Description
Signed first edition, first printing of Intelligent Life in the Universe by Carl Sagan, in collaboration with Iosef S. Shklovskii.
Octavo, xiv, [2], 509pp. Full red cloth, title in black and gilt on spine. No additional printings listed on copyright page. Solid text block, a truly fine copy. In the publisher’s dust jacket, no retail price listed, shelf worn, with a thin blue line to front panel. Archival tape on the verso, reinforcing chipping at the head of the spine. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell, title in gilt on black morocco spine.
Signed by Carl Sagan on the half-title page.
The majority of Carl Sagan’s career was spent researching the cosmos, with a focus on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). Intelligent Life in the Universe builds on a previous publication by Shklovskii, translated to English for the first time here as “Universe, Life, Mind”. The book contains Shklovskii’s research and analysis, additional commentary by Sagan, and original figures by Sagan. The two men collaborated entirely by mail between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
