellow and black dust jacket with minor chipping to tail and minor interior staining. The Yale Silliman Memorial Lecture by Nobel Prize winner Urey extensively detailing the origin and composition of the Solar System, the Moon, and chemical processes during the formation of the terrestrial planets. With 16 illustrations including a large foldout Moon diagram inserted at rear.