The Cosmic Connection

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc. | Anchor Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/Fair. Produced by Jerome Agel. Signed by Sagan on the front endpaper. Fair in a Fair jacket, unclipped ($7.95), heavily soiled, chips and creases throughout, some tape repairs on the verso. Black cloth, faded at the edges, with gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square, bound with some reading wear, foxed at the edges, signs of moisture damage at the bottom and inside the board, ownership signature of Tom Benson above Sagan's. Writing for a general audience, Sagan "describes the quest for life out there and relates the new astronomical discoveries to the deepest human problems." Cited as one of the greatest science books of all-time by Discover Magazine.