Wrightwood Friends of the Library

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05/29/2024

Our JUNE SILENT AUCTION Starts TOMORROW AT 3pm!

SPACE EXPLORATION IS THE EXCITING THEME

Starts Wednesday May 29th 2024 3:00 PM
Ends Wednesday June 26th 2024 3:00 PM
1. Note: Each book has its own bidding page with book title in bottom right corner and book description on back.

2. When you increase any bid, the bid must increase by at least $1.00.

3. If you want to look at a book, please let staff know. We’re happy to have you examine the books.

HERE ARE THE SELECTED TREASURES AND OPENING BIDS. COME INTO THE LIBRARY SOON! 6011 Pine St; (760) 249-4577

1. KOSMOS: A PORTRAIT OF THE RUSSIAN SPACE AGE by Adam Bartos 1. KOSMOS: A PORTRAIT OF THE RUSSIAN SPACE AGE by Adam Bartos
Published by Princeton Architectural Press, $10.
2. EARTH FROM SPACE: SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM by Andrew Johnston Published by Firefly Books, 2004 $10

3. TOTALITY: The Great American Eclipses of 2017 and 2024 by Mark Littmann & Fred Espenak Published by Oxford Press. First Edition printed 2017; Reprint 2017 $10

4.THE HUBBLE COSMOS: 25 YEARS OF NEW VISTAS IN SPACE by David H. Dovorkin & Robert W. Smith by David H. Dovorkin & Robert W. Smith, Published by National Geographic, 2015 $15

5. BEYOND: VISIONS OF THE INTERPLANETARY PROBES by Michael Benson Published by Harry N. Abrams, 2003 $16

05/29/2024

#5 JUNE 2024 SILENT BOOK AUCTION
BEYOND: VISIONS OF THE INTERPLANETARY PROBES by Michael Benson
Published by Harry N. Abrams, 2003 ISBN: 9780810945319 / 0810945312
Near fine Non-Fiction Hardcover. Has been read; without blemishes. 321 pages with page marker ribbon
Space photography; Space probes; Outer space – Exploration
Since the 1960s the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has been sending unmanned satellites to explore the planets, moons, and sun. These probes have amassed a stunning visual record of other worlds, revealing not one but scores of new frontiers, from rust-red Mars to the ethereal rings of Saturn.
Author Michael Benson has spent years compiling and digitally processing the best of these images. In Beyond this "deskbound cosmic pilgrim" (Atlantic Monthly) has pulled together the most spectacular of them into one volume that presents these photographs for the first time as art. The resulting book consists of two parts: the first is a spectacular visual tour of the solar system, with views every bit as compelling as the work of the great landscape photographers on earth; the second is a series of beautifully written essays that explain the story behind these photographs: the history of the probes' journeys, how they work, and why they were built. This book shows us how modern science has revealed the astonishing beauty and mystery of the solar system and its awe-inspiring worlds far beyond any places human beings have ever directly observed. (Amazon)