Author: CALDER, NIGEL
Title: Robots [ Progress of Science Series ]
Description: London, Phoenix House Ltd. 1958, First (& 0nly?) Edition. Boards, 8vo. Hardback, 145mm x 220mm tall (5.5" x 8.75" approx.). 60pp with 8 drawings in the text, plus a photo frontispiece plate and 16 more plates with a total of 24 further b/w photographs. Very good, in the original red boards/silver spine title, and with the unclipped but somewhat edge-rubbed, photo-illustrated [with a b/w picture of Robby the Robot in the film "The Forbidden Planet"], yellow & black-printed pink dust-wrapper. Very Good/Rubbed D/w.

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