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Stephen Hawking (1942-2018).

A Brief History of Time. From the Big Bang to Black Holes. New York: Bantam Books, 1988.

First American edition with authorial thumbprint of Hawking's bestselling science classic. A fine copy, 'signed' with an authorial thumbprint on front free endpaper.

Octavo (230 x 153mm). Text-illustrations. Publisher's black quarter cloth, blue pictorial dustjacket. Provenance: Judy Fella (Hawking's first secretary, and later PA and nursing coordinator: Fella worked with Hawking on the first draft of A Brief History of Time).



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