Stephen Hawking (1942-2018) and M. Rocek (editors).

Superspace and Supergravity: Proceedings of the Nuffield Workshop, Cambridge June 16-July 12, 1980. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.

First edition, inscribed on the title page in Hawking's own hand. This is a collection of dense mathematical papers given at a workshop on supergravity organized by Hawking. The dustjacket reproduces a blackboard covered with doodles by Martin Rocek and other attendees at the Nuffield Workshop, including a caricature of Hawking himself: the blackboard itself remained in Hawking's office in Cambridge until his death. A near-fine copy of the first edition.

Octavo (226 x 152mm). Pp. 125 and 229 with small post-it notes attached in margins. Publisher's maroon cloth, lettered in silver on spine, original pictorial dustjacket (cloth with tiny insignificant mark hear head of spine else fine, dustjacket just a trifle rubbed at extremities, else near-fine). Provenance: authorial inscription on flyleaf – Judy Fella (Hawking's first secretary and later PA and nursing co-ordinator: Fella typed up some of the manuscript for this work, and is depicted, as 'one of the Fella's', in the cover artwork; presentation inscription to 'Eric' dated 11 May 1981).

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