Halley's Comet Pop-Up Book by Moore, Patrick & Couper, Heather:

Deans International 1st 1985 . 4to, glazed pictorial boards. Fully working. F 520 gms.

Deans International Publishing, London, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover (Laminated Boards). Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Paul Doherty -Illustrator & Vic Duppa-Whyte – Paper Engineering. Pop-Up Introduction by authors. The text is illustrated by Paul Doherty, and the paper engineering for the pop-ups has been created by Vic Duppa-Whyte. Colour laminated boards with yellow, white and pink coloured titles to the front panel and yellow, white and blue coloured titles to the backstrip. The most predictable and famous comet in our part of the galaxy is one named after Edmond Halley in 1682 – after realising it had been the same comet that had been seen in 1607 and 1531. The comet has been seen since at least 240 BCE, but certainly since 87 BCE. It's sightings are 76 years apart and the last sighting was in 1985 / 1986. To celebrate this event this pop up book was created. Minor rubbing of the book corners and of the panels. All of the pop-ups and paper engineered… Read More

London & New York: Hamlyn Publishing Group Limited. Very Good+. 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. 0603004466 . Clean pictorial paper covered boards. Text tight, clean & intact, all moveable parts in good order. Illustrated in color. Children, Pop-up; 8vo .

London: Deans International Publishing. Very Good. 1985. 1st. Hardcover. 0603004466 . Book is in pristine condition. Probably bought and stored. A pop-up book on Halley's comet, giving information about its location, orbit, history and future, and about the various spaceprobes sent up in 1986 to study it. Includes a pop-up telescope and mini film strip. ; Pop-Up; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

Hamlyn: Deans Internatinal, 1985. Paper engineering by Vic Duppa-Whyte. Five double-page pop-ups in full colour with Introduction, historical notes, star map, countdown to comet Halley from 1982, about the comet; the Space probes, path of Halley's Comet about the sun, 1948-2024. Illustrated laminated boards. The book was prepared for the 1985-1986 visit of Halley's Comet and shows the way the space probes were designed to meet the comet and move about it, as well as the comet's orbit in relation to the earth and the other planets. A pop-up telescope is included and a film strip, showing an artist's impressions of points in the comet's progress. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Paul Doherty. 4to.

London: Deans International. New. 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. 603004466 .

Deans International Publishing, 1985. Hardcover. Very Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes Email or call for further information.